Shoot Don't Shoot ANNOTATION
Determined to learn her trade, newly-elected Sheriff Joanna Brady enlists at a Phoenix-based police academy for training. But when a vicious serial killer murders Joanna's female classmate, Joanna becomes embroiled in the desperate hunt to find him. National ads/media.
FROM THE PUBLISHER
An assassin's bullet shattered Joanna Brady's world, leaving herpoliceman husband to die in the Arizona desert. But the young widowfought back the only way she knew how: by bringing the killers tojustice...and winning herself a job as Cochise County Sheriff.Shoot/Don't ShootStill mourning her loss, Joanna Brady needs to be strongand supportive for her nine-year-old daughter, Jenny. She also hasresponsibilities to the people who elected her Sheriff. Joanna has thehead and instinct for her new job, but not the experience — whichis what brings her to Phoenix for a pre-Thanksgiving crash course inpolice training...and into the mystery of an imprisoned husbandher gut tells her did not murder his estranged wife. SuddenlySheriff Brady has a lot more to worry about than classes and thevisiting family pre-holiday chaos. For her impromptu investigationis drawing a serial killer too close for comfort — and closer,worse still, to Joanna's little girl.
Author Biography: J.A. Jance is the American Mystery Award-winning author of the popular J.P. Beaumont mystery series as well as eight mysteries featuring Joanna Brady. Born in South Dakota and brought up in Bisbee, Arizona, Jance lives with her husband in Seattle, Washington.
FROM THE CRITICS
Publishers Weekly
Third installment in Jance's Joanna Brady series. (Oct.)
Library Journal
Sheriff Joanna Brady chases a serial killer in this latest from the popular author of Lying in Wait (Morrow, 1994).
School Library Journal
YA-Jance, as usual, has written a good mystery while maintaining her strong sense of characterization. Joanna Brady, newly elected sheriff of Cochise County, Arizona, is the single mother of a nine-year-old daughter. Her husband, a policeman, was killed in the line of duty. In this latest story, Joanna goes to Phoenix for a training session at the Police Academy, where she becomes involved with a series of murders of abused women. When her suitemate becomes a victim, Joanna becomes more than just professionally involved. Joanna Brady is a strong female model for YAs. She has doubts, but in the end she resolves them to the best of her ability.-Susan B. McFaden, Fairfax County Public Library, VA
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