Fire and Ice

one of many brady and beau series that I absolutely love to read. I thought I read them all but I missed the one where Joanna and butch got together. I knew see went to see him at the end of one of her books but I am researching so I can buy the one in between. I really thought she would end up with beaumont. I love this book it was like reading 2 stories at the same time and yet I was able to keep up. nice work J.A. Jance

This was a brand new book that just came out. The price was reasonable. Very exciting.

I just finished J.A. Jance's Fire and Ice. I loved it. That's because I love the Joanna Brady series and I'm in love with J.P. Beaumont. When they get together to solve a mystery it's going to be solved. But wait! For most of the book Beau is working on a murder in Seattle and Joanna is working on a murder in Arizona. How are they connected and how do these sleuths get together? I'm afraid you'll have to read the book. Fire and Ice: A Beaumont and Brady Novel

I live in Arizona and am very familiar with Bisbee and Tucson. I can always visualize the story line as it pertains to Southern Arizona. The JP Beaumont character is superb and I love his attitude about life as he matures. This was well written and tying the details of the murder victims, crimes commited, and individual relationships of the characters between Washington and Arizona was superb. However, I am getting burnt out on Sherriff Brady's machoism as it pertains to her officers and solving the pertinent novel's crime plot. Thank God her mother's character was not part of this novel or I would not have purchased the book. In the future, I will only read Jance's novels pertaining to Beaumont and new character Ali Reynolds.

A woman is found murdered in a dense forested area by Cle Elum. J. P. Beaumont investigates. Five other women have been found similarly, but this one had her teeth. Might be the big break in the case. She is identified as Marina Aguirre (aka Marcella Andrade) missing from Bisbee, AZ. This brings in Joanna Brady. One of Joanna's homicide detectives is the missing woman's sister. Joanna's office is investigating a suspicious hit and run accident in an out-of-the way ATV recreation spot. It is later thought that the two cases are connected. Joanna is also involved in a hotly contested abuse case at an Alzheimer's home where a patient went missing and a mysterious death occurred. A couple of bodies need to be exhumed to solve this case. Marina/Marcella might have worn expensive clothing, boots and jewelry, but she worked at Denny's. She lived in a trailer park that was in reality a halfway house owned by a benevolent former hooker with HIV, who won the Powerball and lives in a mega-mansion. Marina/Marcella stole $50,000 from a drug cartel and left her son in Arizona. The investigations switch between Seattle and Arizona and Beau and Brady. They interact mostly via phone. I love both of these series and really enjoyed this book pairing the two investigators. I'd like to see more books done in this format. I think having a series where both investigators are involved would be great. I like where Beau is in his life now. And Brady really has her department working well and her homelife as well. That's why I think it would work to pair the two investigators together. They're both secure in their lives. I like the two locales as well. I am from Washington State so I recognize most of the locations. I like Arizona and would love to go back some day for a visit. I highly recommend this book and both series.