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J.A. Jance
  • Bibliography:
    80 Books (6 Series)
  • First Book:
    July 1985
  • Latest Book:
    April 2025
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About the Author

J.A. Jance was born October 27, 1944 in South Dakota and raised in Bisbee, Arizona. She was the first in her family to attend a four-year college. She graduated with a degree in English and Secondary Education. She also went on to receive her M.Ed. in Library Science. She briefly taught high school before becoming a K-12 librarian. Throughout college she wanted to be a writer, but was thwarted by a provincial professor who frowned upon female writers. Her first husband, an alcoholic writer, also dismissed her desire to write. After his death, she began writing again in the wee hours of the morning before the demands of single motherhood began for the day. In 1985, her first Detective Beaumont book was published. Since then she has remarried a wonderful and supportive man and become a successful author.

Full Series List in Order

Ali Reynolds

1 - Edge of Evil (Jan-2006)
2 - Web of Evil (Jan-2007)
3 - Hand of Evil (Dec-2007)
4 - Cruel Intent (Dec-2008)
5 - Trial by Fire (Dec-2009)
6 - Fatal Error (Feb-2011)
7 - Left for Dead (Feb-2012)
8 - Deadly Stakes (Feb-2013)
9 - Moving Target (Feb-2014)
9.5 - A Last Goodbye (Nov-2014)
10 - Cold Betrayal (Mar-2015)
10.5 - No Honor Among Thieves (Nov-2015)
11 - Claw Back (Mar-2016)
11.5 - Random Acts (Aug-2016)
12 - Man Overboard (Mar-2017)
13 - Duel to the Death (Mar-2018)
14 - The A List (Apr-2019)
14.5 - Taking the Veil (Jul-2019)
15 - Credible Threat (Jun-2020)
16 - Unfinished Business (Jun-2021)
17 - Collateral Damage (Mar-2023)
18 - OverKill (Apr-2025)

A Beaumont and Walker Novel

0.5 - Stand Down (Jul-2015)
1 - Dance of the Bones (Sep-2015)

A Brady and Walker Novel

1 - Blessing of the Lost Girls (Sep-2023)

J.P. Beaumont

0.5 - Ring In the Dead (Jul-2013)
1 - Until Proven Guilty (Jul-1985)
2 - Injustice for All (May-1986)
3 - Trial by Fury (Dec-1986)
4 - Taking the Fifth (Jun-1987)
5 - Improbable Cause (Feb-1988)
6 - A More Perfect Union (Nov-1988)
7 - Dismissed With Prejudice (Jun-1989)
8 - Minor in Possession (Apr-1990)
9 - Payment in Kind (Mar-1991)
10 - Without Due Process (Dec-1992)
11 - Failure to Appear (Oct-1993)
12 - Lying in Wait (Jun-1994)
13 - Name Withheld (Jan-1996)
14 - Breach of Duty (Feb-1999)
15 - Birds of Prey (Feb-2001)
16 - Partner in Crime (Aug-2002)
17 - Long Time Gone (Aug-2005)
18 - Justice Denied (Aug-2007)
19 - Fire and Ice (Aug-2009)
20 - Betrayal of Trust (Jul-2011)
21 - Second Watch (Sep-2013)
21.5 - Stand Down (Jul-2015)
21.5 - Still Dead (Aug-2017)
22 - Dance of the Bones (Sep-2015)
23 - Proof of Life (Sep-2017)
24 - Sins of the Fathers (Sep-2019)
25 - Nothing to Lose (Mar-2022)
25.5 - Girls' Night Out (Jul-2024)
26 - Den of Iniquity (Sep-2024)

Joanna Brady

1 - Desert Heat (Feb-1993)
2 - Tombstone Courage (Jun-1994)
3 - Shoot/Don't Shoot (Jun-1995)
4 - Dead to Rights (Sep-1996)
5 - Skeleton Canyon (Jul-1997)
6 - Rattlesnake Crossing (Aug-1998)
7 - Outlaw Mountain (Jul-1999)
8 - Devil's Claw (Jul-2000)
9 - Paradise Lost (Aug-2001)
10 - Partner in Crime (Aug-2002)
11 - Exit Wounds (Aug-2003)
12 - Dead Wrong (Aug-2006)
13 - Damage Control (Aug-2008)
14 - Fire and Ice (Aug-2009)
15 - Judgment Call (Jul-2012)
15.5 - The Old Blue Line (Jul-2014)
16 - Remains of Innocence (Jul-2014)
16.5 - Random Acts (Aug-2016)
17 - Downfall (Sep-2016)
18 - Field of Bones (Sep-2018)
19 - Missing and Endangered (Feb-2021)
20 - Dance of the Bones (Sep-2015)

Walker Family

1 - Hour of the Hunter (Nov-1991)
2 - Kiss of the Bees (Jan-2000)
3 - Day of the Dead (Jul-2004)
4 - Queen of the Night (Aug-2010)
5 - Dance of the Bones (Sep-2015)
6 - Blessing of the Lost Girls (Sep-2023)

Book List in Order: 80 titles



  • SUFFER THE LITTLE CHILDREN The little girl was found murdered, her pink nightgown twisted around her throat. She was only five. The woman who came to the funeral to throw a single rose on the coffin was very much alive ...and beautiful. The kind of ...



  • VENGEANCE IS MINE The blonde on the beach was screaming. A dead man lay at her feet. It didn't take Detective J.P. Beaumont long to find out that the man had been murdered, and that both the lady and the corpse were members of the State Parole Board...



  • THE EVIL THAT MEN DO The body lay- amid the garbage behind a Seattle grocery store--a tall. well-built male--dead. Detective J.P Beaumont's twenty years on the force had given him a sixth sense about people--especially guilty ones. So when he foun...



  • "WE HAVE A BINGO" At first, the cops had little to go on -- a paycheck stub from Starlight Productions, a matchbook from the Edgewater Inn. Oh, and a body. Definitely male and decidedly dead, covered with strange little puncture wounds. Then they sh...



  • A NEW TWIST TO JUSTICE The dentist was sitting bolt upright. Mouth opened wide. Stone-cold dead. There was no lack of suspects--the brutalized wife, the pretty, sexually abused dental assistant, an ex-con who was a very intimate friend of the wido...



  • A LESS THAN PERFECT CRIME The front-page photo was a gruesome heartstopper--a young woman plunging from a skeletal skyscraper, sheer horror frozen on her beautiful face. An accident? Suicide? Detective J.P. Beaumont didn't think so. Especially whe...



  • THE MARK OF A CARELESS KILLER Tadeo Kurobashi loved poetry, studied Samurai history, and operated his own software company. When they found him dead on the floor with a Samurai sword by his hand, it looked like hara-kiri. Except for one thing. An ...



  • A STIFF SHOT OF MURDER The Arizona alcohol rehab ranch was no picnic for J. P Beaumont. First they stuck him in a room with a sleazy, teenage drug dealer named Joey Rothman. Then they sicked the local law on him when the punk was discovered shot d...



  • AN EDUCATION IN DEATH The bloody corpses stashed in the broom closet of the Seattle School District building were lovingly entwined. It looked like a classic crime of passion to Detective J.P Beaumont--especially when Pete Kelsey admitted that his...






  • THE HUNTER IS FREE TO KILL AGAIN - AND HOUR BY HOUR, HE DRAWS CLOSER... The brilliant psychopath Andrew Carlisle spent only six years in prison for the brutal torture-murder of a young girl of the Tohono O'otham tribe. The testimony of Diana Ladd...



  • A maniac broke into the home of Officer Benjamin Harrison Weston--then brutally snuffed the model cop, his wife and his children. But five-year-old "Junior" Weston was hiding in a closet...and somehow avoided the psycho's bloody blade. Everyone lo...



  • A DEPUTY SHERIFF LIES DYING BENEATH THE BLISTERING ARIZONA SUN -- BECAUSE HE AIMED TOO HIGH... AND KNEW TOO MUCH. Andy Brady was an honest lawman, a good husband and candidate for Sheriff of Cochise County -- until a bullet abruptly destroyed his fu...



  • J.P. Beaumont's teenaged daughter Kelly has run off--and her tracks have led the sober-but-struggling sleuth to the Oregon Shakespeare Festival. But in addition to one very headstrong offspring, there is something else waiting for Beau backstage: a c...



  • Originally appeared in : The Mysterious West, 1994. Re-printed in A Moment On the Edge: 100 Years of Crime Stories By Women, 2004. Collected in The J.A. Jance Casebook, 2005, available electronically....



  • An electrifying story of vengeance and the sins of a nightmarish past featuring Seattle detective J.P. Beaumont.The sky above Puget Sound blazes orange, as a burning fishing boat fills the air with acrid smoke . . . and the sickening odor of charred ...



  • When drug dealers murdered her lawman husband, Joanna Brady vowed she would carry on his good work no matter what the cost. With grit, courage, and dogged determination, she challenged the status quo -- and won. Now, as newly elected Sheriff of Coch...



  • “[Jance] continues to grow in her art…. It’s no mystery why this writer is a hit.” --  Seattle TimesA premium edition reissue of the third electrifying Joanna Brady novel by New York Times bestselling author J. A. Jance.A priso...



  • Nobody is grieving over the death of Donald Wolf, a biotechnology corporation executive whose numerous criminal activities included illegally trading industrial secrets...and rape. Too many people, in fact, are almost too eager to take responsibility...



  • A woman is cruelly cut down in a remote corner of Arizona, killed on her nineteenth wedding anniversary by a drunk motorist.? A year later, the driver himself dies badly, and all suspicions point to the slain woman's still-grieving husband as his mur...






  • Brianna "Bree" O'Brien neverretumed from Skeleton Canyon. Someone brutally murdered the pretty, popular teenager who hadsfolen away undercover of darkness to rendezwus with herboyfriend, Ignacio Ybarra. Perhaps youthful rage, jealousy and savage pass...



  • Sheriff Joanna Brady is the law in Cochise County, and she will never allow her personal trials to interfere with the job she was elected to do - especially now that death has invaded Bisbee, Arizona, and has shattered the small desert town's fragile...



  • The Seattle that Beau knew as a young policeman is disappearing. The city is awash in the aromas emanating from a glut of coffee bars, the neighborhood outside his condo building has sprouted gallery upon gallery, and even his long cherished diner h...



  • Filled with stories, memoirs, and photographs celebrating the special relationship between father and daughter, this unique collection offers the contributions of Faye Kellerman, Eileen Goudge, Carole Nelson Douglas, J. A. Jance, and other notable au...



  • Alice Rogers, an elderly widow, is dead, found murdered in the Arizona desert. It's easy enough to pin the killing on the teens caught driving her car across the Mexican border, but Sheriff Brady isn't about to let it go at that. Alice was something ...



  • Twenty years ago, a darkness rose up out of the blistering heat of the Arizona desert and descended upon the Walker family of Tucson. A personified evil, a serial killer named Andrew Carlisle, brought blood and terror into their world, nearly murderi...



  • A piercing ill wind blows hot out of the silent Arizona desert. A Native American woman is dead - an ex-con once jailed for the murder of her husband - and her teenage daughter has vanished info the long shadows of the night-still canyons. A dedi...



  • The Statfire Breeze steams its way north toward the Gulf of Alaska, buffeted by crisp sea winds blowing down from the Arctic. Those on board are seeking peace, relaxation, adventure, escape. But there is no escape here in this place of unspoiled natu...



  • One late night in the Arizona wilderness, two young girls stumble across something they should not see. Now both will have to pay. The desecrated body of a missing Phoenix heiress lies naked, lifeless, and abandoned in the desolate beauty and lone...



  • The dead woman on a cold slab in the Arizona morgue was a talented artist recently arrived from the West Coast. The Washington State Attorney General's office thinks this investigation is too big for a small-town female law officer to handle, so they...






  • The intense desert heat has brought a nightmare to a small corner of the Southwest. A body lies lifeless in an airless trailer, surrounded by seventeen others. It is a crime unspeakable in conception and execution -- a horror strangely connected to a...



  • Thirty years ago, a local Papago girl was brutally murdered, her butchered body found stuffed into a large cooler left on the side of Highway 86. No one was ever charged for the crime. Few even cared. And no one suspected it was only the beginning...



  • Fifty years ago, when she was five, Sister Mary Katherine witnessed something terrible ... A former Seattle policeman now working for the Washington State Attorney's Special Homicide Investigation Team, J.P. Beaumont has been hand-picked to lead t...



  • The end of her high-profile broadcasting career came too soon for TV journalist Alison Reynolds - bounced off the air by executives who wanted a "younger face." With a divorce from her cheating husband of ten years also pending, there is nothing keep...



  • They're cute... they're cuddly... they're on the case. We all know that the most innocent-looking pets can commit a lot of unexpected mischief. But they can also have a talent for sniffing out two-legged troublemakers of a more dangerous kind. ...



  • Who let the dogs out? Evildoers beware! Four of mystery fiction's top storytellers are setting the hounds on your trail -- in an incomparable quartet of crime stories with a canine edge. Man's (and woman's) best friends take the lead in this pheno...



  • Juggling a family and a career has never been easy for Cochise County Sheriff Joanna Brady. Now the impending birth of her second child only adds to her burden, especially when two brutal crimes fall under her jurisdiction. A corpse is discovered ...



  • The New York Times bestselling author of Edge of Evil is back with another masterful thriller featuring Ali Reynolds, an ex-television journalist who finds herself in a twisted web of mystery and murder. Fired from her dream job as a Los Angeles n...



  • The murder of an ex-drug dealer ex-con--gunned down on his mother's doorstep--seems just another turf war fatality. Why then has Seattle homicide investigator J.P. Beaumont been instructed to keep this assignment hush-hush? Meanwhile, Beau's lover an...



  • The New York Times bestselling author of Web of Evil realizes every parent's worst nightmare in the latest heart-stopping thriller featuring All Reynolds, an ex-television journalist who is stalked by danger. With his hand trapped in the door of a...






  • At first glance, it appears to be an accident ... A car carrying an elderly couple goes off the side of a mountain and tumbles into oblivion on a beautiful sunny day in the Coronado National Monument. A note pulled from the twisted wreckage sugges...



  • A cold-blooded murderer lures former newscaster All Reynolds into a chilling web of online romance -- and doom--in this exciting thriller from the New York Times bestselling author of Hand of Evil Ex-television journalist All Reynolds just wants a b...



  • Seattle investigator J. P. Beaumont is working a series of murders in which six young women have been wrapped in tarps, doused with gasoline, and set on fire. Their charred remains have been scattered around various dump sites, creating a grisly patt...



  • In the heat of the Arizona desert, a raging fire pushes temperatures to a deadly degree, and one woman is left to burn. Pulled naked and barely breathing from the fire, the victim has no idea who she is, let alone who would do this to her -- or why. ...



  • Every summer, the Queen of the Night flower blooms in the Arizona desert -- a sacred event commemorated throughout the Tohono O'odham Nation. But this year, one couple's celebration is prematurely destroyed by gunfire ... and the sole witness to the ...



  • An Internet lothario is murdered in cold blood. Police immediately focus their investigation on the victims whose broken hearts he left in his virtual wake. Can Ali Reynolds prove a former colleague's innocence before a remorseless killer decides it'...



  • EXPANDED EDITION " Three Additional Stories!Judith Ann Jance is a New York Times top-10 bestselling author of three mystery series featuring Sheriff Joanna Brady, Seattle homicide detective J. P. Beaumont, and former TV journalist Ali Reynolds, ...



  • Seattle investigator J. P. Beaumont uncovers a dark and deadly conspiracy that reaches deep into the halls of state government, in this latest thriller from New York Times bestselling author J. A. Jance At first glance, the video appears to be sho...



  • Ali Reynolds investigates two shocking cases of victims brutally left for dead in New York Times bestselling J.A. Jance's latest mystery-thriller. When Santa Cruz County deputy sheriff Jose Reyes, Ali's classmate from the Arizona Police Academy, is g...



  • New York Times bestselling author J. A. Jance brings back acclaimed sheriff Joanna Brady in an exciting and twisting mystery set against the beauty and isolation of the Arizona desert Judgment Call When Joanna Brady's daughter, Jenny, stumbles ...






  • Former reporter Ali Reynolds finds herself working against the police to add up the clues that connect one frightened teenager, two dead bodies, and $300,000 . . . with the body count rising. Hired to investigate the grisly murder of a gold-diggin...



  • J. P. Beaumont may be an old homicide hand now, but back when he was a rookie working with his first partner, Milton Gurkey--a.k.a. Pickles--things took a turn for the worse . . . One day, at the end of Beaumont and Pickles's shift, a stop at the ...



  • Getting old is hell. J. P. Beaumont is finally taking some time off to have knee-replacement surgery. But instead of taking his mind off work, the operation plunges him into one of the most perplexing and mind-blowing mysteries he's ever faced. A ...



  • In this instant New York Times bestseller and high-stakes thriller Ali Reynolds spans continents to solve a cold case murder and to figure out who wants a young juvenile offender dead. EVEN GHOSTS CAN’T HIDE FOREVER. Lance Tucker, an incarcer...



  • Butch Dixon has been taken for a ride … Not a jump in the car, see the sights kind of ride. He's been taken for everything he has. He's lost his house, his restaurant business, his savings, his car, his best friend, his faith -- all to his conni...



  • NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLING AUTHOR J. A. JANCE'S THRILLING TALE OF SUSPENSE BRINGS TO LIFE ARIZONA'S COCHISE COUNTY AND THE DESERT SOUTHWEST IN ALL ITS BEAUTY, MYSTERY, AND DANGER While cleaning out the house of her deceased mother, who was a hoard...



  • New York Times bestselling author J.A. Jance brings her trademark breakneck pace to this fun and exciting e-novella, where fan favorite Ali Reynolds takes on double responsibilities as both sleuth and bride.Ali Reynolds is finally getting married to ...



  • Revenge isn’t the only dish served cold... Ali Reynolds’s longtime friend and Taser-carrying nun, Sister Anselm, rushes to the bedside of a young pregnant woman hospitalized for severe injuries after she was hit by a car on a deserted Arizona ...



  • Life has shifted for J. P. Beaumont. After a tragic accident that devastated and ultimately disbanded his Special Homicide Investigation Team, he accepts that he has left homicide detection behind at this point, but he has a lot of unanticipated free...



  • Prospector Amos Warren and Big Bad John Lassiter, his young protege, were as close as father and son until a violent argument tore them apart. The next day, Amos disappeared, never to be seen again. Years later, his bones were found in the desert. Al...



  • For the first time ever, Ali Reynolds and Joanna Brady, New York Times bestselling author J.A. Jance’s popular series sleuths, join forces to solve a terrifying crime in this exclusive enovella that has everything you want in a thriller -- page-tur...



  • In New York Times bestselling author J.A. Jance’s latest thriller, Ali Reynolds faces her most controversial mystery yet, solving the murder of a man whose Ponzi scheme bankrupted hundreds of people, and left them seeking justice…or revenge. W...



  • Sheriff Joanna Brady and investigator Ali Reynolds join forces to solve a crime that has hit dangerously close to home. Sheriff Joanna Brady has a lot on her plate -- she is up for re-election as sheriff, pregnant with her third child, and her eld...



  • A puzzling new case has just hit Sheriff Joanna Brady’s department, demanding every resource she has at her disposal -- as well as help from neighboring law enforcement agencies and the Feds. The bodies of two women have been found at the base of a...



  • In New York Times bestselling author J.A. Jance’s gripping new thriller, Man Overboard, two tech geniuses face off -- one intent on saving lives, the other on ending them. Cybersecurity expert Roger McGeary finally has his life back on track aft...



  • An e-original novella from New York Times bestselling author J. A. Jance, featuring a sneak peek of the next J. P. Beaumont novel, Proof of LifeSince the disbanding of the Special Homicide Investigation Team, J. P. Beaum...



  • J. P. Beaumont’s latest investigation strikes too close to home in this riveting mystery from New York Times bestselling author J. A. Jance. Be careful what you wish for... Before he retired, J. P. Beaumont had looked forward to having his day...



  • After taking down the man responsible for his best friend’s death, Stuart Ramey thinks the case is finally closed. That is, until Stu finds himself left with a multimillion dollar fortune in Bitcoin in a desperate bid by Frigg, a rogue A.I. program...



  • Sheriff Joanna Brady’s best intentions to stay on maternity leave take a hit when a serial homicide case rocks Cochise County, dragging her into a far-reaching investigation to bring down a relentless killer in this chilling tale of suspense from N...



  • Ali Reynolds learns that no good deed goes unpunished. More than ten years after the abrupt end of her high-profile broadcasting career, Ali Reynolds has made a good life for herself in her hometown of Sedona, Arizona. She has a new house, a new h...



  • His throat was slit with the blade of a hunting knife… In this short story from the thrilling anthology MatchUp, bestselling authors J.A. Jance and Eric Van Lustbader -- along with their popular series characters Ali Reynolds and Bravo Shaw -- t...



  • Seattle investigator J. P. Beaumont is drawn into an intriguing, and shockingly personal, case in this superb tale of suspense from New York Times bestselling author J. A. Jance. Former Seattle homicide cop, J. P. Beaumont, is learning to enjoy th...



  • Ali Reynolds and her team at High Noon Enterprises must race against the clock to save an archbishop who faces mysterious death threats in yet another installment of J.A. Jance’s New York Times bestselling series. Years after her son’s fatal o...



  • Cochise County Sheriff Joanna Brady’s professional and personal lives collide when her college-age daughter is involved in a missing persons case in this evocative and atmospheric mystery in J. A. Jance’s New York Times bestselling suspense serie...



  • In this heart-pounding and sharply written thriller from J.A. Jance, Ali Reynolds’s personal life is thrown into turmoil just as two men show up on the scene -- a former employee of her husband’s who has just been released from prison and a seria...



  • The newest thrilling Beaumont suspense novel from New York Times bestselling author J. A. Jance, in which Beaumont is approached by a visitor from the past and finds himself drawn into a missing person’s case where danger is lurking and family secr...



  • Ali Reynolds and High Noon Enterprises face the dangerous consequences of one man’s desperate search for revenge in this unputdownable thriller from J.A. Jance, the New York Times bestselling author who “has been delivering must-read books for a ...



  • From J. A. Jance’s New York Times bestselling Brady and Walker novels, federal investigator Dan Pardee, Brandon Walker’s son-in-law, crosses paths with Sheriff Joanna Brady as he traces the bloody path of a merciless serial killer across the Sout...



  • An e-original short story from New York Times bestselling author J. A. Jance, featuring a sneak peek of the next J. P. Beaumont novel, Den of Iniquity -- Twinkle Winkleman finds herself in a dangerous, life-threatening situation, and love forces her ...



  • New York Times bestselling author J. A. Jance returns with a new pulse-pounding suspense novel featuring beloved private investigator J. P. Beaumont as his investigation of a seemingly accidental death uncovers a complex web of evil.Former Seattle ho...



  • From J.A. Jance, a writer whose thrillers are “hot and getting hotter” (Booklist), the latest in her New York Times bestselling and heart-pounding Ali Reynolds series. Chuck Brewster, the former business partner of Ali Reynolds’s husband B. Sim...


Frequently Asked Questions (FAQ)

J.A. Jance has published 80 books.

The next book by J.A. Jance, OverKill, will be published in April 2025.

The first book by J.A. Jance, Until Proven Guilty, was published in July 1985.

Yes. J.A. Jance has 6 series.