Outlaw Mountain (Joanna Brady, Book 7) by J. A. Jance

By J. A. Jance

Alice Rogers, an aged widow, is useless, chanced on murdered within the Arizona wilderness. It's effortless sufficient to pin the killing at the adolescents stuck using her automobile around the Mexican border, yet Sheriff Brady isn't approximately to permit it move at that. Alice used to be whatever of a loose spirit, with a penchant for Scotch, the glitter of Las Vegas, and a romance with a guy 20 years her junior. Her hot-tempered daughter Susan suspects Mom's boyfriend--her former handyman who moved in rather than relocating on while he comprehensive his convenient paintings. Now Susan's livid at her brother Clete, the do-nothing mayor of Tombstone, blaming him for no longer holding their inheritance via breaking apart their mother's iciness romance.

Yet all isn't because it seems to be, and Joanna is pressured to place her own lifestyles on carry to dig deeper into Alice's demise, the lives of her grasping offspring, and the identification of her mysterious gentleman good friend. and because the research will get sidetracked by means of grotesque neighborhood land disputes, it takes a few not easy twists and turns, until eventually Sheriff Brady unearths herself wading via a murky morass of graft and corruption which may have given an individual cause to kill--and kill back.

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By J. A. Jance

Alice Rogers, an aged widow, is useless, chanced on murdered within the Arizona wilderness. It's effortless sufficient to pin the killing at the adolescents stuck using her automobile around the Mexican border, yet Sheriff Brady isn't approximately to permit it move at that. Alice used to be whatever of a loose spirit, with a penchant for Scotch, the glitter of Las Vegas, and a romance with a guy 20 years her junior. Her hot-tempered daughter Susan suspects Mom's boyfriend--her former handyman who moved in rather than relocating on while he comprehensive his convenient paintings. Now Susan's livid at her brother Clete, the do-nothing mayor of Tombstone, blaming him for no longer holding their inheritance via breaking apart their mother's iciness romance.

Yet all isn't because it seems to be, and Joanna is pressured to place her own lifestyles on carry to dig deeper into Alice's demise, the lives of her grasping offspring, and the identification of her mysterious gentleman good friend. and because the research will get sidetracked by means of grotesque neighborhood land disputes, it takes a few not easy twists and turns, until eventually Sheriff Brady unearths herself wading via a murky morass of graft and corruption which may have given an individual cause to kill--and kill back.

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PLACE ON WOULD TOURS. ON NATURALLY BE YOUR" A" SHOWN OFF" CONGRATULATIONS" RUN Congratulations! You have found the Historical Society workers. You walk over to the big hole in the sand they have been digging and ask lots of questions. Suddenly, you notice a bony hand sticking out of the sand. No one seems to understand why you are jumping up and down and yelling. Then they see the hand too. You grab a shovel and help the workers. You have discovered an ancient burial ground! 42 • MYSTERY AND ADVENTURE The report you write on your experiences gets an A and you get a membership from the Historical Society for helping it to discover the burial ground The "S-Thief" Stories about the "S-Thief have been in all the newspapers.

All three pass by his farm regularly and know his habits. Type in the program to find out their location. " "GO BACK TO THE BOOK" RUN Before you set off to question the suspects, Frank Bridges gives you a description of his missing horse. Jim Fowler is a garden and pet supply salesman. A neatly trimmed lawn surrounds Jim's house. The only horse you see here is a ceramic statue of a jockey on a white horse. It rests beside the front door. At the rear of the house you can see a large garage that has three locks.

The newspaper article said that the Society has found an old map in its library. The map is of a beach in your town that used to be an Indian reservation. M~ 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 /WWW" /WWWW" 0 0/WWWWWW" X /WWW" o 0 t| 0 /WWWWWWW" 0 /W" 90 PRINT "0 - TEEPEE" 100 PRINT "X = HISTORICAL SPOT' A DAY AT THE BEACH 110 120 PRINT PRINT • 39 ll IN QUESTION11 "W = WATER11 RUN There are lots of reservations in your town. Many roads, beaches and parks there have Indian names. The Historical Society is especially concerned that some of the beaches where the Indians once lived are being ruined by companies who dump their garbage there.

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