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Binding: HardcoverDewey Decimal Number: 813.54 EAN: 9780060746766 ISBN: 0060746769 Label: William Morrow Manufacturer: William Morrow Number Of Items: 1 Number Of Pages: 384 Publication Date: July 22, 2008 Publisher: William Morrow Release Date: July 22, 2008 Studio: William Morrow Related Items:
Browse for similar items by category: Click to Display Editorial Review: Product Description: On a beautiful sunny day in the Coronado National Monument, an elderly couple's car goes off the side of a mountain and into oblivion. The terrain is so rocky that a helicopter must be flown in to retrieve the bodies, and to make matters worse, a thunder-storm is looming on the horizon. Hours later and miles away, the subsiding rain reveals gruesome evidence: two trash bags containing human remains. It's just another day in the life of Cochise County sheriff Joanna Brady. Back at home, Joanna has a newborn baby, a teenage daughter, a writer husband, and a difficult mother to deal with. But in the field, it turns out that she has much more on her hands. The remains are those of a handicapped woman who had wandered away from a care facility with a suspicious track record. Another resident, with whom the woman may have been involved, has also been reported missing. Meanwhile, a note is found in the glove compartment of the car lying twisted down the mountainside, stating that its occupants intended to take their own lives. Yet a contradictory autopsy report surfaces, and when the deceased's two daughters show up to feud over their inheritance, Joanna knows there is more to this case than just a suicide pact. And she will go all out to find the truth—no matter where it leads. Average Rating:
 Rating:  - Maybe we guys shouldn't review this author's booksThere are a number of lady suspense and mystery writers I enjoy. I read an Ali Teynolds mystery and found it definitely okay although weak in the suspense.Now there's this one in the Joanna Brady series and not only did I feel that the mystery element suffered from an excess of the lead character's personal issues, but there was no central mystery plot.It's obvious that the author is popular. But this one definitely disaponted me. Rating:  - pretty dippyLimited suspense, uneven story line, distracting subplots and tangential, mundane details that never quite come together. I am not sure what the target audience is for this book, but I am not in it. Rating: - Good Storyline but Some Annoying CharactersI have not read all of the Joanna Brady books so not sure how her character has morphed but I found Joanna's character to be a bit annoying in this one. (I have read a couple others and didn't find her quite so annoying in the other 2) I don't know if the author is intentionally making her an insecure character or it's just the way I'm preceiving it. She is never home and when she is she finds fault with all of Butch's decisions. Someone has to take care of things. She has a baby boy she hardly ... Read More Rating:  - Damage ControlI have loved the whole series about Sheriff JoAnna Brady. I could hardly put this book down. I will greatly anticipate the next one in the series. Rating: - 30 percent mystery, 70 percent soap operaIn my opinion, "Damage Control" suffers from the same problem that I think afflicts most modern mystery (and horror) writing: it's really two books -- a mystery and a straight novel -- with little connection between the two. (I concede up front that it may not be accurate to call this a "problem," since there seems to be a large audience for this kind of writing.) As a mystery, "Damage Control" starts out promisingly, with two nicely written death scenes that leave the reader wondering ... Read More 
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