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A review by ncrabb
Shoot Don't Shoot by J.A. Jance
4.0
With her successful election as sheriff of Cochise County behind her, Joanna Brady gets down to the business of running her department. That’s not easy, since one of her officers vociferously campaigned for her opponent and another one ran against her. Worse still is the good old boy attitude in the department. They don’t even bother to call Joanna out on a late-night call—and it’s one she needed to be involved in.
Joanna realizes she can run her department fine, but she’s also aware she needs formal police academy training, and off she goes to Phoenix to get it. But before she leaves, one of her deputies introduces her to a woman whose son is in a Phoenix jail for a murder his mom is sure he didn’t commit. Sadly, Joanna agrees to look over the voluminous newspaper clippings the distraught mother has brought, but she makes no promises about how to help the man.
Still, the case fascinates her, drawing her both to the prison that holds the killer and to the Roadhouse Bar—the last place anyone saw the victim and suspect. But folks get upset by the fact that Joanna is looking into the case, and things stir up in an ugly way. Before the book ends, someone murders one of Joanna’s instructors, and Joanna and her daughter, Jennifer, are in danger, since they, too, are on a killer’s list.
Joanna realizes she can run her department fine, but she’s also aware she needs formal police academy training, and off she goes to Phoenix to get it. But before she leaves, one of her deputies introduces her to a woman whose son is in a Phoenix jail for a murder his mom is sure he didn’t commit. Sadly, Joanna agrees to look over the voluminous newspaper clippings the distraught mother has brought, but she makes no promises about how to help the man.
Still, the case fascinates her, drawing her both to the prison that holds the killer and to the Roadhouse Bar—the last place anyone saw the victim and suspect. But folks get upset by the fact that Joanna is looking into the case, and things stir up in an ugly way. Before the book ends, someone murders one of Joanna’s instructors, and Joanna and her daughter, Jennifer, are in danger, since they, too, are on a killer’s list.