Dance of the bones

J. P. Beaumont and Brandon Walker...join forces for the first time...Prospector Amos Warren and Big Bad John Lassiter, his young proťǧ 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. All signs pointed to John Lassiter, and Detective Brandon Walker made the arrest in the case. Now, more than four decades later, the retired Walker is called in when TLC--The Last Chance, a group of retired cops, criminalists, medical examiners, and district attorneys who devote their time and experience to solving stone-cold homicide cases--looks into the killing.

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J. P. Beaumont and Brandon Walker, two of New York Times bestselling author J. A. Jance s most acclaimed series characters, join forces for the first time in one of the most suspenseful works of her career.

Years ago, Amos Warren, a prospector, was gunned down out in the desert and Sheriff Brandon Walker made the arrest in the case. Now, the retired Walker is called in when the alleged killer, John Lassiter, refuses to accept a plea deal that would release him from prison with time served. Lassiter wants Brandon and The Last Chance to find Amos's "real" killer and clear his name.

Sixteen hundred miles to the north in Seattle, J.P. Beaumont is at loose ends after the Special Homicide Investigation Team, affectionately known as S.H.I.T., has been unexpectedly and completely disbanded. When Brandon discovers that there are links between Lassiter s case and an unsolved case in Seattle, he comes to Beau for help.

Those two cases suddenly become hot when two young boys from the reservation, one of them with close ties to the Walker family, go missing. Can two seasoned cops, working together, decipher the missing pieces in time to keep them alive?"

Author Notes

Judith Ann (J. A.) Jance was born in Watertown, South Dakota on October 27, 1944. She received a degree in English and secondary education in 1966 and a M. Ed. in library science in 1970 from the University of Arizona. Before becoming an author, she taught high school English, worked as a school librarian on a Native American reservation, and sold insurance.

She is the author of many popular mystery series including the J. P. Beaumont Mystery series, Joanna Brady Mystery series, and the Ali Reynolds series. She won the American Mystery Award for Without Due Process in 1992 and for Failure to Appear in 1993. Both of these titles are books in the J. P. Beaumont Mystery series. In 2014, her fiction book, A Last Goodbye, made the New York Times bestseller list.

Random Acts, a title in A Joanna Brady and Ali Reynolds Novella Series, made the New York Times bestseller list in 2016.

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Publisher's Weekly Review

Bestseller Jance's 51st novel brings together two of her popular series characters-Seattle detective J.P. Beaumont and Arizona sheriff Brandon Walker-in a highly entertaining plot that honors both of these now-retired cops. Grounded in the legends and lore of the Tohono O'odham people, the story also delivers a solid look at the vagaries of justice. In 1970, Walker arrested John Lassiter for the shooting murder of Lassiter's foster father, prospector Amos Warren. Still in prison after all these years and suffering from MS, Lassiter refuses a plea deal that might release him. Instead, Lassiter wants Walker to find the real killer, using the work Walker does with Last Chance, a volunteer organization of retired law enforcement experts. When a link is found to an unsolved Seattle case, Walker gets in touch with Beaumont. The kidnapping of two boys ratchets up the suspense. Jance (Cold Betrayal) satisfies fans of both series with an energetic plot resplendent with believable twists, leaving readers eager for Beaumont and Walker's next outing. Agent: Alice Volpe, Northwest Literary Agency. (Sept.) © Copyright PWxyz, LLC. All rights reserved.

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For the first time, retired detectives J. P. Beaumont of Seattle and Brandon Walker of Tucson each the protagonist in a separate Jance mystery series work together on related cold cases. Walker, who arrested Big Bad John Lassiter for the 1970 murder of Amos Warren, is asked to look into the case on behalf of Lassiter's adult daughter. The long-imprisoned Lassiter always maintained his innocence and pointed toward Ava Martin, his then-girlfriend, who caused friction between him and Warren. When the remains of a friend of Lassiter's are discovered in Seattle and murder is indicated, Beaumont is called to help. At the same time, violence erupts on the Tohono O'odham reservation, involving Walker's daughter, Dr. Lani Walker-Pardee, and her 13-year-old godson, Gabe Ortiz, whom she is trying to wean away from bad associates. Jance threads Tohono O'odham lore through the novel as the various plotlines intertwine in a narrative that starts slowly but gallops to a climax. The welcome return of Beaumont raises the possibility of more connections between series by this accomplished genre veteran.--Leber, Michele Copyright 2015 Booklist

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