Fire and Ice: A Beaumont and Brady Novel

by: J.A. Jance

Published by: William Morrow/Harper Collins (July 21 release)

Reviewed by Peg Brantley

A young woman was bound, gagged, wrapped in a tarp and thrown into the back of an SUV. She wasn’t dead. That fact bothered the man assigned to dump her, pull her teeth and set her on fire in the Cascades of Washington state—but not enough to stop him from dragging her to a makeshift pyre before returning to the 4-Runner for a tire iron.

She would be number six.

At the same time, in Cochise County, Arizona, a concerned citizen calls to report a possible fatality at a private ATV park after seeing buzzards circling over what appears to be a dead body.

J.P. Beaumont and his Special Homicide Investigative Team are working a case in Washington that has connections with the murder of an ATV park caretaker in Arizona that is being investigated by Sheriff Joanna Brady and her department.

For fans of J.A. Jance, you’ll be thrilled to see that Beaumont and Brady are back—together. Their lives are dramatically different in this encounter, but their shared history echoes.

Best-selling mystery novelist J.A. Jance brings her intimate knowledge of Washington and Arizona, dogs and relationships together in Fire and Ice, deftly drawing two disparate threads of crime together in a substantial and believable manner. Her title as the “undisputed mistress of the mystery novel” bestowed upon her by the Tucson Citizen seems secure.

Armchair Interviews says: Highly recommended as another 5-star offering from this prolific writer.

Author’s Web site: http://www.JAJance.com