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desert heat
p life is good for joanna brady in the small desert community of bisbee . she has jenny her adored nine year old daughter and solid honest and loving husband andy a local lawman whos running for sheriff of cochise county . but her good life explodes when a bullet destroys andy bradys future and leaves him dying beneath the blistering arizona sun . p the police brass claim that andy was dirty up to his neck in drugs and smuggling and that the shooting was a suicide attempt . joanna knows a cover up when she hears one ... and murder when she sees it . but her determined efforts to track down an assassin and clear her husbands name are placing herself and her jenny in serious jeopardy . because in the desert the truth can be far more lethal than a rattlers bite .
determined to clear her late husband andys name after police brass claim that his shooting death was the result of his involvement in drug running joanna brady attempts to find andys killers