Desert heat - j. a. jance

A cop lies dying beneath the blistering Arizona sun--a local lawman who may well have become the next sheriff of Cochise County.

The police brass claim that Andy Brady was dirty, and that his shooting was a suicide attempt.

Joanna Brady, his devoted wife and mother of their nine-year-old daughter, knows a cover-up when she hears one .

and murder when she sees it.

But her determined efforts to hunt down an assassin and clear her husbands name are placing Joanna and her surviving family in harms way--because in the desert, the one thing more lethal than a rattlers bite .

is the truth.