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The Friday 56 is hosted by Freda’s Voice.The only rules are to grab a book (any book), turn to page 56 or 56% in your ereader and find any sentence or a few ( no spoilers) that grabs you and post it.

Please join Rose City Reader every Friday to share the first sentence or so of the book you are reading along with you initial thoughts about the sentence, impressions of the book, or anything else the opener inspires.

Please include the title of the book and the author’s name.

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Exit Wounds by J A Jance

J A Jance is a top ten New York Times Bestselling author and I know why! 😉

Exit Wounds by J A Jance is the 11th book in the Joanna Brady series.

I am a big fan of J A Jance. She has some amazing covers for her for her mystery, thriller, suspense and women sleuths novels.

You will see that I got this First Edition hardcover for a…song.

MY FRIDAY 56

And they might have slept. It’s possible they could have slept, except right then, as soon as they stopped talking, Lucky, confined to his bedside carton, set up a mournful wail – the same keening cry that had summoned Manny Riuz earlier that evening. Within seconds Tigger, at the far end of the hall,began barking his head off and throwing himself against the door to Jenny’s bedroom.

I love critter stories and there are a lot of them in Exit Wounds by J A Jance.

(page 56 in hardback)

MY BOOK BEGINNINGS

The woman lay in her bed, tossing and turning, and tried to sleep. It was hot, but southern Arizona in July is always hot. Due to unpaid bills, the power company had shutt off electricity to the shabby mobile home months ago. By now she was pretty well used to sleepubg without benefit of a cooler or even a blowing fan.

Uh, oh…What do you think happens next?

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GOOREADS BLURB

Top ten New York Times bestselling author J.A. Jance returns with a powerful tale that explores the darkest corners of human nature.

The heat is a killer in Cochise County, Arizona, with temperatures over 100 degrees. In the suffocating stillness of an airless trailer, a woman is lying dead, a bullet hole in her chest. Why someone would murder a harmless loner with a soft spot for strays is only one of the questions nagging at the local police; another is why the killer used an eighty-five-year-old bullet, fired from the same weapon that slaughtered two other women who were discovered bound, naked, and gruesomely posed on the remote edge of a rancher′s land. The slayings are as oppressive as the blistering heat for Sheriff Joanna Brady, who must shoulder the added double burden of a brutal re-election campaign and major developments on the home front. With more on her plate suddenly than many big city law officers have to contend with, she must put marital distractions and an opponent′s dirty tricks in the background and deal with the terrifying reality that now threatens everyone in her jurisdiction: a serial killer in their midst. Sheriff Brady must pursue this sadistic murderer into the shadows of the past to get to the roots of a monstrous obsession and expose the permanent wounds of a crime far worse than homicide.

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