Exit Wounds: A Novel of Suspense

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The incomparable J. A. Jance returns with a powerful tale that explores the darkest corners of human nature, revealing the grievous injuries inflicted behind locked doors, the unseen wounds that bleed and destroy and never heal ...

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 stray dogs 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 reelection campaign and major developments on the home front. With suddenly more on her plate than many big-city law officers have to contend with, Joanna 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.

A twisted and lethal drama is unfolding in this small corner of the southwestern desert as fear, hatred, and the evil at the core of one family's history come to a rapid boil beneath a merciless Arizona sun. Pressure mounts for Sheriff Brady personally and professionally while she pursues a 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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Heat kills in Cochise County, Arizona, but the woman lying dead inside an airless trailer is the victim of a serial killer's eighty-five-year-old bullet, not the weather. Sheriff Joanna Brady sorts out dirty politics while pursuing a sadistic murderer with a monstrous obsession. The incomparable J. A. Jance returns with a powerful tale that explores the darkest corners of human nature, revealing the grievous injuries inflicted behind locked doors, the unseen wounds that bleed and destroy and never heal... 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 stray dogs 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 reelection campaign and major developments on the home front. With suddenly more on her plate than many big-city law officers have to contend with, Joanna 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. A twisted and lethal drama is unfolding in this small corner of the southwestern desert as fear, hatred, and the evil at the core of one family's history come to a rapid boil beneath a merciless Arizona sun. Pressure mounts for Sheriff Brady personally and professionally while she pursues a 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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Very Entertaining....a True Page-turner !.......2007-05-10

Over the years, I've read quite a few of Jance's novels, and I really like her writing style. Her character development is strong, and her language is easy to read.......her use of imagery has none of the "imagery gone wild" approach that some authors seem to embrace.

This book and its Southern Arizona setting is particularly appealing to me, and will be to any readers familiar with the area or who is interested in the Southwest.

The earlier criticism of a reviewer who felt her female characters were too strong and the males too compliant and weak, is hard to understand. I felt almost the opposite, that Joanna maintained a remarkable degree of femininity given her job as Sheriff, and her male "support staff" which included her husband, seemed very male and secure in their maleness. They all exhibited that small town warmth and comraderie that is part of the charm of the Southwest, and lots of small towns everywhere.

J A Jance never disappoints.

Zero stars if there was an option!!.......2006-10-27

This was my first Jance novel and probably my last. I am an open minded progressive reader of many novels and believe that we are all entitled to free speech and thought but throughout this book, men are relegated to subordinate if not subservient roles which is clearly not mainstream or believable. Many false assertions regarding the Catholic church abound with a specific reference to pediphile priests being dumped in New Mexico as if it was a known fact. The most offensive reference being that God clearly must be a woman. Do not buy from this author if morally conservative.

Moral Issues Abound.......2005-11-22

EXIT WOUNDS is J.A. Jance's tenth book in the Joanna Brady series and it seems as if she keeps getting better as she racks up the bestsellers.

Cochise County Sheriff, Joanna Brady, is called to the scene of a gruesome murder. Out in the desert, secluded from everyone, Carol Mossman enjoyed her seventeen dogs as her only companions. She had lived a troubled life and didn't trust many people. Someone was bent on killing Carol and it was Joanna Brady's job to find out who and why.

The basic story line is enjoyable, but the subplots are what make the book interesting. Seems Joanna Brady has just learned that she's pregnant and is battling morning sickness. Added to this is the budget cuts which leaves the animal control department answering to the county sheriff - when the seventeen dogs perish along with their owner, animal rights activists begin protesting and voicing their outrage. And we're given a glimpse as to the focus on the next book in the series: it's reelection time and Brady is beginning her campaign against a former deputy.

Character development is one of Jance's strong suits. Lively individuals abound in this tale. We have Carol's grandmother who is feisty and determined to help Joanna Brady find her granddaughter's killer. Carol's two sisters are both unique and interesting. And we have reoccurring roles from Tica Romero (the dispatcher), Gregovitch and Spike (the K-9 team), Frank Montoya (Joanna's right had man), and detectives Carbajal, Carpenter among others. Of course Butch, Joanna's husband, has a major role but at times he came off surly. I'm not sure that was Jance's intention, but non-the-less it was apparent that Butch is getting a bit tired of his wife's hectic schedule. It should be interesting to see what he thinks as Joanna's pregnancy continues and her schedule doesn't slow down.

Underlying moral issues abound in EXIT WOUNDS. Carol Mossman was a hoarder - someone who takes in abandoned, abused, or unwanted dogs. We find out that many hoarders have been the victims of abuse and this book focuses on the long-term affects of that abuse. Without Jance's skill it could have been a depressing book dealing with so many issues that are hard to digest in large doses. Instead we are given a story that will make one stop and take stock of the situation and realize that judging someone is not a good thing, but getting help for those that have these issues is a necessity. Too many times, people as well as society turn their backs and just point fingers saying, "She has too many dogs."

Another moral issue lightly touched upon is bigamists and the cults who exist to promote this behavior. Jance doesn't delve into this topic but opens eyes to the fact that it does exist.

Also, we're given a glimpse at the illegal immigration problems encountered in many southwestern states. Coyotes smuggling undocumented aliens are often headline news when their vehicles crash, or they dump the UDA's in the desert and expect them to walk in the heat with no water. Jance gives a personal touch to these stories that will make her fans take heart when they again hear one of these stories on the news.

Overall the mystery portion is not rocket science and is easily understood, especially when the puzzle pieces start falling into place. The moral issues will make you think long after the book is finished. And the characters are like old friends, whom we can't wait to see again soon! It's another winner for Jance.

Suspense and Mystery.......2005-06-16

This was my first book by this author. It was very well written and I plan to read more titles by J.J.

My First Jance.......2005-03-22

This was my first Jance novel. I enjoyed it immensely. I was surprised until the last page about "who done it" I learned some things about why people keep such large packs of pets. Jance's descriptions made me want to visit the desert. In conversation one evening to a person from the same area, I learned that her descriptions were indeed accurate. This won't be my last Jance novel. Hope the others are this good.

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Read it slowly
A vivid, contemporary plot make this a top pick for any collection strong in modern graphic novels.
A gorgeous work of art
First time I'd read a graphic novel...

Exit Wounds
Rutu Modan
Manufacturer: Drawn and Quarterly
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ASIN: 1897299060
Release Date: 2007-06-12

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Set in modern-day Tel Aviv, a young man,Koby Franco, receives an urgent phone call from a female soldier. Learning that his estranged father may have been a victim of a suicide bombing in Hadera, Koby reluctantly joins the soldier in searching for clues. His death would certainly explain his empty apartment and disconnected phone line. As Koby tries to unravel the mystery of his father’s death, he finds himself piecing together not only the last few months of his father’s life but his entire identity. With thin, precise lines and luscious watercolors, Rutu Modan creates a portrait of modern Israel, a place where sudden death mingles with the slow dissolution of family ties.

Exit Wounds is the North American graphic-novel debut from one of Israel’s best-known cartoonists. Modan has received several awards in Israel and abroad, including the Best Illustrated Children’s Book Award from the Israel Museum in Jerusalem four times and Young Artist of the Year by the Israel Ministry of Culture. She is a chosen artist of the Israel Cultural Excellence Foundation.

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Read it slowly.......2007-10-01

This book was a real surprise for me. I had passed it a number of times on the shelf and didn't really know what to do with it. I thought the artwork was 'eh' and the story seemed a little dull. BUT, I started seeing some interesting press on the book, and picked it up after all.
I had to force myself to quit at the end of each chapter because I didn't want the book to be over too quickly! The work and writing are really amazing... the kind of thing where you can tell the artist was truly intent on recognizing a vision. And I think she does so perfectly. Look out for the ocean scene, that's definitely my favorite.
The story is kind of quiet, but still packs a huge punch.

A vivid, contemporary plot make this a top pick for any collection strong in modern graphic novels........2007-08-09

EXIT WOUNDS is a graphic novel in full color, set in modern-day Tel Aviv and telling of a young man's urgent phone call from a female soldier which tells of his father's death from a possible suicide bomber. Koby joins the soldier searching for clues - and finds himself facing his father's hidden identity and secret world - and a danger which could draw him in. Excellent characterization and a vivid, contemporary plot make this a top pick for any collection strong in modern graphic novels.

Diane C. Donovan
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A gorgeous work of art.......2007-07-13

Rutu Modan is one of the most talented graphic artists in Israel and this book is a brilliant exhibition of her skill. She creates a rich, saturated world immediately recognizable to anyone who has lived in Tel Aviv, combined with an expressionistic use of color and detail.

First time I'd read a graphic novel..........2007-07-10

The editorial descriptions really do this beautiful book more justice than I can. It is more than a novel and more than artwork, a wonderful combination of the two on a very searing subject. Buy it, read it.

4 Titles in Joanna Brady Series - Shoot Don't Shoot - Partner in Crime - Paradise Lost - Exit Wounds

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4 Titles in Joanna Brady Series - Shoot Don't Shoot - Partner in Crime - Paradise Lost - Exit Wounds
J. A. Jance
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4 Mass Market Paperback Titles in Joanna Brady Series - Shoot Don't Shoot - Partner in Crime - Paradise Lost - Exit Wounds

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Exit Wounds
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Exit Wounds

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This won't hurt.
Great cop caper

Exit Wounds
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The ultimate raunchy burnt-out-cop saga, set in a hilarious precinct of mavericks and malcontents.

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This won't hurt........2001-03-05

There is a Steven Seagal movie "based on" this book about to arrive in theaters. The previews show explosions, car crashes, Matrix-like battles...the book does not. However, the book is a powerhouse in its own right. Wambaugh-like writing, sometimes a little disjointed, is richly textured and obviously has a source in the real life experiences of the author or his friends. I will gladly pick up another work by the author, you should too.

Great cop caper.......2001-02-15

A cop novel by a Long Island cop, the first of two in the series, so far as I know. The sequel is The Honor Farm. Very funny, yet dark, and quite moving. A movie based on EXIT WOUNDS is coming, and crime fans who might have missed this book get one more chance to meet Police Officer Orin Boyd (Steven Seagal)up close and personal. They should take it.

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Good as a sleep inducer.

Exit Wounds
J.A. Jance
Manufacturer: Morrow
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Good as a sleep inducer........2007-04-11

It took me over 2 months to slog through this muck. Character and plot development is so jerky that by the time Jance returns to a thread you no longer care. The last two chapters get better but it's not worth the wait.

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Exit Wounds
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Another winner

Exit Wounds
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Another winner.......2002-08-15

If this book is ever made into a movie Guy Ritchie should be first choice to direct it. Hutson delivers another compulsive story in this tale of a band of small time crooks out to pull one last job, the biggest of their lives. The only problem is the money they have stolen belongs to a powerful crime kingpin who gives them an ultimatum. Either he kills them on the spot or they can take a chance at having their lives spared and kill a psychotic Jamaican kingpin who is gruesomely butchering other criminals in order to become No. 1.
Being a Hutson novel there is ample graphic violence and the usual cliches he uses because Hutson himself admits he's too lazy to think of anything else. That's not a bad thing, though his previous book WARHOL'S PROPHECY was a lot better. I hope he returns to the horror genre again, if only once more. But this is good.

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Now We Know Where All the Pyramids Came From!

The Empty City

Manufacturer: Looney Laboratories Inc.
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ASIN: 1929780001

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Now We Know Where All the Pyramids Came From!.......2005-10-29

If you've ever been entranced by those games people are playing with the little plastic pyramids, this is the book that started it all.

The Empty City is a story of many things: friendship, first loves, late nights at the downtown cafe, that part of our lives which raced by so quickly and for which we'd give almost anything to return. It's also the story of Icehouse, a strange little game that ties all the characters and elements together, a game that claims to have been created by the now long-dead inhabitants of Mars.

Andy Looney creates a world that seems to be halfway between reality and dream, and Alison Frane's illustrations only add to the delightful quirkiness. Roommates build time machines, the mayor holds boardgame strategy sessions, tabloids might be the most accurate media of all, and something that may or may not be an atomic bomb gets left on the doorstep. There's a weaving fever-dream quality to the setting, almost as if at any minute it would pop, like a soap bubble, leaving only our drab mundane world behind.

Ignore the occasional error or stilted sentence. Remember that this book was self-published, it's a labor of love. There's a lot of the author's heart and soul poured into this book, and that will always triumph over small mechanical flaws.

Icehouse Lights (Yale Series of Younger Poets Series: Vol.)

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Winner of the 1981 Yale Series of Younger Poets competition. "David Wojahn's poems concern themselves with emotive basics: leaving home, watching those we love age and die, the inescapable drone of our mortality. Yet as poems, they are far from usual. They help us welcome inside, again and again, the most personal of feelings." -Richard Hugo, Poet and Judge of the Competition

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From Greenhouse to Icehouse
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The marine Eocene-Oligocene transition of 34 million years ago was a critical turning point in Earth's climatic history, when the warm, high-diversity "greenhouse" world of the early Eocene ceded to the glacial, "icehouse" conditions of the early Oligocene. This book surveys the advances in stratigraphic and paleontological research and isotopic analysis made since 1989 in regard to marine deposits around the world. In particular, it summarizes the high-resolution details of the so-called doubthouse interval (roughly 45 to 34 million years ago), which is critical to testing climatic and evolutionary hypotheses about the Eocene deterioration.

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Ice and Icehouses Through the Ages
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The Ice Houses of Britain
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Icehouse
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A killing spree has begun in the small town of Creek City, and Jimmy Wohlers—the town's one-time high school sports star—stands right in the middle of the turn of events with his chosen enemy, Rob Crewe. After waking up wounded and bloodied on a snowy hill, Rob sets out to bring about an end to Jimmy. Conversely, seeing his only threat in what looks like the eternal slumber, Jimmy makes his way back into town to tie up the loose ends by eliminating anything or anyone who may point to him as the killer. A series of events that leads the two enemies towards one another unfolds as Rob and Jimmy edge ever closer towards their respective fates.

The icehouse gang;: My year with the Black Hawks

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The icehouse gang;: My year with the Black Hawks
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Definative.......2003-10-09

If you don't know anything about Icehouses then this is the book to read. If you know something but want to know more then buy it also.

I own an Icehouse and this book explained many of the things I didn't know when I bought it.

It's a very English book and covers mostly Icehouses in Britain (the concept is similar but different in the states). Good pictures and diagrams, a great little book.

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