Exit Wounds

A desert heat wave, an eighty-six-year-old bullet, and a brutal killer who strikes from the shadows.

Sheriff Joanna Brady seeks an elusive and chillingly brutal killer whose crimes run deep into the past in the next New York Times bestseller from the author of Partner in Crime

Antique military bullets found at a crime scene near the San Pedro River quickly link the murder of an isolated recluse to a double homicide across state lines. Joanna pursues a shadowy conspiracy whose violent origins have remained hidden in the desert for generations.

Cochise County’s dedicated sheriff confronts a ruthless predator whose deadly reach spans borders and decades. As a grueling reelection campaign heats up in the summer drought, she must expose the truth before another life is claimed.
Small Town Investigation: When eighteen neglected dogs are found locked in a sweltering trailer off Charleston Road, Joanna must untangle the victim’s fraught ties to her outspoken grandmother, Edith Mossman.Police Procedural: Detectives Ernie Carpenter and Jaime Carbajal trace vintage Colt casings through national ballistics databases and decades-old Bisbee mining company rosters.American Southwest: From the sun-baked canyons of the Mule Mountains to torrential monsoon flash floods that wash out desert highways, local terrain proves as unforgiving as the killer on the loose.Also by This Author: Nothing to Lose, Second Watch and Missing and Endangered.