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Deadly Stakes by J. A. Jance. An Ali Reynolds Mystery.
Review summary: This is a thrilling mystery with a well-developed storyline and a strong, intelligent woman as its central character, one who frequently acts impulsively, incurring the frustration of local officials with her involvement, but also one who has a great passion for the law and seeks to ensure that justice is served. (Click here for text of full review.)
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Deadly Stakes
J. A. Jance
An Ali Reynolds Mystery
Touchstone (February 2013)
Publisher synopsis: Police academy-trained former reporter Ali Reynolds is contacted to investigate the grisly murder of a gold-digging divorcee on behalf of a woman accused of the crime. Lynn Martinson is dating the dead woman's ex-husband, and she and her boyfriend Chip Ralston have been charged.
Ali is simultaneously drawn to the case of A. J. Sanders, a frightened teen with secrets of his own. He's the first to find the body in the Camp Verde desert when he goes to retrieve a mysterious buried box hidden by his absent father — a box that turns out to be filled with hundreds of thousands of dollars in poker chips.
When the body of an ex-con is discovered near the first crime scene, Ali struggles to determine if A. J. and Lynn's cases are related. Though her friends in the police department grow increasingly irritated by her involvement with the cases, Ali must stop a deadly killer from claiming another victim … before she herself is lost in this game of deadly stakes.
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