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Queen of the night

Title:

Queen of the night

Author:

Jance, Judith A, author.

Series:

Walker Family ;

Series Number:

Summary:

The traditions of the Tohono O'odham people are woven into the fabric of three families as Dr. Lani Walker and Pima County homicide investigator Brian Fellows join forces to protect a little girl who witnessed her mother's murder.

Physical Description:

454 p. ; 19 cm.

Genre:

Detective and mystery fiction.

Thrillers (Fiction)

Subject Term:

Walker family (Fictitious characters : Jance) -- Fiction.

Cold cases (Criminal investigation) -- Fiction.

Geographic Term:

Arizona -- Fiction.

Publisher:

William Morrow : Harper,

Publication Date:

2011

2010

ISBN:

9780061239250

9780062044891

Publication Information:

New York : William Morrow : Harper, 2011, c2010.

Call Number:

JANCE

Holds: Copies:

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Summary

"J.A. Jance is among the best--if not the best."

--Chattanooga Times

In Queen of the Night, New York Times bestselling author J.A. Jance brings back the Walker family--introduced in Hour of the Hunter, terrorized in Kiss of the Bees, and last seen in Day of the Dead. A multilayered thriller, gripping and unforgettable--evocatively set in the breathtaking Arizona desert--Queen of the Night is a chilling tale of murder past and present that connects and devastates three separate families.

Author Notes

Judith Ann (J. A.) Jance was born in Watertown, South Dakota on October 27, 1944. She received a degree in English and secondary education in 1966 and a M. Ed. in library science in 1970 from the University of Arizona. Before becoming an author, she taught high school English, worked as a school librarian on a Native American reservation, and sold insurance.

She is the author of many popular mystery series including the J. P. Beaumont Mystery series, Joanna Brady Mystery series, and the Ali Reynolds series. She won the American Mystery Award for Without Due Process in 1992 and for Failure to Appear in 1993. Both of these titles are books in the J. P. Beaumont Mystery series. In 2014, her fiction book, A Last Goodbye, made the New York Times bestseller list.

Random Acts, a title in A Joanna Brady and Ali Reynolds Novella Series, made the New York Times bestseller list in 2016.

(Bowker Author Biography)

Reviews (1)

Library Journal Review

Jance's (www.jajance.com) fourth Brandon Walker title follows Day of the Dead (2005), also available from Recorded Books/Harper-Audio. It is a somewhat complicated weave of plots and characters revolving around Arizona's Tohono O'odham nation. In it, unstable Jonathan Southhard kills his entire family in California and travels to Tucson, AZ, to find and exact revenge on his estranged mother, Abby. Enter Brandon Walker, his wife, and their adopted daughter; a Native war vet; and a dying cop haunted by an unsolved murder, each of whom has a story to tell. Not as compelling and well written as some of Jance's previous titles (namely, those from her Ali Reynolds and J.P. Beaumont series), this nod to author Tony Hillerman will nonetheless appeal to her fans as well as to fans of Nevada Barr, Kathy Reichs, and Faye Kellerman. Actor/narrator Greg Itzin does a fine job of voicing the wide cast of characters and with the many Native American words and touches.-Nicole A. Cooke, Montclair State Univ. Lib., NJ (c) Copyright 2010. Library Journals LLC, a wholly owned subsidiary of Media Source, Inc. No redistribution permitted.