Devil’s Claw Audiobook (Free)

In the night-still canyons from the Arizona desert, a girl is on the run. Alone but also for her much loved red-tailed hawk, she flees from the dark shadows of her young life, the horror she has witnessed…and the terror that now stalks her.

New York Instances bestselling author J.A. Jance profits with her eighth novel in the highly acclaimed Joanna Brady secret series. Set against the background of the modern west, this gripping story discovers Sheriff Brady juggling a precarious overload in both her personal about Devil’s Claw and professional lives. Going to be married, Joanna’s facing a daughter turning twelve and happening twenty, a meddlesome mom micro-managing her wedding ceremony, and brand-new in-laws arriving any day. The sudden death of her much-loved neighbor and handyman, Clayton Rhodes, creates further turmoil, departing Joanna shocked, saddened, and the target of Clayton’s irate and irrational child, who accuses the Sheriff’s Division of covering up a possible murder.

But amidst the uproar, the survey of a homicide at Cochise Stronghold in the Dragoon Mountains quickly captures Joanna’s full attention. An Indian girl has been found shot to death–a female lately released from prision after offering period for the manslaughter killing of her spouse. She actually is the mom of a lacking fifteen-year-old, Lucy Ridder.

The death at first is apparently an instance of domestic rage finally exploding’and a troubled teen runaway may be a victim, or a cold-blooded killer. Yet as Joanna handles the long-standing difficulties of Clayton Rhodes’ family members and digs deeper into the mystical existence of Lucy and her family members, she discovers that investigating family hostilities can be leading her down a twisted trail of hatred, greed, and far-reaching consequences–and into a harmful world where violence is the first response and long buried secrets are a reason to destroy…or die.

Once again, J.A. Jance delivers a gritty, deftly written thriller that unfolds on a vivid landscape of natural beauty and unrelenting risk. And, as often, Sheriff Joanna Brady brings the establishing to life with the sensitivity, heart, and intense passion for justice which makes Jance novels ring with authenticity.