Joanna Brady, Book 13
by J. A. Jance
Damage Control opens with a mountain crash that looks like a double suicide until an autopsy and local inquiries complicate the picture. It reads like a slow, meticulous investigation: autopsy findings, forensic detail, and repeated witness interviews that peel back alibis and motives. That patient unpacking is the book's useful part — satisfying if you enjoy assembling physical clues and spotting inconsistencies. The flip side is a midbook slog where exposition and procedural scenes drag, leaving characters feeling secondary to method.
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At first glance, it appears to be an accident . . .A car carrying an elderly couple goes off the side of a mountain and tumbles into oblivion on a beautiful sunny day in the Coronado National Monument. A note pulled from the twisted wreckage suggests the tragedy may have been a double suicide—but an autopsy later suggests something different. A dea...
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