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    Left for Dead: A Novel
    Left for Dead: A Novel
    Left for Dead: A Novel
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    Left for Dead: A Novel

    Written by J.A. Jance

    Narrated by Karen Ziemba

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    When violence from the drug wars with the Mexican cartels crosses the border into Arizona, and an old friend is murdered, Ali Reynolds steps in to investigate in New York Times bestselling author J.A. Jance’s fast-paced mystery.

    When Santa Cruz county deputy sheriff Jose Reyes, one of Ali Reynolds’s classmates from the Arizona Police Academy, is gunned down and left to die, he is at first assumed to be an innocent victim of the drug wars escalating across the border. But the crime scene investigation shows there’s much more to it than that, and soon he and his pregnant wife, Teresa, are both under suspicion.

    Ali owes Reyes a debt of gratitude for the help he gave her years earlier. When she’s summoned to his bedside at Mercy Medical Center in Tucson, it’s impossible for Ali to turn away. Upon arriving at the hospital, Ali finds her good friend, Sister Anselm, is there as well, working as a patient advocate on behalf of another seriously injured victim, an unidentified border crosser who was raped and savagely beaten.

    As more bodies begin to pile up, Ali becomes determined to seek justice, even when it becomes impossible to know where the danger is coming from. Fast-paced, tension-filled, and intriguingly complex, Left for Dead is J.A. Jance at her riveting best.
    LanguageEnglish
    PublisherSimon & Schuster Audio
    Release dateFeb 7, 2012
    ISBN9781442346246
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    J.A. Jance

    J.A. Jance is the New York Times bestselling author of the Ali Reynolds series, the J.P. Beaumont series, the Joanna Brady series, and the Walker Family series. Born in South Dakota and raised in Bisbee, Arizona, Jance lives with her husband in Seattle, Washington. Visit her online at JAJance.com. 

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    • 2/5
      To much useless information... And the book don't bind you quickly, it was a struggle to finish it.
    • 3/5
      I liked the story but felt there were too many sub plots. Too many names that sounded alike I had to keep pausing to figure out who the character was.
    • 5/5
      There were lots of characters and a complicated plot line that kept my attention completely. Plus I didn’t see the end coming but the clues were all there.
    • 5/5
      This book starts off sedately enough with Ali Reynolds stuck, as usual, over which of two girls should receive the Askins Scholarship, for which Ali is responsible for awarding. The action picks up almost immediately in two side tales as a seventeen-year-old prostitute is left in the dessert to die and a sheriff's deputy is shot by an unknown assailant. The officer is a friend of Ali's, and she goes to the hospital to help his distraught wife deal with a gravely injured husband, two little girls and the impending birth of a new baby. In the meantime, Ali's good friend, Sister Anselm is the patient advocate for the critically injured prostitute. Their stories intertwine and more murder and mayhem ensue throughout the book. The book provides tense reading and is not recommended for bedtime relaxation. If suspense is to your liking, then this will be the perfect book to provide it.
    • 3/5
      Sleepy Santa Cruz County Arizona has suddenly broken out in mayhem. A small-time pimp is found dead in his car. A border patrol officer discovers a teenage girl, savagely beaten and left to die in the remote desert. A young county cop is shot down in a routine traffic stop gone awry. And that’s just the beginning of the body count in what turns out – even with all the violence – to be a tepid and overplotted mystery-without-mystery and suspense-without-suspense novel.J.A. Jance is a prolific writer of crime novels, with her Joanna Brady series arguably the best of the bunch. But she may be spreading herself too thin with the Ali Reynolds books in addition to the J.P. Beaumont and Walker family mystery series.Reynolds is essentially just a marginal figure here as various friends and acquaintances try to figure out why the injured policeman is being painted as a cop gone bad, and how to keep the beating victim alive long enough to identify her assailant. Most of the law enforcement figures in the book are painted as either crooked, lazy, or dim, and of course it’s up to Reynolds and the other characters (mostly the other characters) to unravel the tangle.
    • 4/5
      As usual, with Left For Dead, J. A. Jance gives listeners a tense time as she weaves the threads of her subplots together. Although the perpetrator of one of the crimes was obvious before CD 6, there was always the chance that worse could come. Does it ever! Not all of the subplots have happy endings, but there are enough of them to make all that tension worth getting through.I'll leave it up to you to find out the fate of the foolish runaway-turned-prostitute, Ali Reynold's injured cop friend and his family, and the postal worker with the tragic past. There will also be a change on the home front.I'll reassure my fellow dog lovers up front that all will be well with the book's Jack Russell terrier.
    • 4/5
      Synopsis:Ali Reynolds is perfectly happy dealing with renovations to her gardens and determining who will be the next winner of a scholarship. However, when one of her classmates from the police academy is shot, she goes to the hospital to help support the family. There she meets her friend, Sister Anselm who is serving as a patient advocate for a Jane Doe. Together, they are plunged into danger from drug lords.Review: The tension in this story was established through wondering if the 'bad guy' would be caught. I knew, almost immediately with the introduction of the character, who was behind the drugs and murders. However, it's a well written tale and well worth reading.
    • 5/5
      In Jance’s mystery novel, Ali Reynolds is contacted by a former Arizona Police Academy classmate regarding an incident involving another former classmate who has just been gun downed and left for dead. Initially, circumstances point to an association with one of the drug cartels. But as the scene of the crime is processed, it becomes clear there is much more to the story. With a need to pay it forward, Ali finds herself at her fallen friend’s bedside where she encounters an unidentified young woman, who had been raped and beaten. Determined to ensure that justice is served, Ali sets out on a mission to zero in on the truth regardless of the consequences.Never a disappointment, the book starts fast and keeps going to the climax. An exceptional addition to the Ali Reynolds series.
    • 5/5
      This book starts off sedately enough with Ali Reynolds stuck, as usual, over which of two girls should receive the Askins Scholarship, for which Ali is responsible for awarding. The action picks up almost immediately in two side tales as a seventeen-year-old prostitute is left in the dessert to die and a sheriff's deputy is shot by an unknown assailant. The officer is a friend of Ali's, and she goes to the hospital to help his distraught wife deal with a gravely injured husband, two little girls and the impending birth of a new baby. In the meantime, Ali's good friend, Sister Anselm is the patient advocate for the critically injured prostitute. Their stories intertwine and more murder and mayhem ensue throughout the book. The book provides tense reading and is not recommended for bedtime relaxation. If suspense is to your liking, then this will be the perfect book to provide it.
    • 4/5
      A young call girl is repeatedly violated, then left for dead in the Arizona desert. Meanwhile, a young deputy is badly assaulted on what he thought was a routine traffic stop, and drugs are found in his car. Ali Reynolds and her friend Sister Anselm wind up in the middle of things.More of a mystery than this series usually is, although I identified the unknown villain fairly early on.