DATE OF DISTRIBUTION: July 14, 2009           FOR RELEASE UPON RECEIPT

MYSTERY WRITER J.A. JANCE AT TIA
SUNDAY, AUGUST 2

      Ms. Jance will be signing copies of her newly released (expected July 21) book, Fire and Ice. This event takes place at The Paradies Shops in TIA’s main terminal, 7250 South Tucson Blvd., pre-security near the “A” gate security entrance. Parking will be validated. Copies of other J.A. Jance books will be available for sale on the day of the event.

      Fire and Ice is book 18 in the J P Beaumont series and is the second of Beaumont meets Brady stories.

Seattle investigator J. P. Beaumont is working a series of murders in which six young women have been wrapped in tarps, doused with gasoline, and set on fire. Their charred remains have been scattered around various dump sites, creating a grisly pattern of death across western Washington.

At the same time, thousands of miles away in the Arizona desert, Cochise County sheriff Joanna Brady is looking into a homicide in which the elderly caretaker of an ATV park was run over and left to die. All the man has left behind is his dog, who is the improbable witness to some kind of turf warfare - or possibly something more sinister.

Then a breakthrough in Beaumont's case leads him directly to the Southwest and into Brady's jurisdiction. When the two met on a joint investigation years earlier, sparks flew. Under different circumstances, both of them admit, even more could have happened.

But here, as the threads of their two seemingly separate cases wind together, Beaumont and Brady must put aside echoes of their shared past as they are once again drawn into an orbit of deception. Except this time it's not just their own lives that are in danger but those of the people closest to them as well.

      Also available, the fifth book in the Alison Reynolds series, Trial by Fire.

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