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High Quality Content by WIKIPEDIA articles! Yancy Victoria Butler (born July 2, 1970; Greenwich Village, New York City) is an American television and movie actress. She is the daughter of Joe Butler, drummer for the sixties rock group The Lovin' Spoonful. As an actress she's best known for her role as Det. Sara "Pez" Pezzini on the TNT supernatural drama Witchblade. Butler's first major role was in the television series Mann & Machine in 1992, in which she played an android police officer partnered with a human detective. The series was set in Los Angeles in the near future. The series was co-created by Dick Wolf, of Law & Order fame. A year later, she starred in her second series, South Beach also for Dick Wolf, in which she played a con artist and thief who made a deal with the federal government: in exchange for their wiping of her criminal record, she performs certain tasks for them. Seven episodes of this series were produced, but only six were broadcast. ... Read more

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High Quality Content by WIKIPEDIA articles! Hard Target is a 1993 American action film directed by Chinese director John Woo. The film stars Jean-Claude Van Damme as Chance Boudreaux, an out-of-work Cajun merchant seaman who saves a young woman, Natasha Binder (Yancy Butler), from a gang of thugs in New Orleans. Chance learns that Binder is searching for her missing father (Chuck Pfarrer), and agrees to aid Binder in her search. Boudreaux and Binder soon learn that Binder's father has died at the hands of wealthy sportsman Emil Fouchon who hunts homeless men as a form of recreation. Hard Target was John Woo's first American film and was also the first major Hollywood film made by a Chinese director. Universal Pictures was nervous on having Woo direct a feature, and sent in director Sam Raimi to look over the film's production and to take Woo's place as director if he were to fail. ... Read more

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Each story is better than the next!
Fabulous collection of suspenseful stories -- many with realistic surprise endings and some with a whimsical flavor. If this was a paper book, it would be a real "page turner"... ... Read more

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Jance's seventh book, Outlaw Mountain, begins with the death of anold woman who was injured when she fell on a poisonous cholla cactus. But it isn'tthe plant that finishes off Alice Rogers; the lively, free-spirited widowismurdered by someone who injects her as she lies writhing in pain. NowJoanna has to find out whether anyone in Alice's large family would have killed herfor her land and money. Was it her son Cletus, "a restaurateur with thediplomacy of a mountain goat," who was recently elected mayor of thelegendary Arizona town of Tombstone (where Wyatt Earp once reigned)? Ordidthe murder have something to do with a local political power struggle? Asshe has done so well before, Jance balances scenes full of action andexcitement with more intimate moments.--Dick Adler ... Read more

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#7 disappoints
#7 left me wanting, after thoroughly enjoying #6.Outlaw Mountain was too much too fast on Joanna's personal life. Too much w. Junior. Everything wraps up so awfully easily. Not equal to the satisfying complexity of the Sheriff Brady mysteries I've been thus far enjoying this Summer. I'm not crazy about the suddenly-there, perfect Butch or how quickly Joann's remarrying.It doesn't ring true.I'll go on to Devil's Claw and hope it's better.

about Rattlesnake Crossing
I really enjoy J.A.Jance's writing style. When the murder in this book occurred, I didn't know if I should be horrified or laugh at the situation. It was a nearly hysterical moment in an otherwise gruesome event. The situation for Joanna Brady never got any less dire as the story continued. As always, J.A.Jance kept me turning pages well beyond the time that I should close the book and sleep.

Love Joanna Brady
the standard characters are well maintained and well developed.Having lived in Arizona for 26 years, I can see the desert AND feel the heat.At the beginning there are three different murders, plus pregancy.It all works out and I can't wait for the next book.A good bedtime read.

Layers of Shadow
A long time fan of Joanna Brady, Outlaw Mountain was a disappointment. Brutal murder, that is solved much to soon while Joanna's personal life takes center stage. Don't we all wish life were easy to deal with as Joanna finds happiness while gaining job confidence and respect of her colleagues.
Good light reading while waiting at the airport for a delayed flight, but not up to the complexity of the usual J.A. Jance mystery.
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Could Not Put It Down
Filled with suspense and twists and turns. I also enjoy the way in which Jance brings in the personal day to day life of the Brady and her family. Just enough soap opera without going over the edge. ... Read more

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Jance has a talent for weaving prosaic threads into a gripping mysterynarrative.As a result, Brady must--in addition to tracking a viciouskiller--cope with the impossibly high standards of her insufferablemother; the spiteful comments of Marliss Shackleford, an old high schoolrival and current gossip columnist for the Bisbee Bee; and somerather unexpected news from Butch Dixon, her would-be ardent suitor.Aswith earlier Brady mysteries, the domestic context provides a deliciouslyironic backdrop for the game of psychological cat-and-mouse being played inthe Arizona desert. --Kelly Flynn ... Read more

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6th installment kept me riveted
Thoroughly enjoyable!Jance steps up the game a bit with a series of brutal scalpings and murders.I enjoyed the continuity of the mystery thread and the personal development of Sheriff Brady's life.This is a well-wrought blend of characterization and plot.

One of the better ones in the series
This is book 6 in the series of Sheriff Joanna Brady of Bisbee, AZ.Being familiar with the locale has given my husband and I a lot of enjoyment as we can visualize where they are in various crime scenes or chases. In this one, a serial killer is shooting and scalping victims, and a normally sleepy town is suddenly the epicenter of several gruesome deaths. Sheriff Brady is a capable, strong and likeable woman.Her blossoming relationship with Butch Dixon kicks up a notch as he sells his restaurant/bar in Phoenix and moves to Bisbee in hopes of escalating his relationship with Joanna, a widow who's husband was killed in the line of duty in book #1 Desert Heat.

This is a good series, characters are believable and likeable. Jance's style is clean, no graphically-detailed ugliness, sex or profanity, but yet emotionally draws the reader into the situations. Reading them in order is best, but not necessary as Jance gives a little background in each one, so if you are picking up one of hers for the first time you won't be lost.This one moved along at a good pace and was one of our favorites.

Rattlesnake Crossing
J.A. Jance has never written a bad book.This is one of the better ones. Her Joanna Brady series are the best..........

A Killer is Loose
The idea of a serial killer on the loose has been done to death. The bodies are stacking up like cord wood and there doesn't seem to be an end in sight. RATTLESNAKE CROSSING gives fans the impression Ms. Jance was under contract obligations to meet a deadline and cranked out a pot boiler.
It didn't have the spark of expert craftsmanship that others of both of her series have exhibited. It is difficult to pin point what is missing except that both Joanna and her supporting characters seemed static. But as part of the series Jance is forgiven and we'll be back for more cases that involve a favorite lady sheriff.
Then maybe I'm just tired of killers who kill to kill after listening to the news on a daily basis.
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From an avid J A Jance fan
This author keeps me on the edge of my seat no matter how many times I read and reread her works of art. Thank-you ... Read more

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Playaway is the easiest way to listen to a book on the go. An all-in-one format, the player and content are combined in one 2 ounce unit and it comes with everything you need to start listening immediately. No separate player needed, no CDs, no downloadsjust press play!

From award-winning mystery author J.A. Jance comes the seventh novel featuring Bisbee, Arizona's star sleuth -- the courageous and capable Sheriff Joanna Brady. When a wealthy widow is mysteriously murdered, Joanna has more than enough suspects. As she struggles to determine which one is capable of murder, Joanna uncovers a tangled web of graft and corruption that goes straight to the heart of the local government. Caught between her own friends and foes, and juggling single motherhood with a demanding career, Joanna turns to her network of friends and makes her way through a minefield of conflicting loyalties to solve one of the most difficult -- and dangerous -- cases she's ever faced. ... Read more

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