Ruby Sisson Library

The end of her high-profile broadcasting career came too soon for TV journalist Alison Reynolds-bounced off the air by executives who wanted a "younger face." With a divorce from her cheating husband of ten years also pending, there is nothing keeping her in L.A. any longer. Cut loose from her moorings, Ali is summoned back home to Sedona, Arizona, by the death of a childhood friend. Once there she seeks solace in the comforting rhythms of her parents'...

Jance keeps former L.A. TV news anchor Ali Reynolds in her native Arizona for her third lead appearance (following Web of Evil). Ali, still recovering from the murder of her not-quite-ex-husband, is aided by her parents and her old high school chum, newly divorced detective and marine reservist Dave Holman. Meanwhile, wealthy, reclusive Arabella Ashcroft, whose family's college scholarship program supported Ali as an undergrad, has read Ali's grief-filled...

Ali Reynolds begins the summer thinking her most difficult challenge will be surviving a six-week- long course as the lone forty-something female at the Arizona Police Academyńot to mention taking over the 6:00 AM shift at her familyś restaurant while her parents enjoy a long overdue Caribbean cruise. However, when Brenda Riley, a colleague from Aliś old news broadcasting days in California, shows up in town with an alcohol problem and an unlikely...

Ali Reynolds is contacted to investigate the murder of a gold-digging divorcě on behalf of Lynn Martinson who is dating the dead woman's ex-husband, when she becomes drawn to the case of A.J. Sanders, a frightened teen with secrets of his own, after he finds the body in the desert while retrieving a mysterious box buried by his absent father.

When Alison Reynolds is ousted from a television job in Los Angeles, she heads to Sedona, Arizona to investigate the death of her closest friend. The police believe the friend committed suicide by driving off a mountain road, but Alison thinks it was murder.

Sheriff Joanna Brady has a lot on her plate--she is up for re-election as sheriff, pregnant with her third child, and her eldest is packing up to leave for college. Then Joanna is woken in the middle of the night by a call reporting a motor vehicle accident. Her mother and stepfathers RV ran off the road at high speed and hit the pillar of an overpass. Something about the accident seems suspicious, though, and when Joanna gets a call from Ali Reynolds,...