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Book Review of Outlaw Mountain (Joanna Brady, Bk 7)

Outlaw Mountain (Joanna Brady, Bk 7)
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A nice episode in this series, with some suspense and lots of potential suspects. There's quite a bit of this book focused on Brady's personal life instead of the mystery. Jance does a good job gracefully filling in the backstory, so a new reader shouldn't have any problem picking up the threads if they choose. I found the subplot regarding Junior and the eventual solution to be awfully unbelievable, but it does sort of balance the murders, so there's that. The beginning scene, with poor Alice in the cholla, gave me the shudders. I have unfortunate experience with cholla so that was all too vivid. On the whole, it was an enjoyable few hours of reading, but I won't remember it six months from now.

ETA: I read it again at the end of 2019, since I decided to read the whole series in order. I was right, except for the cholla scene, I didn't remember it. Brady's personal problems seemed more intrusive to me this time around too. But it's still a good series.