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Originally Posted by sufue
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I started reading JA Jance back in the early days of her JP Beaumont series, and have stuck with her through JP Beaumont and Joanna Brady. As you can tell from reading the blurbs, Beaumont is a homicide investigator in cold, rainy Seattle, and Brady becomes a sheriff in hot Arizona after her sheriff husband is killed.
I probably like the Brady series a smidge more, because my dad's family is from the southwest, and I'm big on enjoying the settings of the books I read. (Although strangely enough, I like both familiar settings, where I have lived or traveled a lot, and exotic settings, where I get to daydream/learn about someplace I've never been. I guess I just don't like boring settings  .) Anyway both Beaumont and Brady are good series IMO.
I've somehow never read much of Jance's Ali Reynolds series, or the Ladd/Walker series, and I'm not quite sure why, It's probably mostly that with the huge increase in availability due to ebooks, I've just always had other series to read. It's not that I've read and disliked either series, I've just never really gotten started.
One other thought, I started reading these in DTB days, when my reading order was determined by which ones I found in my local used bookstores. So I can say for sure that there are a few major events, especially in the Beaumont series, that will be sort of spoilers for later books. So if you care about such things, you might try to read in order.
I hope this helps - I think you could be guided by your personal taste - rainy vs. hot, guy detective vs. lady sheriff, etc. - and see if you like Jance's writing. And I'm sorry I can't offer an opinion on the other two series... |
Thank you, a huge help I love landscape playing a part in books, it’s a huge factor in determining what I’m going to read it doesn’t matter to me whether hot/cold city/country as long as it’s really vividly written. I think I’ll start with Beaumont and Brady and read in publication date order
