DEADLY STAKES

A thrilling mystery from New York Times bestselling author JA. Jance, starring All Reynolds, who finds herself working against the police to clear a woman‘s name in the face of counterfeiting, secret romance, and murder...with deadly stakes.

In Deadly Stakes, police academy-trained former reporter Ali Reynolds is contacted to investigate the grisly murder of a gold-digging divorcee on behalf of a woman accused of the crime. Lynn Martinson is dating the dead woman’s ex-husband, and she and her boyfriend Chip Ralston have been charged. Despite her uncertainty about the couple’s involvement in the killing, Ali agrees to work with the court-appointed defense attorney on Lynn’s behalf. Ali is simultaneously drawn to the case of A.J. Sanders, a frightened teen with secrets of his own. He’s the first to find the body in the Camp Verde desert when he goes to retrieve a mysterious buried box hidden by his absent father—a box that turns out to be filled with hundreds of thousands of dollars in poker chips. When the body of an ex-con is discovered near the first crime scene, Ali struggles to determine if A.J. and Lynn’s cases are related. And when A.J. is taken into police custody, she races to untangle the clues connecting former counterfeiters, antagonistic parents, desperate socialites, and Phoenix’s social elite with the help of her partner, security expert B, and his right-hand man Stuart. Though her friends in the police department grow increasingly irritated by her involvement with the cases, Ali must stop a deadly killer from claiming another victim…before she herself is lost in this game of deadly stakes.

J.A. Jance is the New York Times bestselling author of the Ali Reynolds series, the J.P. Beaumont series, the Joanna Brady series, and four interrelated Southwestern thrillers featuring the Walker family. Born in South Dakota and brought up in Bisbee, Arizona, Jance lives with her husband in Seattle, Washington, and Tuscon, Arizona.