num_pages: 304
description: When violence from the drug wars with the Mexican cartels crosses the border into Arizona and an old friend is murdered Ali Reynolds steps in to investigate in New York Times bestselling author J.A. Jances fast-paced mystery.Santa Cruz county deputy sheriff Jose Reyes one of Ali Reynoldss classmates from the Arizona Police Academy is gunned down and left to die. He is at first assumed to be an innocent victim of the drug wars escalating across the border. But the crime scene investigation shows theres much more to it than that and soon he and his pregnant wife Teresa are both under suspicion.Ali owes Reyes a debt of gratitude for the help he gave her years earlier. When shes summoned to his bedside at Mercy Medical Center in Tucson its impossible for Ali to turn away. Upon arriving at the hospital Ali finds her good friend Sister Anselm is there as well working as a patient advocate on behalf of another seriously injured victim a young and unidentified border crosser who was raped and savagely beaten.As more bodies begin to pile up Ali becomes determined to seek justice even when it becomes impossible to know where the danger is coming from. Fast-paced tension-filled and intriguingly complex Left for Dead is J.A. Jance at her riveting best.
language: English
title: Left for Dead
publisher: Gallery Books