Kiss of the Bees w-2

by J. A. Jance

  I went to the bedroom, worrying about whether or not I’d be able to summon the same kind of magic that had sustained me while I was writing Hour of the Hunter. I went to the bookshelf and took down a copy of Harold Bell Wright’s Long Ago Told, where I had found the legends that had been woven into the background of my first thriller.

  Getting into bed, I allowed the book to fall open. I found myself reading a legend about a woman who, in a time of terrible drought, was saved from death by the beating of the wings of a huge swarm of bees. When the drought was over and the woman was still alive, she went on to become the Tohono O’Odham’s greatest medicine woman. As soon as I read that story, I leaped out of bed and went to tell my husband, “The magic’s back. Now I can write this book.”

  Not only was the magic back, it had given me my title, Kiss of the Bees.

  About the Author

  J. A. Jance is the American Mystery Award-winning author of the J.P. Beaumont series as well as eight enormously popular novels featuring small-town Arizona sheriff Joanna Brady. She has also written two critically acclaimed thrillers, Kiss of the Bees and Hour of the Hunter. Jance was born in South Dakota, brought up in Bisbee, Arizona, and now lives with her husband in Seattle, Washington.

  Also by J.A. Jance

  HOUR OF THE HUNTER

  Joanna Brady Mysteries

  DESERT HEAT

  TOMBSTONE COURAGE

  SHOOT/DON’T SHOOT

  DEAD TO RIGHTS

  SKELETON CANYON

  RATTLESNAKE CROSSING

  OUTLAW MOUNTAIN

  DEVIL’S CLAW

  J.P. Beaumont Mysteries

  UNTIL PROVEN GUILTY

  INJUSTICE FOR ALL

  TRIAL BY FURY

  TAKING THE FIFTH

  IMPROBABLE CAUSE

  A MORE PERFECT UNION

  DISMISSED WITH PREJUDICE

  MINOR IN POSSESSION

  PAYMENT IN KIND

  WITHOUT DUE PROCESS

  FAILURE TO APPEAR

  LYING IN WAIT

  NAME WITHHELD

  BREACH OF DUTY

  And in Hardcover

  BIRDS OF PREY

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