Collateral Damage

Ali Reynolds Series, Book 17

By: J.A. Jance

Narrated by: Karen Ziemba

Ali Reynolds and High Noon Enterprises face the dangerous consequences of one man’s desperate search for revenge in this unputdownable thriller from J.A. Jance, the New York Times bestselling author who “has been delivering must-read books for a long time” (The Real Book Spy).

After spending twenty years behind bars, Frank Muñoz, a disgraced former cop, is out on parole and focused on just one thing: revenge. The wife who abandoned him after his arrest, the mistress who ratted him out for abetting a money-laundering scheme, the detectives who presided over his case all those years ago—they all have targets on their backs.

For Ali Reynolds, the first Christmas without her father is riddled with grief and uncertainty. And with her husband and founding partner of High Noon Enterprises, B. Simpson, preoccupied by an upcoming New Year’s trip to London, she is ready for a break. But when Stu Ramey barges into her home with grave news about a serious—and suspicious—accident on the highway to Phoenix involving B.’s car, things reach a breaking point.

At the hospital, a groggy, post-op B. insists that Ali take his place at a ransomware conference in London, as troubles brimming around High Noon come to light. But questions remain: Who would go to such lengths to cut the tech company from the picture? And what if Ali and the rest of the team are also in danger?

©2023 J.A. Jance (P)2023 Simon & Schuster, Inc.

JA Jance style always satisfying

There are always details on what seem to be ancillary characters, background info to bring the reader up to speed. But for a Jance novel that is what it is about, characters and giving each one life. That’s certainly true in this novel, but I find it satisfying in the end.

Collateral Damage

This was a very nice work by J. A. Jance. Maybe too many people in plot, but it was ok. As always your friend Patsy

Not enough Ali

Not the best in this series. Not enough of Ali and to many characters. Nevertheless a good yarn.

Good story line and it continues with characters.

loved it! It was great to listen to the story and easily pick up on the characters from her previous boost.

Jance Excels Again

Another great Jance book!
Someone should have told the performer how we in Arizona pronounce names.

Good Story. Not enough Ali and B.

Lovr JA Jance. This was a good book. it was disappointing, though how little there really was of Ali Reynolds and B in this book. I'm looking forward to the next Ali Reynolds story.

The usual fun listening

This story involves many different people and personalities, and each one is quite engaging and fun. I enjoyed every single minute. I highly recommend all of the Ali mystery books.

Great writing

I liked everything about this story. It was complex yet easy to follow, and it nearly had me in tears several times.

Left me wanting more

This is only my 2nd J.A. Jance novel but I far preferred the one I read previously. This story was slow and had too many trails all leading to the same place. It was a bit hard to keep up especially as an audio. I also felt that several of the more interesting lines of thought just got dropped with no satisfactory closure for example the cyber security line and the police looking into Ali just completely got dropped.
After the first novel I was excited to read another of this authors now I’m hesitant

Great read/listen as always

Great story and always fun to catching up with past characters. Only disappointment was I would have liked more time with B and Ali.