Smoke and Mirrors

The next installment in J.A. Jance's New York Times bestselling and heart-pounding Ali Reynolds mystery series!

A disgraced former TV anchor dies in a remote Nevada crash—but her family refuses to believe it was an accident.

When Holly Holbrook is killed shortly after pursuing a decades-old media scandal, her son Dave and grandmother begin digging for answers, uncovering evidence she was deliberately run off the road. Their search pulls in Ali Reynolds, a former anchor turned cybersecurity executive—and one of the last people to see Holly alive.

What starts as a suspicious death quickly unravels into something far bigger: a buried murder, a powerful network tied to drug trafficking, and a pattern of women silenced when they get too close to the truth. As digital forensics, old secrets, and relentless determination converge, the trio finds themselves facing a ruthless adversary who has spent years hiding in plain sight—and will kill again to stay that way.

Smoke and Mirrors is a high-stakes thriller about power, corruption, and the dangerous cost of exposing the truth.

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 the Walker Family series. Born in South Dakota and raised in Bisbee, Arizona, Jance lives with her husband in Seattle, Washington. Visit her online at JAJance.com.