When Seattle investigator J.P. Beaumont is given a classified assignment involving the true fate of a deceased ex-con, he discovers that the victim had recently attempted to turn his life around and had been murdered for the effort.

An eyewitness comes forward to report the details of a fifty-year-old murder and J.P. Beaumont gets the decades old case as the investigation brings him close to a band of powerful co-conspirators who are determined to keep their deadly secrets silent.

Seattle police detective J.P. Beaumont, on the search for a clever killer must cope with an excess of suspects, a vanished witness, and his own personal demons.

When Brenda Riley, a colleague from Ali's old news broadcasting days in California, shows up in town with an alcohol problem and an unlikely story about a missing fianc�e, Ali reluctantly agrees to help. The man posing as Brenda's fianc�e is revealed to be Richard Lowensdale, a cyber-sociopath who has left a trail of broken hearts in his virtual wake. When he is viciously murdered, the police soon focus their investigation on Brenda.

A five-year-old boy becomes J.P. Beaumont's only hope of clearing the name of his friend, Officer Ben Weston, when Weston's murder brings out accusations of the dead man's connection with Seattle's gangs.

"A desperate father's search for his runaway daughter has led him to the last place he ever expected to find her: backstage at the Oregon Shakespeare Festival. But the murders in this dazzling world of make-believe are no mere stagecraft, and the blood is all too real. The hunt for his child has plunged former Seattle Homicide Detective J.P. Beaumont into a bone-chilling drama of revenge, greed, and butchery, where innocents are made to suffer in...

Cochise County sheriff Joanna Brady reluctantly joins forces with J.P. Beaumont, a member of Washington State's Special Homicide Investigation team, when a promising African-American artist, supposedly under the protection of the government, is murdered shortly after moving to Bisbee, Arizona.

It was like a scene from a movie: the beautiful blond screaming on a Washington beach, a dead man lying at her feet; the dashing Homicide detective arriving to offer kindness and solace to the distressed lady. What it wasn't was a restful vacation for J.P.Beaumont. And now a murderous mix of politics and passion is turning Beau's holiday into a nightmare, and leading the dedicated Seattle cop into the path of a killer whose bloodlust is rapidly becoming...