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Author
Series
Publisher
Severn House
Pub. Date
2003
Physical Desc
384 p. ; 23 cm.
Language
English
Description
A gripping tale of hatred, lies, and deadly tradition featuring Seattle detective J.P. Beaumont.
The blood at the scene belies any suggestion of an "honorable death." Yet, to the eyes of the Seattle police, a successful Japanese software magnate died exactly as he wished-and by his own hand, according to the ancient rite of seppuku. Homicide Detective J.P. Beaumont can't dismiss what he sees as an elaborate suicide, however, not when something...
Author
Series
Publisher
Severn House
Pub. Date
2000, c1986
Physical Desc
376 p. ; 23 cm.
Language
English
Description
FuryThe body lying naked and dead in a Seattle Dumpster was a shock. But even more shocking was the manner in which he died. The victim, a high school coach, was lynched, a grim echo from a dark past, leaving behind a very pregnant wife with a very dangerous secret. And a sixth sense developed over twenty years on the job tells Homicide detective J.P. Beamont that this investigation is going to the lethal extremes: of passion, lies and hatred, of...
Author
Series
Publisher
W. Morrow
Pub. Date
c1992
Edition
1st ed.
Physical Desc
302 p. ; 25 cm.
Language
English
Description
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.
Author
Series
Publisher
Avon Books
Pub. Date
[1994]
Physical Desc
322 p. ; 18 cm.
Language
English
Description
"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...
Author
Series
Publisher
Avon Books
Pub. Date
1996, c1994
Physical Desc
386 pages ; 17 cm.
Language
English
Description
The sky above Puget Sound blazes orange, as a burning fishing boat fills the air with acrid smoke . . . and the sickening odor of charred flesh. The terrible death of a Seattle fisherman has raised more questions than answers, opening a Pandora’s Box of evil that was kept tightly closed for more than half a century. Now a dark cloud is descending over the dead man’s frightened widow, and she must turn for help to an old friend, Detective J.P....
11) Breach of Duty
Author
Series
J. P. Beaumont mysteries volume 14
Publisher
Books in Motion
Edition
Unabridged
Language
English
Description
The Seattle that Beau knew as a young policeman is disappearing. The city is awash in the aromas emanating from a glut of coffee bars, the neighborhood outside his condo building has sprouted gallery upon gallery, and even his long cherished diner has evolved into a trendy eatery for local hipsters. But the glam is strictly surface, for the grit under the city's fingernails is caked with blood. Beau and his new partner Sue Danielson, a struggling...
12) Partner in crime
Author
Series
Publisher
William Morrow
Pub. Date
c2002
Edition
1st ed.
Physical Desc
370 p. 24 cm.
Language
English
Description
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.
13) Partner in Crime
Author
Series
Publisher
Books in Motion
Edition
Unabridged
Language
English
Description
For the first time, critically acclaimed, New York Times bestselling suspense master J.A. Jance brings together her two most beloved creations: Arizona sheriff Joanna Brady and Seattle investigator J.P. Beaumont. The dead woman on a cold slab in the Arizona morgue was a talented artist recently arrived from the West Coast. The Washington State Attorney General's office thinks this investigation is too big for a small-town female law officer to handle,...
14) Long time gone
Author
Series
Publisher
William Morrow
Pub. Date
c2005
Edition
1st ed.
Physical Desc
339 p. ; 24 cm.
Language
English
Description
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.
15) Justice denied
Author
Series
Pub. Date
c2007
Language
English
Formats
Description
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.
16) Fire and ice
Author
Series
Publisher
William Morrow
Pub. Date
c2009
Edition
1st ed.
Physical Desc
338 p. ; 24 cm.
Language
English
Description
Seattle investigator J.P. Beaumont uncovers a surprising link between a series of Washington murders and the hit-and-run death of the elderly caretaker of an ATV park in Arizona, and is thrown together with sheriff Joanna Brady once more, and as the couple searches for the killer, the sparks that once flew between them are reignited.
Author
Series
J. P. Beaumont mysteries volume 20
J.P. Beaumont detective volume 14
Betrayal of trust volume 14
J.P. Beaumont volume 20
J.P. Beaumont detective volume 14
Betrayal of trust volume 14
J.P. Beaumont volume 20
Publisher
William Morrow
Pub. Date
c2011
Edition
1st ed.
Physical Desc
344 p. ; 24 cm.
Language
English
Description
At first glance, what happens on the video appears to be a childish game: a teenage girl with dark, wavy hair smiles for the camera, a blue scarf tied around her neck. Then things turn dark and gruesome, and the girl ends up dead. When a snuff film is discovered on a cell phone belonging to the governor of Washington State's grandson—a boy with a troubled background who swears he doesn't know the victim—the governor turns to an old friend, J....
18) Second Watch
Author
Series
Publisher
HarperAudio
Pub. Date
2013
Edition
Unabridged
Language
English
Description
With Second Watch, New York Times bestselling author J. A. Jance delivers another thought-provoking novel of suspense starring Seattle investigator J. P. Beaumont.
Second Watch shows Beaumont taking some time off to get knee replacement surgery, but instead of taking his mind off work, the operation plunges him into one of the most perplexing mysteries he's ever faced.
His past collides with his present in this complex and thrilling story that...
19) Second watch
Author
Series
Language
English
Formats
Description
Getting old is hell. J. P. Beaumont is finally taking some time off to have knee-replacement surgery. But instead of taking his mind off work, the operation plunges him into one of the most perplexing and mind-blowing mysteries he's ever faced.
A series of dreams takes him back to his early days on the force with the Seattle PD, and then even earlier, to his days in Vietnam, reminding him of people and events he hasn't thought about in years. Are...
Author
Series
J. P. Beaumont mysteries volume 5
Publisher
HarperAudio
Pub. Date
2015
Edition
Unabridged
Language
English
Description
J.P. Beaumont and Brandon Walker, two of New York Times bestselling author J. A. Jance's most acclaimed series characters, join forces for the first time in one of the most suspenseful works of her career. Years ago, Amos Warren, a prospector, was gunned down out in the desert and Sheriff Brandon Walker made the arrest in the case. Now, the retired Walker is called in when the alleged killer, John Lassiter, refuses to accept a plea deal that would...
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