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Author
Series
Publisher
William Morrow
Pub. Date
[2001]
Language
English
Description
Former Homicide Detective J.P. Beaumont may have cut himself loose from the Seattle police force, but that doesn't mean he's out of the game. As he accompanies his grandmother and her new husband on their honeymoon cruise to Alaska, murder suddenly makes waves. Mistaken for an FBI agent, Beau is inadvertently drawn into the investigation, bringing his skill and sardonic humor to bear on a case where clues are few but suspects abound.
3) Second watch
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English
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Beaumont is 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, explore the staggering cost of war and the debts we owe those who served in the Vietnam War, and those in uniform today.
5) Fire and ice
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English
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Big-city homicide detective J.P. Beaumont and small-town sheriff/mom Joanna Brady join forces once again to solve a case involving a series of murders--six young women wrapped in tarps, doused with gasoline, and set on fire; and one elderly caretaker run over and left to die.
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Pub. Date
2017.
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English
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"Before he retired, J. P. Beaumont had looked forward to having his days all to himself. But too much free time doesnt suit a man used to brushing close to danger. When his longtime nemesis, retired Seattle crime reporter Maxwell Cole, dies in whats officially deemed to be an accidental fire, Beau is astonished to be dragged into the investigation at the request of none other than the deceased victim himself. In the process Beau learns that just because...
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Pub. Date
2015.
Language
English
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"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. Prospector Amos Warren and Big Bad John Lassiter, his young protege were as close as father and son until a violent argument tore them apart. The next day, Amos disappeared, never to be seen again. Years later, his bones were found in the desert....
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Series
Publisher
St. Martin's Press
Pub. Date
[1988]
Language
English
Description
Police Sergeant Lou Boldt heads a special task force within Seattle's Homicide bureau. His job: find and stop the Cross Killer, a twisted, perverse serial murderer who has eluded police for six months and paralyzed the city. But when a body washes up on the shore of Puget Sound, Boldt thinks the killer has finally made a mistake. This body shows some of the work of the Cross Killer-but a job badly botched. Did this woman die while trying to escape?...
10) Payment in kind
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Series
Publisher
Avon Books
Pub. Date
[1991]
Language
English
Description
When the corpses of a lusty school official and her security-guard lover are discovered in a school broom closet, and the prime suspect, Pete Kelsey, the woman's husband, proclaims his innocence, Detective J.P. Beaumont goes into action.
Author
Series
Walker family volume 1
Publisher
W. Morrow
Pub. Date
[1991]
Language
English
Description
The hunter is free to kill again -- and hour by hour, he draws closer . . .
The brilliant psychopath Andrew Carlisle spent only six years in prison for the brutal torture–murder of a young girl of the Tohono O'otham tribe. The testimony of Diana Ladd -- a teacher on the reservation -- put Carlisle behind bars, and now she can't ignore the dark, mystical signs that say a predator has returned to prowl the Arizona desert. Because no matter where...
12) Nothing to lose
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Series
Pub. Date
[2022]
Language
English
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Description
Twenty years after he lost his partner Susan to her husband's murderous rage, Beau is drawn into a missing persons case when Susan's son needs his help, becoming tangled in a web of family secrets where a killer with nothing left to lose waits to take another life.
14) Partner in crime
Author
Publisher
William Morrow
Pub. Date
[2002]
Language
English
Description
Sent to Cochise County in Arizona by the Washington State attorney general to investigate the murder of a star witness, J.P. Beaumont teams up with Sheriff Joanna Brady and is surprised to find in her a savvy fellow detective.
Author
Series
Publisher
Morrow
Pub. Date
[1994]
Language
English
Description
In Seattle, police detective J.P. Baumont investigates the gruesome murder--toes and fingers chopped--of a fishing boat captain. It turns out the man's father was a guard in a World War II concentration camp and may have stolen a fortune in gold from the prisoners.
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English
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Product tampering. Innocent lives. Nice suburban homes. A Seattle food company is victim to an ingenious extortion that has the FBI two steps behind. Seattle's veteran homicide sergeant, Lou Boldt, and police psychologist Daphne Matthews approach the case from opposite ends: one undearthing micoscopic evidence, the other putting together a chilling psychological profile of a man willing to contaminate and kill if necessary.
The cop Daphne Matthews...
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Series
Pub. Date
[2019]
Language
English
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Description
Agreeing to help an acquaintance from the past track down a missing child, Beau launches an investigation that forces him to confront his troubled past.
Former Seattle homicide cop J. P. Beaumont, is learning to enjoy the new realities of retirement-- doing morning crossword puzzles by a roaring fireplace; playing frisbee with his new dog; having quiet lunches with his still working wife. When an acquaintance from long ago, Alan Dale, shows up on...
19) Taking the fifth
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English
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Seattle Homicide Detective J.P. Beaumont thought he had seen all the bizarre and terrible ways to die until he saw this body. The murder weapon was an elegant woman's shoe, its stiletto heel gruesomely caked with blood. Beaumont finds the scent of a stylish killer is pulling him into a world of drugs, corruption, and murder.
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English
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It was a final moment grimly preserved for all the world to see: a front-page photo of a young woman plunging to her death from the upper stories of an unfinished skyscraper. It might have been a suicide - but the look of sheer terror frozen on the woman's face suggests otherwise to Seattle Homicide Detective J.P. Beaumont.
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