J. P. Beaumont mysteries
"Any story by Jance is a joy."
—Chattanooga Times
Now fans of the enormously popular Sheriff Joanna Brady suspense series by J.A. Jance can discover another side to the acclaimed New York Times bestselling author. Until Proven Guilty—a riveting tale of the very worst kind of murder—marks the debut of Seattle Homicide Detective J.P. Beaumont. This Premium Plus edition of Until Proven Guilty—the
...The body lay amid the garbage behind a Seattle grocery store. It was a high school basketball coach - he had been lynched.
Homicide Detective Beaumont had little to go on - a body, definitely male and decidedly dead, with strange little puncture wounds.
Beaumont has a dead dentist on his hands. His suspects include a sexually abused dental assistant, a brutalized wife, and her ex-con lover.
When too many bodies start showing up around a skeletal skyscraper structure, the ironworkers union come under suspicion.
Homicide detective Beaumont investigates the death of a Japanese-American businessman. The case appears to be a Samuri suicide.
Beaumont's trip to Arizona turns into a nightmare when he is framed for the murder of a sleazy, teen-age drug dealer.
The bloody corpses in the broom closet of a Seattle School District building looked like a classic crime of passion, but 20-year-old clues pointed to something much more sinister.
Beaumont's teenaged daughter has run off and her tracks lead to the Oregon Shakespeare Festival and a case of murder.
12) Lying in Wait
A shadow from Beaumont's past shows up after 30 years, an ex-girlfriend - whose husband has been brutally murdered.
13) Name Withheld
Beaumont is called in to investigate a body floating in nearby Elliott Bay. The case draws Seattle’s favorite detective into the cutting-edge world of biotechnology with personal betrayals and the selling of trade secrets.
14) Breach of Duty
When J.P. Beaumont and his new partner Sue Danielson are assigned the murder of an elderly woman torched to death in her bed, the pair find themselves caught up in a series of events that could shatter their investigation.
Cutting himself loose from the Seattle police force, semi-retirement takes Beau on a cruise, where the ex-wife of on-board conference speaker Dr. Harrison Featherman disappears.
16) Partner in crime
An up-and-coming African American artist has been murdered on Sheriff Joanna Brady's turf in Cochise County, Arizona. Unfortunately the victim happens to be in the Washington State Attorney General's Witness Protection Program. As the most recent hire in AG's Special Homicide Investigation Team, J.P. Beaumont gets the call. He reluctantly heads to Bisbee, Arizona where he tangles not only with Joanna Brady and a contract killer but with some of
...17) Long time gone
Fifty years ago, when she was five, Sister Mary Katherine witnessed something terrible . . .
A former Seattle policeman now working for the Washington State Attorney's Special Homicide Investigation Team, J.P. Beaumont has been hand-picked to lead the investigation into a half-century-old murder. An eyewitness to the crime, a middle-aged nun, has now recalled grisly, forgotten details while undergoing hypnotherapy.
It's a case as cold
...18) Justice denied
"In the gripping Fire and Ice, Jance showcases both Beaumont and Brady....The prolific Jance...is in fine form."
—Fort Lauderdale Sun-Sentinel
New York Times bestseller J.A. Jance reunites two of her most popular series characters—Cochise County Sheriff Joanna Brady and Seattle detective J.P. Beaumont—in Fire and Ice, as the separate investigations into grisly homicides in two different states shockingly
...23) Proof of life
An e-original novella from New York Times bestselling author J. A. Jance.
Life has shifted for J. P. Beaumont. After a tragic accident that devastated—and ultimately disbanded—his Special Homicide Investigation Team, he accepts that he has left homicide detection behind at this point, but he has a lot of unanticipated free time on his hands. He's keeping busy with renovations on the new house that he and his
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