J. P. Beaumont mysteries
Lurking in the dark corners of this bizarre case was not just a demented mind obsessed with murder...but secrets so deadly that even a street-tough cop could die guessing.
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.
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 must find the killers of an entire family before they get to his 5-year-old eye-witness who was hiding in a closet at the murder scene.
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.
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.
16) Partner in crime
Rochelle Baxter, an up-and-coming artist in Cochise County, Arizona, dies mysteriously the night before her first gallery opening gala. The fact that her death is probably a homicide isn't such a surprise to Sheriff Joanna Brady. But Rochelle Baxter was a former Marine M.P.-living under a Washington State witness protection program. Outraged that his star witness in a private-prison corruption scandal has been rubbed out, the Washington State attorney
...17) Long time gone
When a middle-aged nun unexpectedly recalls the grisly details of an unsolved murder she witnessed as a child, Special Homicide Investigation Team member J. P. Beaumont finds himself wrapped in a case where a band of powerful co-conspirators are willing to go to any length to keep their deadly secrets hidden. Meanwhile, Beau's former partner Ron Peters becomes the prime suspect after his ex-wife is killed. Barred from any official involvement in
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