J.A. Jance
Book List
65 titles
65 titles
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Proof of Life
Thriller
Sep-2017
J.P. Beaumont - 22
J. P. Beaumont’s latest investigation strikes too close to home in this riveting mystery from New York Times bestselling author J. A. Jance.Be careful what you wish for . . . Before he retired, J. P. Beaumont had looked forward to having his days a...
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Man Overboard
Thriller
Mar-2017
Ali Reynolds - 12
In New York Times bestselling author J.A. Jance’s gripping new thriller, Man Overboard, two tech geniuses face off -- one intent on saving lives, the other on ending them. Cybersecurity expert Roger McGeary finally has his life back on track aft...
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Downfall
Thriller
Sep-2016
Joanna Brady - 15
Arizona sheriff Joanna Brady returns in this outstanding new mystery set in the beautiful desert country of the Southwest.With a baby on the way, sudden deaths in the family from which to recover, a re-election campaign looming, and a daughter headin...
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Random Acts
Mystery
Jul-2016
Joanna Brady - 14.5
Sheriff Joanna Brady and investigator Ali Reynolds join forces to solve a crime that has hit dangerously close to home. Sheriff Joanna Brady has a lot on her plate -- she is up for re-election as sheriff, pregnant with her third child, and her eld...
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Claw Back
Thriller
Mar-2016
Ali Reynolds - 11
In New York Times bestselling author J.A. Jance’s latest thriller, Ali Reynolds faces her most controversial mystery yet, solving the murder of a man whose Ponzi scheme bankrupted hundreds of people, and left them seeking justice…or revenge. W...
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No Honor Among Thieves
Thriller
Nov-2015
Ali Reynolds - 10.5
For the first time ever, Ali Reynolds and Joanna Brady, New York Times bestselling author J.A. Jance’s popular series sleuths, join forces to solve a terrifying crime in this exclusive e-novella that has everything you want in a thriller—page-tur...
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Dance of the Bones
Police/Detective/Law Enforcement
Sep-2015
J.P. Beaumont - 22
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. Al...
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Stand Down
Thriller
Jun-2015
J.P. Beaumont - 21.5
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...
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Cold Betrayal
Thriller
Mar-2015
Ali Reynolds - 10
Revenge isn’t the only dish served cold... Ali Reynolds’s longtime friend and Taser-carrying nun, Sister Anselm, rushes to the bedside of a young pregnant woman hospitalized for severe injuries after she was hit by a car on a deserted Arizona ...
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A Last Goodbye
Thriller
Dec-2014
Ali Reynolds - 9.5
New York Times bestselling author J.A. Jance brings her trademark breakneck pace to this fun and exciting novella, where fan favorite Ali Reynolds takes on double responsibilities as both sleuth and bride. Ali Reynolds is finally getting married to h...
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The Old Blue Line
Police/Detective/Law Enforcement
Jul-2014
Joanna Brady - 13.5
Butch Dixon has been taken for a ride … Not a jump in the car, see the sights kind of ride. He's been taken for everything he has. He's lost his house, his restaurant business, his savings, his car, his best friend, his faith -- all to his conni...
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Remains of Innocence
Police/Detective/Law Enforcement
Jul-2014
Joanna Brady - 14
NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLING AUTHOR J. A. JANCE'S THRILLING TALE OF SUSPENSE BRINGS TO LIFE ARIZONA'S COCHISE COUNTY AND THE DESERT SOUTHWEST IN ALL ITS BEAUTY, MYSTERY, AND DANGER While cleaning out the house of her deceased mother, who was a hoard...
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Moving Target
Thriller
Feb-2014
Ali Reynolds - 9
In this instant New York Times bestseller and high-stakes thriller Ali Reynolds spans continents to solve a cold case murder and to figure out who wants a young juvenile offender dead. EVEN GHOSTS CAN’T HIDE FOREVER. Lance Tucker, an incarcer...
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Second Watch
Police/Detective/Law Enforcement
Sep-2013
J.P. Beaumont - 21
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 ...
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Ring In the Dead
Police/Detective/Law Enforcement
Jul-2013
J.P. Beaumont - 0.5
J. P. Beaumont may be an old homicide hand now, but back when he was a rookie working with his first partner, Milton Gurkey--a.k.a. Pickles--things took a turn for the worse . . . One day, at the end of Beaumont and Pickles's shift, a stop at the ...
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Deadly Stakes
Thriller
Feb-2013
Ali Reynolds - 8
Former reporter Ali Reynolds finds herself working against the police to add up the clues that connect one frightened teenager, two dead bodies, and $300,000 . . . with the body count rising. Hired to investigate the grisly murder of a gold-diggin...
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Judgment Call
Police/Detective/Law Enforcement
Jul-2012
Joanna Brady - 13
New York Times bestselling author J. A. Jance brings back acclaimed sheriff Joanna Brady in an exciting and twisting mystery set against the beauty and isolation of the Arizona desert Judgment Call When Joanna Brady's daughter, Jenny, stumbles ...
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Left for Dead
Thriller
Feb-2012
Ali Reynolds - 7
Ali Reynolds investigates two shocking cases of victims brutally left for dead in New York Times bestselling J.A. Jance's latest mystery-thriller. When Santa Cruz County deputy sheriff Jose Reyes, Ali's classmate from the Arizona Police Academy, is g...
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Betrayal of Trust
Police/Detective/Law Enforcement
Jul-2011
J.P. Beaumont - 20
Seattle investigator J. P. Beaumont uncovers a dark and deadly conspiracy that reaches deep into the halls of state government, in this latest thriller from New York Times bestselling author J. A. Jance At first glance, the video appears to be sho...
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The J. A. Jance Casebook
General Fiction
Mar-2011
Judith Ann Jance is a New York Times top-10 bestselling author of three mystery series featuring Sheriff Joanna Brady, Seattle homicide detective J. P. Beaumont, and former TV journalist Ali Reynolds, as well as her acclaimed Walker Family thirlle...
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Fatal Error
Thriller
Feb-2011
Ali Reynolds - 6
An Internet lothario is murdered in cold blood. Police immediately focus their investigation on the victims whose broken hearts he left in his virtual wake. Can Ali Reynolds prove a former colleague's innocence before a remorseless killer decides it'...
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Queen of the Night
Thriller
Aug-2010
Every summer, the Queen of the Night flower blooms in the Arizona desert -- a sacred event commemorated throughout the Tohono O'odham Nation. But this year, one couple's celebration is prematurely destroyed by gunfire ... and the sole witness to the ...
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Trial by Fire
Suspense
Dec-2009
Ali Reynolds - 5
In the heat of the Arizona desert, a raging fire pushes temperatures to a deadly degree, and one woman is left to burn. Pulled naked and barely breathing from the fire, the victim has no idea who she is, let alone who would do this to her -- or why. ...
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Fire and Ice
Police/Detective/Law Enforcement
Aug-2009
J.P. Beaumont - 19
Seattle investigator J. P. Beaumont is working a series of murders in which six young women have been wrapped in tarps, doused with gasoline, and set on fire. Their charred remains have been scattered around various dump sites, creating a grisly patt...
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Cruel Intent
Suspense
Dec-2008
Ali Reynolds - 4
A cold-blooded murderer lures former newscaster All Reynolds into a chilling web of online romance -- and doom--in this exciting thriller from the New York Times bestselling author of Hand of Evil Ex-television journalist All Reynolds just wants a b...
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Damage Control
Police/Detective/Law Enforcement
Aug-2008
Joanna Brady - 12
At first glance, it appears to be an accident ... A car carrying an elderly couple goes off the side of a mountain and tumbles into oblivion on a beautiful sunny day in the Coronado National Monument. A note pulled from the twisted wreckage sugges...
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Hand of Evil
Suspense
Dec-2007
Ali Reynolds - 3
The New York Times bestselling author of Web of Evil realizes every parent's worst nightmare in the latest heart-stopping thriller featuring All Reynolds, an ex-television journalist who is stalked by danger. With his hand trapped in the door of a...
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Justice Denied
Police/Detective/Law Enforcement
Aug-2007
J.P. Beaumont - 18
The murder of an ex-drug dealer ex-con--gunned down on his mother's doorstep--seems just another turf war fatality. Why then has Seattle homicide investigator J.P. Beaumont been instructed to keep this assignment hush-hush? Meanwhile, Beau's lover an...
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Web of Evil
Suspense
Jan-2007
Ali Reynolds - 2
The New York Times bestselling author of Edge of Evil is back with another masterful thriller featuring Ali Reynolds, an ex-television journalist who finds herself in a twisted web of mystery and murder. Fired from her dream job as a Los Angeles n...
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Dead Wrong
Police/Detective/Law Enforcement
Aug-2006
Joanna Brady - 11
Juggling a family and a career has never been easy for Cochise County Sheriff Joanna Brady. Now the impending birth of her second child only adds to her burden, especially when two brutal crimes fall under her jurisdiction. A corpse is discovered ...
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The Case of the London Cabbie
in Bark M For MurderMystery
Mar-2006
Who let the dogs out? Evildoers beware! Four of mystery fiction's top storytellers are setting the hounds on your trail -- in an incomparable quartet of crime stories with a canine edge. Man's (and woman's) best friends take the lead in this pheno...
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Highest, Best Use
in Creature CoziesMystery
Feb-2006
They're cute... they're cuddly... they're on the case. We all know that the most innocent-looking pets can commit a lot of unexpected mischief. But they can also have a talent for sniffing out two-legged troublemakers of a more dangerous kind. ...
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Edge of Evil
Suspense
Jan-2006
Ali Reynolds - 1
The end of her high-profile broadcasting career came too soon for TV journalist Alison Reynolds - bounced off the air by executives who wanted a "younger face." With a divorce from her cheating husband of ten years also pending, there is nothing keep...
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Long Time Gone
Police/Detective/Law Enforcement
Aug-2005
J.P. Beaumont - 17
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 t...
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Day of the Dead
Suspense
Jul-2004
Thirty years ago, a local Papago girl was brutally murdered, her butchered body found stuffed into a large cooler left on the side of Highway 86. No one was ever charged for the crime. Few even cared. And no one suspected it was only the beginning...
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Exit Wounds
Police/Detective/Law Enforcement
Aug-2003
Joanna Brady - 10
The intense desert heat has brought a nightmare to a small corner of the Southwest.A body lies lifeless in an airless trailer, surrounded by seventeen others. It is a crime unspeakable in conception and execution -- a horror strangely connected to a ...
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Partner in Crime
Police/Detective/Law Enforcement
Aug-2002
J.P. Beaumont - 16
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, so they...
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Paradise Lost
Police/Detective/Law Enforcement
Aug-2001
Joanna Brady - 9
One late night in the Arizona wilderness, two young girls stumble across something they should not see. Now both will have to pay. The desecrated body of a missing Phoenix heiress lies naked, lifeless, and abandoned in the desolate beauty and lone...
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Birds of Prey
Police/Detective/Law Enforcement
Feb-2001
J.P. Beaumont - 15
The Statfire Breeze steams its way north toward the Gulf of Alaska, buffeted by crisp sea winds blowing down from the Arctic. Those on board are seeking peace, relaxation, adventure, escape. But there is no escape here in this place of unspoiled natu...
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Devil's Claw
Police/Detective/Law Enforcement
Jul-2000
Joanna Brady - 8
A piercing ill wind blows hot out of the silent Arizona desert. A Native American woman is dead - an ex-con once jailed for the murder of her husband - and her teenage daughter has vanished info the long shadows of the night-still canyons. A dedi...
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Kiss of the Bees
Suspense
Jan-2000
Twenty years ago, a darkness rose up out of the blistering heat of the Arizona desert and descended upon the Walker family of Tucson. A personified evil, a serial killer named Andrew Carlisle, brought blood and terror into their world, nearly murderi...
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Outlaw Mountain
Police/Detective/Law Enforcement
Jul-1999
Joanna Brady - 7
Alice Rogers, an elderly widow, is dead, found murdered in the Arizona desert. It's easy enough to pin the killing on the teens caught driving her car across the Mexican border, but Sheriff Brady isn't about to let it go at that. Alice was something ...
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Breach of Duty
Police/Detective/Law Enforcement
Feb-1999
J.P. Beaumont - 14
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 h...
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Rattlesnake Crossing
Police/Detective/Law Enforcement
Aug-1998
Joanna Brady - 6
Sheriff Joanna Brady is the law in Cochise County, and she will never allow her personal trials to interfere with the job she was elected to do - especially now that death has invaded Bisbee, Arizona, and has shattered the small desert town's fragile...
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Skeleton Canyon
Police/Detective/Law Enforcement
Jul-1997
Joanna Brady - 5
Brianna "Bree" O'Brien neverretumed from Skeleton Canyon. Someone brutally murdered the pretty, popular teenager who hadsfolen away undercover of darkness to rendezwus with herboyfriend, Ignacio Ybarra. Perhaps youthful rage, jealousy and savage pass...
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Dead to Rights
Police/Detective/Law Enforcement
Sep-1996
Joanna Brady - 4
A woman is cruelly cut down in a remote corner of Arizona, killed on her nineteenth wedding anniversary by a drunk motorist.? A year later, the driver himself dies badly, and all suspicions point to the slain woman's still-grieving husband as his mur...
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Name Withheld
Police/Detective/Law Enforcement
Jan-1996
J.P. Beaumont - 13
Nobody is grieving over the death of Donald Wolf, a biotechnology corporation executive whose numerous criminal activities included illegally trading industrial secrets...and rape. Too many people, in fact, are almost too eager to take responsibility...
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Shoot/Don't Shoot
Police/Detective/Law Enforcement
Jun-1995
Joanna Brady - 3
A prisoner languishes in a Phoenix jail cell, accused of brutally slaying his estranged wife. No one believes the man is innocent, except the new female sheriff of Cochise County, in town for a crash course in police training. Joanna Brady is out of ...
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Lying in Wait
Police/Detective/Law Enforcement
Jun-1994
J.P. Beaumont - 12
An electrifying story of vengeance and the sins of a nightmarish past featuring Seattle detective J.P. Beaumont from the New York Times bestselling author of Betrayal of TrustThe sky above Puget Sound blazes orange, as a burning fishing boat fills th...
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Tombstone Courage
Police/Detective/Law Enforcement
Jun-1994
Joanna Brady - 2
When drug dealers murdered her lawman husband, Joanna Brady vowed she would carry on his good work no matter what the cost. With grit, courage, and dogged determination, she challenged the status quo -- and won. Now, as newly elected Sheriff of Coch...
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Death of a Snowbird
Mystery
1994
Originally appeared in : The Mysterious West, 1994. Re-printed in A Moment On the Edge: 100 Years of Crime Stories By Women, 2004. Collected in The J.A. Jance Casebook, 2005, available electronically....
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Failure to Appear
Police/Detective/Law Enforcement
Oct-1993
J.P. Beaumont - 11
J.P. Beaumont's teenaged daughter Kelly has run off--and her tracks have led the sober-but-struggling sleuth to the Oregon Shakespeare Festival. But in addition to one very headstrong offspring, there is something else waiting for Beau backstage: a c...
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Desert Heat
Police/Detective/Law Enforcement
Feb-1993
Joanna Brady - 1
A DEPUTY SHERIFF LIES DYING BENEATH THE BLISTERING ARIZONA SUN -- BECAUSE HE AIMED TOO HIGH... AND KNEW TOO MUCH. Andy Brady was an honest lawman, a good husband and candidate for Sheriff of Cochise County -- until a bullet abruptly destroyed his fu...
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Without Due Process
Police/Detective/Law Enforcement
Dec-1992
J.P. Beaumont - 10
A maniac broke into the home of Officer Benjamin Harrison Weston--then brutally snuffed the model cop, his wife and his children. But five-year-old "Junior" Weston was hiding in a closet...and somehow avoided the psycho's bloody blade. Everyone lo...
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Hour of the Hunter
Suspense
Nov-1991
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...
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Payment in Kind
Police/Detective/Law Enforcement
Mar-1991
J.P. Beaumont - 9
AN EDUCATION IN DEATH The bloody corpses stashed in the broom closet of the Seattle School District building were lovingly entwined. It looked like a classic crime of passion to Detective J.P Beaumont--especially when Pete Kelsey admitted that his...
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Minor in Possession
Police/Detective/Law Enforcement
Apr-1990
J.P. Beaumont - 8
A STIFF SHOT OF MURDER The Arizona alcohol rehab ranch was no picnic for J. P Beaumont. First they stuck him in a room with a sleazy, teenage drug dealer named Joey Rothman. Then they sicked the local law on him when the punk was discovered shot d...
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Dismissed With Prejudice
Police/Detective/Law Enforcement
Jun-1989
J.P. Beaumont - 7
THE MARK OF A CARELESS KILLER Tadeo Kurobashi loved poetry, studied Samurai history, and operated his own software company. When they found him dead on the floor with a Samurai sword by his hand, it looked like hara-kiri. Except for one thing. An ...
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A More Perfect Union
Police/Detective/Law Enforcement
Nov-1988
J.P. Beaumont - 6
A LESS THAN PERFECT CRIME The front-page photo was a gruesome heartstopper--a young woman plunging from a skeletal skyscraper, sheer horror frozen on her beautiful face. An accident? Suicide? Detective J.P. Beaumont didn't think so. Especially whe...
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Improbable Cause
Police/Detective/Law Enforcement
Feb-1988
J.P. Beaumont - 5
A NEW TWIST TO JUSTICE The dentist was sitting bolt upright. Mouth opened wide. Stone-cold dead. There was no lack of suspects--the brutalized wife, the pretty, sexually abused dental assistant, an ex-con who was a very intimate friend of the wido...
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Taking the Fifth
Police/Detective/Law Enforcement
Jun-1987
J.P. Beaumont - 4
"WE HAVE A BINGO" At first, the cops had little to go on -- a paycheck stub from Starlight Productions, a matchbook from the Edgewater Inn. Oh, and a body. Definitely male and decidedly dead, covered with strange little puncture wounds. Then they sh...
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Trial by Fury
Police/Detective/Law Enforcement
Dec-1986
J.P. Beaumont - 3
THE EVIL THAT MEN DO The body lay- amid the garbage behind a Seattle grocery store--a tall. well-built male--dead. Detective J.P Beaumont's twenty years on the force had given him a sixth sense about people--especially guilty ones. So when he foun...
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Injustice for All
Police/Detective/Law Enforcement
May-1986
J.P. Beaumont - 2
VENGEANCE IS MINE The blonde on the beach was screaming. A dead man lay at her feet. It didn't take Detective J.P. Beaumont long to find out that the man had been murdered, and that both the lady and the corpse were members of the State Parole Board...
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Until Proven Guilty
Police/Detective/Law Enforcement
Jul-1985
J.P. Beaumont - 1
SUFFER THE LITTLE CHILDREN The little girl was found murdered, her pink nightgown twisted around her throat. She was only five. The woman who came to the funeral to throw a single rose on the coffin was very much alive ...and beautiful. The kind of ...
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