"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 when the body count started climbing, eventually leading him to the headquarters of the ironworkers' lo...
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" On a beautiful sunny day in the Coronado National Monument, an elderly couple's car goes off the side of a mountain and into oblivion. The terrain is so rocky that a helicopter must be flown in to retrieve the bodies, and to make matters worse, a thunder-storm is looming on the horizon. Hours later and miles away, the subsiding rain reveals gruesome evidence: two trash bags conta...
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" On a beautiful sunny day in the Coronado National Monument, an elderly couple's car goes off the side of a mountain and into oblivion. The terrain is so rocky that a helicopter must be flown in to retrieve the bodies, and to make matters worse, a thunder-storm is looming on the horizon. Hours later and miles away, the subsiding rain reveals gruesome evidence: two trash bags containing human remains.
"It's just another day in the life of ...
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"For more than thirty years, the case has remained stone cold - the brutal murder of a local Papago girl, her butchered body found stuffed into a large cooler that was left on the side of Highway 86. No one ever paid for the horrific crime . . . except, that is, the victim's loved ones, who suffer to this day.
"Brandon Walker, once the sheriff of Pima County, Arizona, no longer ...
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Twelfth in the Sheriff Joanna Brady mystery series.
"Juggling a family and 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 in the Arizona desert with the fingers severed from both hands - the body of...
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"Japanese businessman Tadeo Kurobashi had many passions, including computers, poetry, money, and Samurai lore. So his suicide method of choice would naturally be the ancient art of seppuku - what the uninitiated call 'hara-kiri.' But despite the bloody Samurai sword Kurobashi clutches tightly in his lifeless hand, Seattle detective J. P. Beaumont senses the dead software magnatet p...
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"The heat is a killer in Cochise County, Arizona, with temperatures over 100 degrees. In the suffocating stillness of an airless trailer, a woman is lying dead, a bullet hole in her chest. Why someone would murder a harmess loner with a soft spot for stray dogs is only one of the qestions nagging at the local police: another is why the kil...
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"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 case of cold-blooded murder. The victim is an acquaintance - a sleazy rival P.I. brutally butchered, supposedly by the Festival’s current young Juliet. . . though Beau has his doubts. But the Second Act is about to open with a second corpse and a touch of kiddie porn - ...
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Third in the Ali Reynolds series.
"With his hand trapped in the door of a speeding car, a man struggles to remain upright as he's dragged along a deserted stretch of San Juan Road in Phoenix's South Mountain Preserve. It's the perfect place to drive a man to his grave - literally. Starting with a crime so gruesome even prowling coyotes keep their distance from the remains, a killer begins crisscrossin...
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"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 Diana and her young son hide. . . he will find them."; 6¾" - 7¾" Tall
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"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 widow. Homicide detective J. P. Beaumont knew he was closing in on his prey. But when a new piece of evidence surfaced, Beau discovered the true meaning of evil - and decided that ...
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"It was like a scene from a movie: the beautiful blond screaming on a Washington beach, a dead man lying at her feet, the dashing Homicide detective arriving to offer kindness and solace to the distressed lady. What it wasn't was a restful vacation for J. P. Beaumont. And now a murderous mix of politics and passion is turning Beau's holiday into a nightmare - and leading the dedicated Seattle copy into the path of a killer whose bloodlust is rapidly becoming an obsessi...
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"After more than 20 years of distinguished service with the Seattle PD, Jonas Piedmont Beaumont is now working for the Washinton State Attorney's Special Homicide Investigation Team or, as it's more commonly called, the S*** squad. But the more things change, the more they stay the same.
"An eyewitness to a fifty-year-old murder has just come forward, and Beau has been handpicked to lead the inve...
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"Seattle fisherman has died badly - bound, tortured and set ablaze aboard his boat on the Puget Sound. And with his death comes disturbing questions. . . and the key to a Pandora’s Box of evil that has remained tightly closed for over half a century. Else Didriksen is no longer the beautiful, troubled teenager who disappeared from J.P. Beaumont’s life thirty years ea...
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"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 dead with Beaumont’s own .38. But the party responsible for Joey’s early check-out wasn’t satisfied with simply framing Beau for murder. Suddenly the Seattle detective faced a choice of fates far more unpleasant than ...
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"Alice Rogers, an elderly widow, is 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 Joanna Brady isn't about to let it go at that. Alice was something of a free spirit, with a penchant for Scotch, the glitter of Las Vegas, and a romance with a man tweny years...
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"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 lonely terror of the high desert night. A hideous crime is inviting death once more into Sheriff Joanna Brady’s world. But this time the nightmares of her professional and personal lives are intertwining in ways too awfu...
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Omnibus edition featuring the first three J.P. Beaumont mysteries.
"J. A. Jance and her renowned character homicide detective J. P. Beaumont have put Seattle on the mystery map. In his long and checkered career with the Seattle police, Beau has seen it all. His record m...
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"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 found out the victim - a high school basketball coach with a very pregnant wife - had been lynched, Beau suspected this murder was connected with the extremes of love and hatred. Love for the wrong ...
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"Officer Benjamin Harrison Weston was a model cop - until a maniac broke into his home and brutally murdered him, his wife and his children, but somehow missed his five-year-old son who was hiding in a closet. Now the top brass is suggesting that 'Gentle Ben' was dirty. But Homicide Detective J. P. Beaumont isn't about to let anybody drag his dead friend's reputation through the mud. And he's ready to trail a killer from the gang-ruled streets to the upper ranks of the Seattle P.D., if necessary, t...
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