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J. P. Beaumont volume 4
Publisher
Avon Books
Pub. Date
c1987
Physical Desc
218 p. ; 18 cm.
Language
English
Description
A bloodstained stiletto heel might seem an unlikely instrument of death but when it's found near an equally bloodstained and very dead man it gives Seattle Homicide Detective J.P. Beaumont the lead he needs and an unnerving feeling that there's more to come
Author
Series
J. P. Beaumont mysteries volume 13
Publisher
Avon Books
Pub. Date
1997
Physical Desc
392 p. ; 18 cm.
Language
English
Description
Seattle police detective J.P. Beaumont, on the search for a clever killer must cope with an excess of suspects, a vanished witness, and his own personal demons.
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J. P. Beaumont mysteries volume 12
Publisher
Morrow
Pub. Date
c1994
Physical Desc
303 p. ; 24 cm.
Language
English
Description
Else Didriksen is no longer the beautiful, troubled teenager who disappeared from detective J.P. Beaumont's life thirty years earlier. Now she is a homicide victim's widow-frightened, desperate and trapped in a web of murderous greed that reaches out from a time of unrelenting terror. And the dark, deadly secrets that hold Else prisoner threaten to ensnare Beau and new partner Sue Danielson as well-and to rock their world in ways they never dreamed...
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J. P. Beaumont mysteries volume 6
Publisher
Avon
Pub. Date
c1988
Physical Desc
345 p. ; 18 cm.
Language
English
Description
A shocking photo screamed from the front pages of the tabloids--the last moments of a life captured for all the world to see. The look of sheer terror eternally frozen on the face of the doomed woman indicated that her fatal fall from an upper story of an unfinished Seattle skyscraper was no desperate suicide--and that look will forever haunt Homicide Detective J.P. Beaumont. But his hunt for answers and justice is leading to more death, and to dark...
Author
Series
J. P. Beaumont mysteries volume 5
Publisher
Avon
Pub. Date
c1988
Physical Desc
292 p. ; 20 cm.
Language
English
Description
Perhaps it was fitting justice: a dentist who enjoyed inflicting pain was murdered in his own chair. The question is not who wanted Dr. Frederick Nielsen dead, but rather who of the many finally reached the breaking point. The sordid details of this case, with its shocking revelations of violence, cruelty, and horrific sexual abuse, would be tough for any investigator to stomach. But for Seattle Homicide Detective J.P. Beaumont, the most damning piece...
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Series
J. P. Beaumont volume 7
Publisher
Avon Books
Pub. Date
c1989
Physical Desc
374 p. ; 18 cm.
Language
English
Description
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 magnate played a less active role in his own demise. Because glaring errors have...
Author
Series
J. P. Beaumont volume 9
Publisher
Avon Books
Pub. Date
1991
Physical Desc
330 p. ; 18 cm.
Language
English
Description
It looks like a classic crime of passion to Detective J.P Beaumont: two corpses found lovingly entwined in a broom closet of the Seattle School District building. The prime suspect, Pete Kelsey, admits his slain spouse was no novice at adultery, yet he swears he had nothing to do with the brutal deaths of the errant school official and her clergyman-turned-security guard companion. Beau believes him, but there's something the much sinned-upon widower's...
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Series
J. P. Beaumont volume s. 1-3
Publisher
William Morrow
Pub. Date
2005
Physical Desc
645 p. ; 24 cm.
Language
English
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Description
Until proven guilty: The little girl was only five, much too young to die -- a lost treasure who should have been cherished, not murdered.She could have been J.P. Beaumont's kid, and the determined Seattle homicide detective won't rest until her killer pays dearly. But the hunt is leading Beaumont into a murky world of religious fanaticism, and toward a beautiful, perilous obsession all his own. And suddenly Beau himself is a target -- because faith...
Author
Series
J. P. Beaumont mysteries volume 23
Pub. Date
2017.
Language
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 doesn't 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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Series
J. P. Beaumont mysteries volume 21
Publisher
William Morrow
Pub. Date
c2013
Physical Desc
358 pages : illustrations ; 24 cm.
Language
English
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Series
Language
English
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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 pattern of death across western Washington. At the same time, thousands of miles away in the Arizona desert, Cochise County sheriff Joanna Brady is looking into a homicide in which the elderly caretaker of...
Author
Series
J. P. Beaumont mysteries volume 14
Publisher
Avon Books
Pub. Date
c1999
Physical Desc
343 p. ; 22 cm.
Language
English
Description
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 has evolved into a trendy eatery for local hipsters. But the glam is strictly surface, for the grit under the city's fingernails is caked with blood. Beau and his new partner Sue Danielson, a struggling...
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Series
J. P. Beaumont mysteries volume 18
Language
English
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Description
Beau and his lover Mel (she is also an investigator) are both investigating cases which they discover are linked, and which may be tied to those in high place in the police force.
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J. P. Beaumont mysteries volume 11
Language
English
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J.P. Beaumont's frantic search for his runaway daughter has led him to the last place he ever expected to find her-- backstage at the Oregon Shakespeare Festival. But the murders in this dazzling world of make-believe are all too real, and many more young lives are at stake unless he can unmask the villain.
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Language
English
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Years ago, Amos Warren, a prospector, was gunned down out in the desert and Sheriff Brandon Walker made the arrest in the case. Now, the retired Walker is called in when the alleged killer, John Lassiter, refuses to accept a plea deal that would release him from prison with time served. Lassiter wants Brandon and The Last Chance to find Amos's "real" killer and clear his name. Sixteen hundred miles to the north in Seattle, J.P. Beaumont is at loose...
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Series
J. P. Beaumont volume 8
Publisher
Avon Books
Pub. Date
c1990
Physical Desc
372 p. ; 18 cm.
Language
English
Description
All manner of sinners and sufferers come to the rehab ranch in Arizona when they hit rock bottom. For Seattle detective J.P. Beaumont, there is a deeper level of Hell here: being forced to room with teenage drug dealer Joey Rothman. An all-around punk, Joey deserves neither pity nor tears--until he is murdered by a bullet fired from Beaumont's gun. Someone has set Beau up brilliantly for a long and terrifying fall, dragging the alcoholic ex-cop into...
17) Nothing to lose
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Series
Language
English
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.
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Series
J. P. Beaumont mysteries volume 24
Pub. Date
[2019]
Language
English
Description
"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 a long ago acquaintance, Alan Dale, shows up on Beau's doorstep with a newborn infant in hand and asking for help locating his missing daughter, Beau finds himself faced with an investigation that will turn...
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English
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Cochise County sheriff Joanna Brady reluctantly joins forces with J.P. Beaumont, a member of Washington State's Special Homicide Investigation team, when a promising African-American artist, supposedly under the protection of the government, is murdered shortly after moving to Bisbee, Arizona
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English
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"Ali Reynolds's personal life is in turmoil when two separate men show up on the scene: a serial killer and a former employee of her husband's who has just been released from a sixteen-year prison sentence for murdering his girlfriend. With lives hanging in the balance, Ali must thread the needle between good and evil"--
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