Author: J.A. Jance
Publisher: Avo
Keywords: cause, improbable
Number of Pages: 352
Published: 1988-02-01
List price: $7.99
ISBN-10: 0380754126
ISBN-13: 9780380754120

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 of the murderous puzzle will shake him to his very core -- because what will be revealed to him is nothing less than the true meaning of unrepen

Author: J.A. Jance
Publisher: Avon
Keywords: prejudice, dismissed
Number of Pages: 384
Published: 1989-06-01
List price: $7.99
ISBN-10: 0380755475
ISBN-13: 9780380755479

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 been made in the-honored Asian death ritual -- which has Beau looking for someone with a less traditional passion . . . for cold-blooded homicide.

Author: J.A. Jance
Publisher: Pocket Star
Keywords: reynolds, ali, evil, hand
Number of Pages: 416
Published: 2008-11-18
List price: $7.99
ISBN-10: 1416537740
ISBN-13: 9781416537748

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 crisscrossing the Southwest on a spree of grisly murders.A hundred miles away, Ali Reynolds is grieving. The newscasting job she once delighted in is gone and so is the philandering husband she loved and thought she knew. Wh

Author: J.A. Jance
Publisher: Avon
Keywords: mystery, beaumont, withheld, name
Number of Pages: 400
Published: 1997-03-01
List price: $7.99
ISBN-10: 0380718421
ISBN-13: 9780380718429

Nobody is grieving over the death of Donald Wolf, a biotechnology corporation executive whose numerous criminal activities includedillegally trading industrial secrets ... and rape. Too many people, in fact, are almost too eager to take responsibility for his murder.At the start of a brand new year, Seattle Homicide DetectiveJ.P. Beaumont has his own life-shattering problems to worryabout-from the imminent death of an ex-wife to trumped-upcharges of child abuse. But the justly-slain body floatingin Elliott Bay is pulling Beau back to the job-leading him into a deadly morass of jealousies, per

Author: J. A. Jance
Publisher: Avon
Keywords: mysteries, book, brady, joanna, wounds, exit
Number of Pages: 416
Published: 2004-08-01
List price: $7.99
ISBN-10: 0380804719
ISBN-13: 9780380804719

Top ten New York Times bestselling author J.A. Jance returns with a powerful tale that explores the darkest corners of human nature. 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 harmless loner with a soft spot for strays is only one of the questions nagging at the local police; another is why the killer used an eighty-five-year-old bullet, fired from the same weapon that slaughtered two other women who were discovered bound,

Author: J.A. Jance
Publisher: Avon
Keywords: fifth, taking
Number of Pages: 368
Published: 1987-06-01
List price: $7.99
ISBN-10: 0380751399
ISBN-13: 9780380751396

It seemed like a most unlikely instrument of death: a lady’s cobalt blue pump with stiletto heels. But the fact that it was caked with the blood of--and found damningly close to--a very dead man gives Seattle Homicide Detective J.P. Beaumont a solid lead into a case of lethal theatrics and unsavory union doings. He has a pay stub, a matchbook, one corpse--and an unsettling feeling of more to come. And he has a murder weapon. All Beau has to do now is find the woman who fills it.

Author: J. A. Jance
Publisher: Harper
Keywords: mysteries, beaumont, injustice
Number of Pages: 368
Published: 2010-01-01
List price: $9.99
ISBN-10: 0061958522
ISBN-13: 9780061958526

It was a scene right out of a Hollywood "slasher" movie—a beautiful woman’s terrified screams piercing the air, a dead body sprawled at her feet, blood staining the pristine sands of a Washington beach. But the blood is real, and the victim won’t be rising when a director yells, "Cut!" In one horrific instant, a homicide detective’s well-earned holiday has become a waking nightmare. Suddenly a lethal brew of passion, madness, and politics threatens to do more than poison J.P. Beaumont’s sleep—it’s dragging the dedicated Seattle cop into the path of a killer wh