J. A. Jance

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A More Perfect Union

A More Perfect Union

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 Beaumont didn't think so, especially when the body count started climbing,...

Former homicide detective J.P. Beaumont may have cut himself loose from the Seattle police force, but that doesn’t mean he’s out of the game. As he accompanies his grandmother and her new husband on their honeymoon cruise to Alaska, murder suddenly...

Who is J.P. Beaumont? A very human Seattle police detective who is hardened but hopeful, dispirited but diligent - the kind of cop who has experienced personal tragedy but still remains faithful to his duty.When J.P. Beaumont and his new partner Sue...

Day of the Dead

Day of the Dead

Former Sheriff Brandon Walker is living the life of a reluctant retiree, but desperately misses his former career. When he is invited to join The Last Chance Club to review and attempt to solve longcold cases, he little imagines the first case to...

Dismissed With Prejudice

Dismissed With Prejudice

Computers, poetry and Samurai lore were successful businessman Tadeo Kurobashi's passions. So it stood to reason that the ancient "art" of harakiri would be his suicide method of choice. But Detective Beaumont wasn't certain that the dead software...

Successful, high-profile TV journalist Alison Reynolds' career came to an abrupt stop when top executives decided they needed a "younger face." As if that wasn't enough, it seems her husband wants a "younger face" as well. With a dead career and a...

Failure To Appear

Failure To Appear

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: a case of...

Hour of The Hunter

Hour of The Hunter

After only six years in prison, Andrew Carlisle has been released. A brilliant psychopath convicted of the brutal torturemurder of a Papago Indian girl, he is free once more to prowl the Arizona desert to feed his insatiable hunger for blood and...

Improbable Cause

Improbable Cause

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....

Injustice for All

Injustice for All

Homicide detective J.P. Beaumont met the blonde on the beach. She was screaming. A dead man lay at her feet. It didn't take Beaumont long to find out the man was murdered. Both the lady and the corpse were members of the State Parole Board. The killer...

Kiss of the Bees

Kiss of the Bees

In Tucson, twenty years ago, a psychopath named Andrew Carlisle brought blood and terror into the home of Diana Ladd Walker and her family. When Carlisle died in prison, Diana and her husband, ex-county sheriff Brandon Walker, believed their long...

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...

Else Didriksen was a beautiful but troubled teenager when she walked out of young J.P. Beaumont's life. She turns up thirty years later in the most harrowing of circumstances - her husband's mutilated body is found on board the charred remains of...

Minor in Possession

Minor in Possession

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...

Seattle Police homicide detective J.P. 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 bio-technology, where business as usual means personal...

Payment in Kind

Payment in Kind

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 slaughtered wife was an...

Taking the Fifth

Taking the Fifth

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 showed Beaumont what they...

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 has given him sixth sense about people—especially guilty ones. So when he found out the victim—a high school...

Until Proven Guilty

Until Proven Guilty

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 beautiful that homicide...

Without Due Process

Without Due Process

Five year-old Junior Weston was hiding in a closet the night his entire family was brutally slaughtered. He glimpsed the killer's face, and now the little boy's life is on the line. The only one who can help him is detective J.P. Beaumont, but even...