J.P. Beaumont

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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,...

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...

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...

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...

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...

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...