Series: J.P. Beaumont
by Author J.A. Jance
Payment in Kind (2004)
Fun read with some unusual dynamics.Usually I am highly entertained by the Beaumont mysteries, and this case was no exception. The detective has to investigate a crime in a school that initially looks like a murder suicide. Soon enough things become complicated and we get a whodunit with plenty o...
Lying in Wait (1996)
Partner in Crime (2003)
Her stars Beaumont & Brady united in Jance fan club Dream!Think how much fun it would be if Grafton's Kinsey Millhone went to visit Paretsky's V.I. Warshawski and they solved a crime together. Jance has done it with her two leading characters! After 15 Seattle-based (Jance's home) Detective-extra...
Minor in Possession (1990)
Book number Eight in the J.P. Beaumont series by J.A. Jance - 3.5 stars. Beaumont is in an alcohol treatment facility in Wickenburg, AZ attempting to stop drinking for the benefit of his liver. Around the end of the first month of treatment Beaumont's roommate is murdered. Like most of Jance's wo...
Until Proven Guilty (1985)
Because I respect the opinion of two of my librarian friends who love J.A. Jance's J.P Beaumont Series, I decided it was time to give one a try. With 21 in the series I won't lack for reading if this proves a hit. Just as Beaumont says of his new partner, Peters "There's so much to learn before y...
Without Due Process (1993)
Beau and Big Al get called to a familiar address when an officer down call goes out. Turns out it is to an address where a good friend of Big Al lives. Plus, the call came with a warning that families of cops would be shot. They get to a crowded, bloody scene where Ben, his wife and three childre...
Name Withheld (1997)
Breach of Duty (1999)
J.P. Beaumont has always been one of my favorite detectives. J.P. was raised by a single mother who got pregnant at the age of seventeen. J.P’s grandfather, who was immersed in a religion that didn’t tolerate pregnancy before marriage, threw his daughter out of the house and forbade his wife to h...
Injustice for All (1990)
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 pol...
Trial by Fury (1986)
Yeh - this book is the 3rd in the series and the 1st one where Detective J.P. Beaumont doesn't fall in love with a deranged female murderer. Someone else in the book does. If the reader has read future books in the series, this is the book where we find out how Beau's partner, Ron Peters, becom...
Second Watch (2013)
This is the 21st J.P. Beaumont book. Beau (as he is called) had a double knee replacement at the start of the book. After surgery, and on some powerful painkillers, Beau starts to have what he calls "dreams" in which he talks to dead people as if they are there in the hospital with him. The first...
Second Watch LP: A J. P. Beaumont Novel (2013)
J.A. Jance has written a lot of book about J.P Beaumont; this is the 21st. He's grown older, and this time he has knee replacement surgery. An interesting way of handling a complex plot is to have Beau dream about people from his past--including a murder he never solved. This interesting plot twi...
Betrayal of Trust (2011)
JP Beaumont could be considered Seattle's Columbo. Not elegant, not a suave fellow (in the traditional sense), did not start out life with a silver spoon or pickle fork in his mouth. And he definitely is not someone who happily rides the political merry-go-round.All of this provides me an enjoyme...