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"Mateo Vega, a one-time employee of Ali Reynold's husband, B. Simpson, has spent the last sixteen years of his life behind bars. According to the courts, he murdered his girlfriend. But Mateo knows that her real killer is still on the loose, and the first thing he's going to do when he gets a taste of freedom is track him down. After being granted parole, a wary Mateo approaches Stu Ramey of High Noon Enterprises for a reference letter for a job application,...
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"Years ago, when he was a homicide detective with the Seattle PD, J. P. Beaumont's partner, Sue Danielson, was murdered. Volatile and angry, Danielson's ex-husband came after her in her home and, with nowhere else to turn, Jared, Sue's teenage son, frantically called Beau for help. As Beau rushed to the scene, he urged Jared to grab his younger brother and flee the house. In the end, Beaumont's plea and Jared's quick action saved the two boys from...
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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...
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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. But then his past comes calling. 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...
6) Second watch
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J. P. Beaumont mysteries volume 21
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When a series of dreams take him back to his days in Vietnam, reminding him of people and events he hasn't thought about in years, J.P. Beaumont, recovering from knee replacement surgery, is plunged into one of the most mindblowing mysteries he has ever faced.
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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, Mel Shames is leaving the...
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2009
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Big-city homicide detective J. P. Beaumont and small-town sheriff/mom Joanna Brady join forces once again to solve a case involving a series of murders--six young women wrapped in tarps, doused with gasoline, and set on fire; and one elderly caretaker run over and left to die.
11) Partner in crime
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2002
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Rochelle Baxter was a promising artist, and now she's dead. But the worst part is that she was supposed to be under government protection. Arizona county Sheriff Joanna Brady resents having to work with a member of the state Special Homicide Investigation team, but when they uncover a deadly conspiracy of silence, trusting each other is all they have to stay alive.
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Witness Impulse, an imprint of HarperCollinsPublishers
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[2015]
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86 pages ; 18 cm
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"Life has shifted for J.P. Beaumont. After a tragic accident that devastated--and ultimately disbanded--his Special Homicide Investigation Team, he accepts that he has left homicide detection behind at this point, but he has a lot of unanticipated free time on his hands. He's keeping busy with renovations on the new house that he and his wife, Mel Soames, the newly appointed chief of police in Bellingham, Washington, have bought. But new fixtures...
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2003
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1st hardcover ed.
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374 pages ; 23 cm
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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 would call "hara-kiri") but despite the bloody sword he clutches in his lifeless hand, J. P. Beaumont senses the dead software magnate played a less active role in his own demise. Glaring errors have been made in the time-honored Asian death...
19) Taking the fifth
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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...
20) Sentenced to die
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2005
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1st ed.
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645 pages ; 24 cm
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English