Helpful Score: 5
Beau and his significant other, Mel, both work for the Washington State Attorney doing basically cold case files. Beau is then given a current case that he is to keep undercover, Down the road their cases turn out to be the same case. There is never a dull moment as family matters and the case heat up. Sleep is hard to come by as clues are chased fast and furiously. Surprise ending! Can't tell you any more because it may ruin the story for you. I really enjoyed this book. But then JA Jance usually delivers. Four stars
Helpful Score: 3
This was my first read of this series and I liked it very much! It was really exciting and made me want to read more about this character, Detective Beaumont! I highly recommend it!
Helpful Score: 2
Great book, can't wait till next one comes out.
Helpful Score: 2
Good book as usual. Never disappointed in this series. Jance is a very good story teller.
Enjoyed the book, it was fast paced and had interesting characters. There were so many characters, in fact, at times it was difficult to keep track of who was who.
The investigation of LaShawn Tompkins's murder seems straightforward enough. Upon his release from death row, the ex-drug dealer returned to his old neighborhood, where he was gunned down on his mother's doorstep. Just another case of turf warfare.
At least that's what it looks like on the surface to Seattle investigator J. P. Beaumont, who's been handed the assignment under the strictest confidence. But as Beau starts digging, the situation becomes more complicated than he'd thought. It appears that LaShawn really had turned over a new leaf at the King Street Mission and his murder was premeditated. Someone had targeted the man for death.
Meanwhile, Beau's lover and fellow cop, Mel Soames, is given her own hush-hush investigation. A routine check on registered sex offenders has revealed a disturbing pattern: they're dying off at an alarming rate, and not all due to natural causes. Details of the latest death suggest an inside job, and Mel isn't letting this go.
Suddenly, Mel's investigation becomes entangled with Beau's, and the two begin to uncover a nightmarish conspiracy that could involve people in high placesâincluding their own top brass.
At least that's what it looks like on the surface to Seattle investigator J. P. Beaumont, who's been handed the assignment under the strictest confidence. But as Beau starts digging, the situation becomes more complicated than he'd thought. It appears that LaShawn really had turned over a new leaf at the King Street Mission and his murder was premeditated. Someone had targeted the man for death.
Meanwhile, Beau's lover and fellow cop, Mel Soames, is given her own hush-hush investigation. A routine check on registered sex offenders has revealed a disturbing pattern: they're dying off at an alarming rate, and not all due to natural causes. Details of the latest death suggest an inside job, and Mel isn't letting this go.
Suddenly, Mel's investigation becomes entangled with Beau's, and the two begin to uncover a nightmarish conspiracy that could involve people in high placesâincluding their own top brass.
The murder of an ex-drug dealer ex-con who is gunned down on his mother's doorstep seems just another turf war fatality. Why then has Seattle homicide investigator J.P. Beaumont been instructed to keep this assignment hush-hush? Meanwhile, Beau's lover and fellow cop, Mel Soames, is involved in her own confidential investigation. Registered sex offenders from all over Washington State are dying at an alarming rateâand not all due to natural causes. Beau and Mel realize that they have stumbled onto something bigger and more frightening than they anticipated.
