Helpful Score: 2
Beaumont deals with a little white haired old lady that will not listen to him. He is also accused of being a child molester. He must face his own problems while trying to solve the murder. Very good story
Helpful Score: 2
This was a quick read and once I got into it I couldn't put it down. J.P. Beaumont is trying to solve the murder of Donald Wolf, a biotechnology corporation executive whose numerous criminal activities included illegally trading industrial secrets and rape. He was not well-liked and many have motive for murder. Beau has lots of problems in this one also.
Helpful Score: 1
Detective J.P. Beaumont in back in another entertaining story. I enjoyed this book by J.A. Jance, as usual.
Bonnie A. (ladycholla) -
Helpful Score: 1
Love the character of J. P. Beaumont, he gets richer and better all the time.
Helpful Score: 1
This is one of the best in the JP Beaumont series.
Helpful Score: 1
Slow start... good ending.
Very good read
Another J.P. Beaumont mystery. Corpse washes up un the bay. Filled with corprate double deals, and jealousy. A hated biotech executive may have gotten what he deserved.
Good Book fast read
ANDRE' E. J. (Expeditious) -
excellant!! excellant!!
I haven't read all the Beaumont series (want to) but the ones I have read seem to be too long and dragged out, for that reason I can't give it more than a 3 star rating
The writing could be better if Jance would shorten the books and leave out all the unnecessary descriptions, I mean why do you need to describe a dessert? and why do you need to 'think' so many pages of NOTHING?
The story is rather slow and takes forever to get anywhere but yet if you stick with it you can give it fair rating.
The writing could be better if Jance would shorten the books and leave out all the unnecessary descriptions, I mean why do you need to describe a dessert? and why do you need to 'think' so many pages of NOTHING?
The story is rather slow and takes forever to get anywhere but yet if you stick with it you can give it fair rating.
Amazon.com
Long before she started her hot new series about Arizona sheriff Joanna Brady, J. A. Jance was already one of the stalwarts of the police procedural genre because of her books about Seattle homicide detective J. P. Beaumont. Like the Brady novels, the Beaumont books are a perfect balance of the personal and the professional--placing the main characters in human contexts without making them seem cute or trite. The latest Beaumont, just out in paperback, is one of the best in the series: Beau wrestles at home with his own dying ex-wife and the vindictive former spouse of his best friend, while his office time is spent trying to discover who murdered a very nasty biotech executive.
Long before she started her hot new series about Arizona sheriff Joanna Brady, J. A. Jance was already one of the stalwarts of the police procedural genre because of her books about Seattle homicide detective J. P. Beaumont. Like the Brady novels, the Beaumont books are a perfect balance of the personal and the professional--placing the main characters in human contexts without making them seem cute or trite. The latest Beaumont, just out in paperback, is one of the best in the series: Beau wrestles at home with his own dying ex-wife and the vindictive former spouse of his best friend, while his office time is spent trying to discover who murdered a very nasty biotech executive.
There are those who don't deserve to liveâand the corpse floating in Elliott Bay may have been one of those people. Not surprisingly, many individuals, too many in fact, are eager to take responsibility for the brutal slaying of the hated biotech executive whose alleged crimes ranged from the illegal trading of industrial secrets to rape. For Seattle Detective J.P. Beaumontâwho's drowning in his own life-shattering problemsâa case of seemingly justifiable homicide has sinister undertones, drawing the haunted policeman into a corporate nightmare world of double deals, savage jealousies, and real blood spilled far too easily, as it leads him closer to a killer he's not sure he wants to find.
There are those who don't deserve to live, and the corpse floating in Elliot Bay may have been one of those people. Not surprisingly, many individuals-too many, in fact-are eager to take responsibility for the brutal slaying of the hated biotech executive whose alleged crimes ranged from the illegal trading of industrial secrets to rape. For Seattle Detective J P Beaumont, who's drowning in his own life-shattering problems, a case of seemingly justifiable homicide has sinister undertones, drawing the haunted policeman into a corporate nightmare of double deals, savage jealousies, and real blood spilled far too easily, as it leads him close to a killer he's not sure he wants to find.
From the book cover: "There are those who don't deserve to live - and the corpse floating in Elliot Bay may have been one of those people. Not surprisingly, many individuals - too many, in fact - are eager to take responsibility for the brutal slaying of the hated biotech executive whose alleged crimes ranged from the illegal trading of industrial secrets to rape. For Seattle Detective J.P. Beaumont - who's drowning in his own life-shattering problems - a case of seemingly justifiable homicide has sinister undertones, drawing the haunted policeman into a corporate nightmare of double deals, savage jealousies, and real blood spilled far too easily, as it leads him closer to a killer he's not sure he wants to find." A good, light read.
This book has slight lines on the binding from being read; but is in good condition.
great story...easy to read.
