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Book Review of Long Time Gone (J. P. Beaumont, Bk 16)

Long Time Gone (J. P. Beaumont, Bk 16)
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After more than twenty years of distinuished service with the Seattle Police Department, Jonas Piedmont Beaumont is nwo working for the Washington State Attorney's Special Homicide Investigation Team or as it's more commonly called , the SHIT squad. But the more things change, the more thay stay the same. An eyewitness to a fifty-year-old murder has just came forward and Beau has been handpicked to lead the investigation. While undergoing hypon-therapy, a middle aged nun unexpectedly recalls the grisly details of a cold blooded killing she witnessed when she was five years old. Though fear has kept these memoried repressed for half a century,they've now risen to the surface to cast a harsh light on a deadly plot that spans two generations. And Beau's caught in the glare, facing a ruthless band of cocoonspirators willing to go to any lengths to keep their secrets hidden. But there's more shaking up Beau's world. His former partner, Ron Peters-caught in a bitter child custody battle-becomes the prime suspect in his ex-wife's vicious murder.