J.P Beaumont Series

The little girl was found murdered, her pink nightgown twisted around her throat. She was only five. The woman who came to the funeral to throw a single rose on the coffin was very much alive, and beautiful. The kind of beautiful that homicide detective J. P. Beaumont couldn’t resist. But lurking in the dark corners of this bizarre case was not just a demented mind obsessed with murder, but secrets so deadly, so close to Beaumont’s own life, that even a street tough cop could die guessing at the answers...

At first the cops had little to go on, a paycheck stub from Starlight Productions, a matchbook from the Edgewater Inn.  Oh, and a body. Definitely male and decidedly dead, covered with strange little puncture wounds.  Then they showed Beaumont what they had found in the blackberry bush. A woman’s cobalt blue shoe with a five-inch stiletto heel caked with blood and hair. “We have a bingo,” the cop said. Detective J.P. Beaumont had his corpse. He had his murder weapon. Now all he had to do was fill the shoe with a woman.

The dentist was sitting bolt upright, mouth opened wide. Stone-cold dead. There was no lack of suspects - the brutalized wife, the pretty sexually abused dental assistant, an ex-con who was a very intimate friend of the widow. Homicide detective J.P. Beaumont knew he was closing in on his prey. But when a new piece of evidence surfaced, detective Beaumont discovered the true meaning of evil - and decided that justice would best be served if the killer went free.

The body lay amid the garbage behind a Seattle grocery store—a tall, well-built male—dead.  Detective J.P. Beaumont’s twenty years on the force has given him sixth sense about people—especially guilty ones.  So when he found out the victim—a high school basketball coach with a very pregnant wife—had been lynched, Beaumont suspected this murder was connected with the extremes of love and hatred. Love for the wrong kind of woman...and the hate of those who took justice into their own blood-soaked hands.

Homicide detective J.P. Beaumont met the blonde on the beach. She was screaming. A dead man lay at her feet. It didn't take Beaumont long to find out the man was murdered. Both the lady and the corpse were members of the State Parole Board. The killer could be seeking personal justice for one of the Parole Board's fatal mistakes. The case was turning into a deadly mixture of politics and passion, a nightmare - one where an experienced cop might not be able to stop a killer motivated by blind vengeance...or obsession.

Computers, poetry and Samurai lore were successful businessman Tadeo Kurobashi's passions.  So it stood to reason that the ancient "art" of harakiri would be his suicide method of choice. But Detective Beaumont wasn't certain that the dead software magnate had any choice in the matter - despite the bloody Samurai sword Kurobashi clutched in his lifeless hand. Especially since an error in the time-honored death ritual indicated cold-blooded homicide...of a most traditional sort.

The front-page photo was a gruesome heartstopper - a young woman plunging from a skeletal skyscraper.  Sheer horror frozen on her beautiful face. An accident?  Suicide?  Detective Beaumont didn't think so, especially when the body count started climbing, eventually leading him to the headquarters of the ironworkers' local - and a crew of hardhats with nerves of steel and some deadly secrets.  Beaumont was determined to make the union pay its dues... but the union had other ideas.

All manner of sinners and sufferers come to the rehab ranch in Arizona when they hit rock bottom. For Seattle detective J.P. Beaumont, there is a deeper level of Hell here: being forced to room with teenage drug dealer Joey Rothman. An all-around punk, Joey deserves neither pity nor tears--until he is murdered by a bullet fired from Beaumont's gun. Someone has set Beau up brilliantly for a long and terrifying fall, dragging the alcoholic ex-cop into a conspiracy of blood and lies that could cost him his freedom . . . and his life.

The bloody corpses stashed in the broom closet of the Seattle School District building were lovingly entwined. It looked like a classic crime of passion to Detective J.P. Beaumont - especially when Pete Kelsey admitted that his slaughtered wife was an 'A' student in the fine art of adultery. But Pete swore he had nothing to do with the two brutal deaths. Beaumont's gut instinct told him to believe the sinned-upon widower, but he never dreamed that Pete might be harboring a secret hotter than extra-marital sex...and more lethal than murder...

J.P. Beaumont's teenaged daughter Kelly has run off - and her tracks have led the sober-but-struggling sleuth to the Oregon Shakespeare Festival. But in addition to one very headstrong offspring, there is something else waiting for Beau: a case of cold-blooded murder. The victim is an acquaintance, a sleazy, rival private eye, brutally butchered, supposedly by the Festival's current young Juliet...though Beau has his doubts. But the Second Act is about to open with a second corpse and a touch of kiddie porn - leaving Beau center-stage in a heart stopping tragedy of revenge, deception and death.

Five year-old Junior Weston was hiding in a closet the night his entire family was brutally slaughtered.  He glimpsed the killer's face, and now the little boy's life is on the line. The only one who can help him is detective J.P. Beaumont, but even Beaumont's dogged persistence and reckless courage may not be enough to save the boy and put the killer behind bars. Beaumont's hot temper and cold nose for clues discovers a suicidal computer freak, causes a showdown with several steely-eyed gang members, and finds explosive revelations in the Seattle Police Department.

Who is J.P. Beaumont? A very human Seattle police detective who is hardened but hopeful, dispirited but diligent - the kind of cop who has experienced personal tragedy but still remains faithful to his duty. When J.P. Beaumont and his new partner Sue Danielson are assigned the murder of an elderly woman torched to death in her bed, Beaumont finds himself distracted by Sue's difficulties at home. Distraction soon turns to terror as Beaumont and Sue find themselves caught up in a series of events that will leave them and their carefully constructed investigation shattered. For Beaumont, nothing will ever be the same.

Else Didriksen was a beautiful but troubled teenager when she walked out of young J.P. Beaumont's life. She turns up thirty years later in the most harrowing of circumstances - her husband's mutilated body is found on board the charred remains of their commercial fishing boat. From Seattle's briny fishing enclave to the graceful estates of the white-collared high society, Beau dismisses no suspect as he tracks a killer whose vicious determination is fueled by a haunting, decades-old murder.

Seattle Police homicide detective J.P. Beaumont is called in to investigate a body floating in nearby Elliott Bay. The case draws Seattle's favorite detective into the cutting-edge world of bio-technology, where business as usual means personal betrayals and selling trade secrets with ruthless efficiency. The more Beau uncovers about the unsavory life of the corpse, the more he's convinced that justice has already been served. With his personal life converging into his professional one, detective Beaumont struggles to find a killer he doesn't really want to find...

Former homicide detective J.P. Beaumont may have cut himself loose from the Seattle police force, but that doesn’t mean he’s out of the game. As he accompanies his grandmother and her new husband on their honeymoon cruise to Alaska, murder suddenly makes waves when Beau finds himself the target of a gang of middle-aged divorcees, including a tempestuous lady named Margaret Featherman. When Featherman’s fatal fall from the ship is caught by a security camera, the only witness is a hapless Alzheimer’s patient. Mistaken for an FBI agent, Beau is inadvertently drawn into the investigation and he brings his skill and sardonic humor to bear on a case where clues are few but suspects abound.

When a middle-aged nun unexpectedly recalls the grisly details of an unsolved murder she witnessed as a child, Special Homicide Investigation Team member J. P. Beaumont finds himself wrapped in a case where a band of powerful co-conspirators are willing to go to any length to keep their deadly secrets hidden. Meanwhile, Beau's former partner Ron Peters becomes the prime suspect after his ex-wife is killed. Barred from any official involvement in the case, Beau watches helplessly as his friend's family is slowly torn apart. Faced with personal conflicts and shocking surprises, Beau must struggle to solve one of his most baffling and dangerous cases yet.