J.P. Beaumont Series by J.A. Jance, Debra Monk, Cotter Smith, Tim Jerome, Alan Sklar, Gene Engene

4.05 · 503 ratings
  • Until Proven Guilty (J.P. Beaumont #1)
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    Until Proven Guilty (J.P. Beaumont #1)

    J.A. Jance

    Rated: 3.96 of 5 stars
    · 24 ratings · published 1985

    The little girl was only five, much too young to die -- a lost treasure who should have been cherished, not murdered.She could have been J.P. Beaumont's kid, and the determined Seattle homicide detective won't rest until her killer pays dearly. But the hunt is leading Beaumont into a murky world of religious fanaticism, and toward a beautiful, perilous obsession all his own. And suddenly Beau himself is a target -- because faith can be dangerous...and love can kill.

  • Injustice for All (J.P. Beaumont #2)
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    Injustice for All (J.P. Beaumont #2)

    J.A. Jance

    Rated: 3.94 of 5 stars
    · 18 ratings · published 1986

    It was like a scene from a movie: the beautiful blond screaming on a Washington beach, a dead man lying at her feet; the dashing Homicide detective arriving to offer kindness and solace to the distressed lady. What it wasn′t was a restful vacation for J.P. Beaumont. And now a murderous mix of politics and passion is turning Beau′s holiday into a nightmare - and leading the dedicated Seattle cop into the path of a killer whose bloodlust is rapidly becoming an obsession.

  • Trial By Fury (J.P. Beaumont #3)
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    Trial By Fury (J.P. Beaumont #3)

    J.A. Jance

    Rated: 4.06 of 5 stars
    · 18 ratings · published 1986

    Beaumont guesses his latest case isn't going to be pleasant when he is called to the crime scene to inspect a naked body found dead in a dumpster. But that turns out to be only the beginning of the story . . .

  • Taking The Fifth (J.P. Beaumont #4)
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    Taking The Fifth (J.P. Beaumont #4)

    J.A. Jance

    Rated: 3.94 of 5 stars
    · 18 ratings · published 1987

    There are many bizarre and terrible ways to die. Seattle Homicide Detective J. P. Beaumont thought he had seen them all—until he saw this body, its wounds, and the murder weapon: an elegant woman’s shoe, its stiletto heel gruesomely caked with blood. The evidence is shocking and unsettling, even for a man who prowls the shadows for a living, for it suggests that savagery is not the exclusive domain of the predatory male... more

  • Improbable Cause (J.P. Beaumont #5)
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    Improbable Cause (J.P. Beaumont #5)

    J.A. Jance

    Rated: 4.00 of 5 stars
    · 18 ratings · published 1988

    Perhaps it was fitting justice: a dentist who enjoyed inflicting pain was murdered in his own chair. The question is not who wanted Dr. Frederick Nielsen dead, but rather who of the many finally reached the breaking point. The sordid details of this case, with its shocking revelations of violence, cruelty, and horrific sexual abuse, would be tough for any investigator to stomach. But for Seattle Homicide Detective J.P... more

  • A More Perfect Union (J.P. Beaumont #6)
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    A More Perfect Union (J.P. Beaumont #6)

    J.A. Jance

    Rated: 3.94 of 5 stars
    · 18 ratings · published 1988

    A shocking photo screamed from the front pages of the tabloids--the last moments of a life captured for all the world to see. The look of sheer terror eternally frozen on the face of the doomed woman indicated that her fatal fall from an upper story of an unfinished Seattle skyscraper was no desperate suicide--and that look will forever haunt Homicide Detective J.P. Beaumont... more

  • Dismissed with Prejudice (J.P. Beaumont #7)
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    Dismissed with Prejudice (J.P. Beaumont #7)

    J.A. Jance

    Rated: 4.06 of 5 stars
    · 18 ratings · published 1989

    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 call hara-kiri. But despite the bloody samurai sword Kurobashi clutches tightly in his lifeless hand, Seattle detective J.P. Beaumont senses the dead software magnate played a less active role in his own demise... more

  • Minor in Possession (J.P. Beaumont #8)
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    Minor in Possession (J.P. Beaumont #8)

    J.A. Jance

    Rated: 4.11 of 5 stars
    · 18 ratings · published 1990

    A gripping story of buried truths, deceit, and sudden, brutal death from the New York Times bestselling author of "Long Time Gone." 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... more

  • Payment in Kind (J.P. Beaumont #9)
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    Payment in Kind (J.P. Beaumont #9)

    J.A. Jance

    Rated: 4.11 of 5 stars
    · 18 ratings · published 1991

    It looks like a classic crime of passion to Detective J.P Beaumont: two corpses found lovingly entwined in a broom closet of the Seattle School District building. The prime suspect, Pete Kelsey, admits his slain spouse was no novice at adultery, yet he swears he had nothing to do with the brutal deaths of the errant school official and her clergyman-turned-security guard companion... more

  • Without Due Process (J.P. Beaumont #10)
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    Without Due Process (J.P. Beaumont #10)

    J.A. Jance

    Rated: 4.17 of 5 stars
    · 18 ratings · published 1992

    What kind of monster would break into a man's home at night, then slaughter him and his family? The fact that the dead man was a model cop who was loved and respected by all only intensifies the horror. But the killer missed someone: a five-year-old boy who was hiding in the closet. Now word is being leaked out that the victim was "dirty." But Seattle P.D. Homicide Detective J.P. Beaumont isn't about to let anyone drag a murdered friend's reputation through the muck... more

  • Failure to Appear (J.P. Beaumont #11)
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    Failure to Appear (J.P. Beaumont #11)

    J.A. Jance, Gene Engene

    Rated: 4.11 of 5 stars
    · 18 ratings · published 1993

    A desperate father's search for his runaway daughter has led him to the last place he ever expected to find her: backstage at the Oregon Shakespeare Festival. But the murders in this dazzling world of make-believe are no longer mere stagecraft, and the blood is all too real. The hunt for his child has plunged former Seattle Homicide Detective J.P. Beaumont into a bone-chilling drama of revenge, greed, and butchery, where innocents are made to suffer in perverse and terrible ways... more

  • Lying in Wait (J.P. Beaumont #12)
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    Lying in Wait (J.P. Beaumont #12)

    J.A. Jance

    Rated: 4.06 of 5 stars
    · 16 ratings · published 1994

    The sky above Puget Sound blazes orange, as a burning fishing boat fills the air with acrid smoke . . . and the sickening odor of charred flesh. The terrible death of a Seattle fisherman has raised more questions than answers, opening a Pandora’s Box of evil that was kept tightly closed for more than half a century. Now a dark cloud is descending over the dead man’s frightened widow, and she must turn for help to an old friend, Detective J.P... more

  • Name Withheld (J.P. Beaumont #13)
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    Name Withheld (J.P. Beaumont #13)

    J.A. Jance

    Rated: 4.11 of 5 stars
    · 18 ratings · published 1996

    As Beau wrestles at home with his own dying ex-wife and the vindictive former spouse of his best friend, his office time is spent trying to discover who murdered a very nasty bio-tech executive.

  • Breach of Duty (J.P. Beaumont #14)
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    Breach of Duty (J.P. Beaumont #14)

    J.A. Jance

    Rated: 4.17 of 5 stars
    · 18 ratings · published 1999

    The Seattle that Beau knew as a young policeman is disappearing. The city is awash in the aromas emanating from a glut of coffee bars, the neighborhood outside his condo building has sprouted gallery upon gallery, and even his long cherished diner has evolved into a trendy eatery for local hipsters. But the glam is strictly surface, for the grit under the city's fingernails is caked with blood... more

  • Birds of Prey (J.P. Beaumont #15)
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    Birds of Prey (J.P. Beaumont #15)

    J.A. Jance

    Rated: 4.00 of 5 stars
    · 18 ratings · published 2001

    While accompanying his grandmother and her new husband to Alaska, J.P. Beaumont finds himself investigating the murder of a middle-aged divorcée aboard a cruise ship, a crime in which the only witness is an Alzheimer's patient.

  • Partner in Crime (J.P. Beaumont #16)
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    Partner in Crime (J.P. Beaumont #16)

    J.A. Jance, Debra Monk, Cotter Smith

    Rated: 4.06 of 5 stars
    · 18 ratings · published 2002

    * Duration: 5 hours and 32 minutes *For the first time, critically acclaimed, 'New York Times' best-selling suspense master J.A. Jance brings together her two most beloved creations: Arizona sheriff Joanna Brady and Seattle investigator, J.P. Beaumont.The dead woman was an artist recently arrived from Washington State, cruelly cut down in the early stages of a promising career... more

  • Long Time Gone (J.P. Beaumont #17)
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    Long Time Gone (J.P. Beaumont #17)

    J.A. Jance, Tim Jerome

    Rated: 4.06 of 5 stars
    · 18 ratings · published 2005

    Fifty years ago, when she was five, Sister Mary Katherine witnessed something terrible . . .A former Seattle policeman now working for the Washington State Attorney's Special Homicide Investigation Team, J.P. Beaumont has been hand-picked to lead the investigation into a half-century-old murder. An eyewitness to the crime, a middle-aged nun, has now recalled grisly, forgotten details while undergoing hypnotherapy... more

  • Justice Denied (J.P. Beaumont #18)
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    Justice Denied (J.P. Beaumont #18)

    J.A. Jance

    Rated: 4.00 of 5 stars
    · 18 ratings · published 2007

    The murder of an ex-drug dealer ex-con—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 rate—and not all due to natural causes... more

  • Fire and Ice (J.P. Beaumont #19)
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    Fire and Ice (J.P. Beaumont #19)

    J.A. Jance

    Rated: 4.05 of 5 stars
    · 20 ratings · published 2009

    In the gripping Fire and Ice, Jance showcases both Beaumont and Brady….The prolific Jance…is in fine form.”—Fort Lauderdale Sun-Sentinel New York Times bestseller J.A. Jance reunites two of her most popular series characters—Cochise County Sheriff Joanna Brady and Seattle detective J.P. Beaumont—in Fire and Ice, as the separate investigations into grisly homicides in two different states shockingly intertwine... more

  • Betrayal of Trust (J.P. Beaumont #20)
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    Betrayal of Trust (J.P. Beaumont #20)

    J.A. Jance

    Rated: 4.11 of 5 stars
    · 18 ratings · published 2011

    From "New York Times"-bestselling author Jance comes the 20th mystery featuring J.P. Beaumont, in which the Seattle P.I. uncovers a crime that has a devastating effect on two troubled teens and becomes even more of a firestorm when it reaches into the halls of state government.

  • Ring in the Dead (J.P. Beaumont #20.5)
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    Ring in the Dead (J.P. Beaumont #20.5)

    J.A. Jance

    Rated: 3.94 of 5 stars
    · 16 ratings · published 2013

    J. P. Beaumont may be an old homicide hand now, but back when he was a rookie working with his first partner, Milton Gurkey—a.k.a. Pickles—things took a turn for the worse . . . One day, at the end of Beaumont and Pickles's shift, a stop at the Doghouse restaurant quickly turns deadly. Not feeling well, Pickles steps out into the parking lot for a breath of fresh air and stumbles into a crime in progress... more

  • Second Watch (J.P. Beaumont #21)
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    Second Watch (J.P. Beaumont #21)

    J.A. Jance

    Rated: 4.17 of 5 stars
    · 18 ratings · published 2013

    With Second Watch, New York Times bestselling author J. A. Jance delivers another thought-provoking novel of suspense starring Seattle investigator J. P. Beaumont. Second Watch shows Beaumont taking some time off to get knee replacement surgery, but instead of taking his mind off work, the operation plunges him into one of the most perplexing mysteries he's ever faced... more

  • Stand Down (J.P. Beaumont #21.5)
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    Stand Down (J.P. Beaumont #21.5)

    J.A. Jance

    Rated: 3.88 of 5 stars
    · 16 ratings · published 2015

    An e-original novella from  New York Times  bestselling author J. A. Jance. 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... more

  • Dance of the Bones (J.P. Beaumont #22)
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    Dance of the Bones (J.P. Beaumont #22)

    J.A. Jance

    Rated: 3.67 of 5 stars
    · 18 ratings · published 2015

    J. P. Beaumont and Brandon Walker, two of New York Times bestselling author J. A. Jance’s most acclaimed series characters, join forces for the first time in one of the most suspenseful works of her career.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... more

  • Still Dead (J.P. Beaumont #22.5)
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    Still Dead (J.P. Beaumont #22.5)

    J.A. Jance

    Rated: 3.94 of 5 stars
    · 16 ratings · published 2017

    Since the disbanding of the Special Homicide Investigation Team, J. P. Beaumont’s biggest concern is pondering whether he and his wife Mel should finally get a dog. But one voicemail from his old friend Ralph Ames is about to change that. Through Ralph, Beau has become involved in an organization called The Last Chance, which enlists a number of retired homicide investigators to tackle long-unsolved cold cases... more

  • Proof of Life (J.P. Beaumont #23)
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    Proof of Life (J.P. Beaumont #23)

    J.A. Jance

    Rated: 4.17 of 5 stars
    · 18 ratings · published 2017

    Be careful what you wish for . . . 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 what’s 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... more

  • Sins of the Fathers (J.P. Beaumont #24)
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    Sins of the Fathers (J.P. Beaumont #24)

    J.A. Jance, Alan Sklar

    Rated: 4.23 of 5 stars
    · 19 ratings · published 2019

    Unabridged, 1 audiobook file (12 parts), 13 hours 16 minutes 23 seconds_______________Seattle investigator J. P. Beaumont is drawn into an intriguing, and shockingly personal, case in this superb tale of suspense from New York Times bestselling author J. A. Jance.Former Seattle homicide cop, J. P. Beaumont, is learning to enjoy the new realities of retirementdoing morning crossword puzzles by a roaring fireplace; playing frisbee with his new dog; having quiet lunches with his still working wife... more

  • Nothing to Lose (J.P. Beaumont #25)
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    Nothing to Lose (J.P. Beaumont #25)

    J.A. Jance

    Rated: 4.50 of 5 stars
    · 16 ratings · published 2022

    The newest thrilling Beaumont suspense novel from New York Times bestselling author J. A. Jance, in which Beaumont is approached by a visitor from the past and finds himself drawn into a missing person's case where danger is lurking and family secrets are exposed. Years ago, when he was a homicide detective with the Seattle PD, J. P. Beaumont's partner, Sue Danielson, was murdered... more

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