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Beaumont encounters two high school friends while trying to solve a homicide. Very good story
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Enjoyed very much, interesting twist.
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Another good JP Beaumont mystery!
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One of the first books I've read from this author. I really like the character J.P. Beaumont. This is a pretty fast-pased suspense.
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I really enjoyed this book
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Good read like all of the Beaumont books.
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Another in a series by J.A. Jance featuring Seattle Police Detective J.P. Beaumont. Great descriptions in and around the Seattle and Puget Sound area. A good read.
Love, love, love Beaumont!
Nationally Bestselling Author J.A. Jance winner of the American Mystery Award.
"Gripping...a red hot, fast-paced story- Publishers Weekly"
"Gripping...a red hot, fast-paced story- Publishers Weekly"
A Seattle fisherman has died badly, bound, tortured and set ablaze aboard his boat on the Puget Sound. And with his death comes disturbing questions and the key to a Pandora's Box of evil that has remained tightly closed for over half a century.
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A seattle fisherman has died badly---bound, tortured and set ablaze aboard his boad on the Puget Sound. And with his death comes disturbing questions...and the key to a Pandoras Box of evil that has remained tightly closed for over a half a century.
Else Didriksen is no longer the beautiful, troubled teenager who disappeared from detective J.P. Beaumonts life thirty years earlier. Now she is a homicide victims widow---frightened, desperate and trapped in a web of murderous greed that reaches out from a time of unrelenting terror. And the dark, deadly secrets that hold Else prisoner threaten to ensnare Beau and new partner, Sue Danielson as well---and to rock their world in ways they never dreamed possible.
Else Didriksen is no longer the beautiful, troubled teenager who disappeared from detective J.P. Beaumonts life thirty years earlier. Now she is a homicide victims widow---frightened, desperate and trapped in a web of murderous greed that reaches out from a time of unrelenting terror. And the dark, deadly secrets that hold Else prisoner threaten to ensnare Beau and new partner, Sue Danielson as well---and to rock their world in ways they never dreamed possible.
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. Beaumont, the one man who can free her from a web of murderous greed and oppressive terror. But the secrets that hold Else Didricksen prisoner are about to ensnare Beaumont as well . . . in ways he never dreamed possible.
