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Type of bind: Mass Market Paperback
Dewey Decimal Number: 813.54
EAN num: 9780380718429
ISBN number: 0380718421
Label: Avon
Manufacturer: Avon
Quantity: 1
Page Count: 400
Printing Date: March 01, 1997
Publishing house: Avon
Release Date: March 01, 1997
Sale Popularity Level: 111404
Studio: Avon
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An explosive novel of betrayal and blood vengeance from the New York Times bestselling author of Long Time Gone.
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.
Amazon.com Review:
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. Previous Beaumont books in paperback include: Dismissed With Prejudice, Failure to Appear, Improbable Cause, Lying in Wait, Minor in Possession, Until Proven Guilty, Without Due Process.
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Three murders, work problems, baby sitting, child services, ex-wife dying, and alcohol contribute too many threads for a fast paced mystery. But J.A. Jance manages to pull all the threads together to give NAME WITHHELD and J.P. Beaumont a fighting chance.
J.P. steps out of his hard-boiled persona to figure as a softer person who has some fine moments with his ex-wife's new husband. Very real portrayal of a situation faced by individuals who have multiple marriages and children involved.
Good read in a strong series.
Nash Black, HAINTS and WRITING AS A SMALL BUSINESS
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I purchased this book for my husband because he is hooked on Author J.A. Jance and he loved this one! It arrived in great non-smoking condition. In his 56 years he had never completed an entire Fiction novel until he read the very first A.J. Jance novel! It took almost 30 years to convince him that reading is more relaxing than Non-fiction books or television and it enhances spelling and vocabulary skills. Once he decided to FINALLY read a FICTION book he can't stop. I believe I'm responsible for enabling an addiction to reading that I'd highly recommend to everyone! My husband has now completed at least seven of J.A. Vances' books, Stephen King's 'The Cell', and Joe Hill's 'Heart Shaped Box' amongst others. I am an avid reader and a HUGE fan, reader, audio-book and Hardcover collector of Stephen King and more recently of his son Joe Hill. I couldn't begin to count the number of fiction books I've read in my lifetime. I mention this because on a recent trip to Alaska I would skip TV to read a SK book every evening after a long day of sightseeing. My husband asked "Are you going to read that book the entire vacation?" and I would respond "No, only until I finish it!" I think I can predict that each evening on future vacations will end with both of us reading until we fall asleep! Thank you Amazon and keep up the great work providing excellent books and other products with great service and good prices.
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The very first Beaumont mystery I've read & I enjoyed it. The author develops her characters & story line very directly. Ms. Jance doesn't throw a lot of useless fluff into her work. Her descriptions are not repetitious & the novel moves along at a good fast pace. It's well worth reading. Beaumont is a like-able lead character
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While I'm a big Joanna Brady fan, I haven't quite been able to feel the same way about her other favorite protagonist, JP Beaumont. Beau, though a likeable guy, just doesn't ring true as a man, like he doesn't quite fit in his skin. His reactions to things seem too passive to be male, or maybe it's the way he sees women. JP Beaumont has a lot of fans, though, so obviously not everyone agrees with me on that.
Beau, an independently wealthy, high-rise-dwelling, Porsche-driving Seattle homicide cop, draws a floater one day when he's babysitting for a friend. The corpse is quickly identified as biotech executive Don Wolf, a man whose demise no one seems to lament. When Beau visits Designer Genes International, Wolf's employer, to get a positive ID, the company's CEO surprises him by announcing he will be the prime suspect, as he and Wolf were bitter enemies. It seems, however, that at least one other suspect exists, lovely young Latty Gibson, who was caught on tape being raped by Don Wolf in his office. Beau gets stonewalled in his attempts to talk to the young woman by her great aunt, an old money paragon who rather unconvincingly confesses to the murder.
The investigation gets even more interesting when Don Wolf's wife Lizbeth and a private investigator who had been digging into his past both turn up dead. Beau pursues the Latty Gibson angle while his personal nemesis looks into the biotech company that employed Wolf. Meanwhile, a couple of California cops do a little digging of their own, adding a few more facets and suspects to the mystery.
Typical of Jance, a mishmash of clues are floating around out there, and they all start coming together when suddenly, in a flash, that one vital clue comes to light. The meandering, distracted pace suddenly gets focused and goes into overdrive into the climax. The ending is a trifle too sentimental for my taste, but some people might find it moving.
In all, this was a pretty decent mystery, though it took a little while to engage my interest, as the story seems more about Beau's personal issues than a murder investigation. That's another one of Jance's trademarks, though. I'm sure this book won't disappoint JP Beaumont fans, and it wouldn't be a bad vehicle for drawing in a few new ones, either.
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This book is a small cut above the average mystery/thriller, but its characters express more human emotion than normal, without waxing dramatic. Like a 1980s Hollywood movie, the plot progresses by sandwiching the character between the dumbly destructive legal process and the intelligently destructive evil of a killer covering his tracks, but in the middle, J.P. Beaumont is trying to enjoy life by doing what he finds fulfilling, namely, tracking down killers. The plot isn't far from believable, and the text, while plain, is artfully restrained, but it is the human element that makes this book stand above its otherwise competitive contemporaries.
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