A shadow from Beaumont's past shows up after 30 years, an ex-girlfriend - whose husband has been brutally murdered.
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January 21, 2005 -
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OverDrive Listen audiobook
- File size: 323209 KB
- Duration: 11:13:21
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- English
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The twelfth entry in the J.P. Beaumont series offers readers an incongruous mixture of reunited sweethearts, Nazi hunters, illegal immigrants, the Internet and a series of horrendous murders. Beau also gets a new partner, a single mother who capably juggles the demanding schedule of a homicide detective while she less capably raises her teenage son. Fans will find Beau's detecting skills a bit off the mark as he misses obvious clues. Engene's narration, although clipped and stiff, is acceptable when he is portraying Beaumont. Less successful are his accents for other characters, particularly the high-pitched, whiny vocalization for female characters. Accents are not consistently maintained. Though Jance is popular, this may not be the best in the series. J.L. (c)AudioFile, Portland, Maine -
August 29, 1994
Seattle police detective J.P. Beaumont meets his past in this gripping fourth adventure (after Failure to Appear). Called to the scene of a boat fire, Beau discovers Gunter Gebhardt burned to death and handcuffed to a table, his fingers and toes severed and placed in a pan atop his chest. Berthed nearby is Beau's former schoolmate, Al Torvoldsen, who still carries a torch for Gebhardt's widow, Else, another schoolmate. Before Beau and his new partner, Sue Danielson, can jump to conclusions, however, Gunter's girlfriend is found in her smoldering house, her fingers and toes also chopped off. The only lead Beau and Sue have is the report of a man who fled after being hit by a car near the docks at the time of the boat fire. While trying to locate the injured man, the detectives delve into Else's burned-out marriage, learn about Gunter's devotion to Nazism and meet the Gebharts' alienated daughter, Kari, who links the murder of her father to a German death camp from which a shipment of gold disappeared. Beau and Sue probe Else's high school romance, the missing accident victim and the Nazi connection before they come up with the killer in this red hot, fast-paced story. Author tour. -
January 1, 1996
In the 12th installment of Jance's J.P. Beaumont series, Beaumont investigates the brutal murder of an old high-school friend.
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