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Justice Denied (J. P. Beaumont Mysteries) | 
| Author: J. A. Jance
Publisher: Harper
Category: Book
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Avg. Customer Rating:  27 reviews
Sales Rank: 13136
Media: Mass Market Paperback
Edition: Reprint
Number Of Items: 1
Pages: 448
Shipping Weight (lbs): 0.7
Dimensions (in): 7.5 x 4.2 x 1.3
ISBN: 0060540931
Dewey Decimal Number: 813.54
EAN: 9780060540937
ASIN: 0060540931
Publication Date: July 1, 2008
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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. A metropolis the size of Seattle holds its fair share of brutal crime, corruption, and dirty little secrets. But when the separate trails they're following begin to shockingly intertwine, Beau and Mel realize that they have stumbled onto something bigger and more frightening than they anticipated—a deadly conspiracy that's leading them to lofty places they should not enter . . . and may not be allowed to leave alive.
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 J. P. Beaumont is back and better than ever August 18, 2008
J. P. Beaumont has been given a top-secret special assignment by his boss to look into the murder of an ex-con released when DNA evidence proved him innocent. Mel, J.P.'s live-in girlfriend and partner, has been given an assignment to investigate released sex offenders who have died under suspicious circumstances. Life at home gets very tense when J. P. has to keep his investigation from Mel.
Soon their cases collide and there are lots of strains put on their relationship as well. Can they untangle the web of these deaths and put things right at home as well?
There was a point I didn't like this series as much as I used to. That has long since passed. This series just keeps getting better and better. I can't wait for the next book. Unfortunately since she writes three series, it'll be a bit of a wait. Luckily I like the other two series as well.
J. P. Beaumont has really grown over the years. I'm glad. I didn't like it when he was an alcoholic. He has gotten his life together and his family as well. I really like Mel and hope that she will be around for quite a while. I can't wait to see where this series goes next!
I highly recommend this book and series as well as her other two series, too.
 First and Last July 5, 2008
This is the first J. A. Jance novel I have read, and it will certainly be the last. I found it sophomoric, banal, and positively boring. The characters were shallow, with a very poor attempt to bestow them with wit and humor. Please, enough with the assinine acronyms!
A Road Taken June 24, 2008
The J.P. Beaumont series just rolls on and on, and keeps getting better. Beau and his partner Melissa ("Mel") are working for the State Attorney General's Special Homicide Investigation Team (the acronym is an inside joke) when the AG assigns each to a separate, secret "off the books" assignment without explanation. Beau is asked to look into the murder of a recently released convict exonerated by DNA evidence after several years. Mel is asked to analyze the whereabouts of recently released persons convicted of sexual offenses. Neither is to discuss his/her case with anyone. In addition, Beau is checking on missing person cases never solved as well.
Somehow, however, their cases begin to intertwine and they begin to work as partners professionally as well as in their private lives. Their investigation takes them into what might be a conspiracy involving cops or persons in high places. Meanwhile, Beau has to confront all kinds of personal problems.
This novel is the 18th in the series published in the last 20 years. It is of the customary high caliber, and let's hope they keep coming. [As a matter of fact, Damage Control, the author's newest novel, is due out in hardcover in July.]
Most real life character in the fictional Dectective World. April 10, 2008
I love this character, J.P. Beaumont, "my friends call me Beau". I am glad I started with the very first novel with Beau (Until Proven Guilty). I have followed him through his career as a Seattle Homicide Detective, through a divorce and remarriage, conquering demons while ferreting out the real perpetrators despite sometimes unco-operative fellow officers. He's a very real, down to earth, interesting and always surprising character you grow to respect and really care about. And I love mysteries that I can never guess the ending!
I really loved "Justice Denied" and it is great that you can start anywhere in this series because the author generously fills you in little by little of histories of the characters; but I'm glad I started with #1 and progressed through. She introduced "Joanna Brady" the Sheriff from Bisbee in "Partner in Crime". I wasn't sure I would like the Brady series, but after meeting the character in conjunction with Beau, I find I DO like her and plan to begin reading that series as well. J.A. Jance keeps it moving, it's hard to find a place to set the book down for the night!
Not a River in Egypt February 21, 2008
Justice Denied is a well-written series mystery. The title gives nothing away; it is a vague reference to the principal characters' investigations of murders involving previously incarcerated sex offenders. The hero, J. P. Beaumont, is an investigator for the Washington State Attorney General. He is having a cozy romance with co-worker Melissa Soames, and the various aspects of their partnership is the background for the detective story. Readers are familiar with the characters, and there are frequent references to the background facts about them. As is often the case with series mysteries, the forward movement of the plot is almost secondary to the evolving story of the relationship.
There are two mysteries being solved. One involves the aforementioned predators and their systematic extermination. The other involves resolution of a cold missing persons case. There is no inherent reason to have both stories unfold at the same time, other than that life is complicated. There is some small confusion as focus shifts from one case to another, but one assumes the author had her reasons. They just aren't obvious to readers.
Some degree of self parody is evidenced by the recurring acronym for the investigative unit for which Beau serves and protects -- the Special Homicide Investigations Team -- and the reappearance of that unit's commanding officer, the eponymous Harry I. Ball. These are stories having fun with themselves. As is true of the author's other books, slices of real life are well-presented and leaven the drama of the crimes recounted.
This is fun and easy reading that provides satisfying enjoyment.
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