Partner in Crime (J. P. Beaumont Novel Book 16)
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| Rating | : | 4.64 (717 Votes) |
| Asin | : | B000FC13A4 |
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| Number of Pages | : | 264 Pages |
| Publish Date | : | 2015-12-22 |
| Language | : | English |
DESCRIPTION:
"Sheriff Brady meets J.P. Beaumont" according to Joe Da Rold. Sheriff Joanna Brady meets J.P. Beaumont, who has been sent from the State of Washington to observe the investigation of a murder case in Cochise County, Arizona. Beaumont, of course, is Jance’s other series protagonist, but this is his first case as a Special Homicide Investigator for the Attorney General’s office. The link is that the victim was in an eye-witness program from Washington. It also happens that J.P.’s second wife had been a native of Bisbee. J.P.’s bosses had enraged Joanna with their involvement and by withholding vital information, so his meeting w. Not the best for J A Jance I have been an avid reader of J A Jance's books for quite some time, but admit that The Sheriff Brady books are not my favorite series. J P Beaumont is the better character in this joint adventure book, but I'm tired of hashing and rehashing the Anne Corley character. This book came off more as the author trying to take a whole bunch of loose ends that needed to be dealt with once and for all, so hence this book. The drama, the investigative work, the trying to solve the crime had no flow or intensity. Actually I found myself not all that interested in the book at all. It just simply never. Okay Decent plot for the most part and I really liked JP's character. I was not so enamored of Joanna's character. I felt bad for her husband as he got no time or attention from his wife. And she argued with him about building in his train track around the top of the family room?! Because it wasn't normal?! Huh? Joanna comes across as bitchy and selfish. Thank goodness JP showed integrity at the end because she sure didn't. It also appeared to me that Frank Montoya, who works for Joanna, is a more astute investigator than she is.
The enraged Brady interprets his arrival as personal criticism; Beaumont feels uncomfortable with her resentment and with being in the hometown of his second wife, the serial killer Anne Rowland Corley. . When artist Rochelle Baxter is murdered in Bisbee, Ariz., Brady's department is stunned that Baxter's next of kin is not a person but the Washington State Attorney General's Office. Beaumont (Birds of Prey, etc.) and Cochise County, Ariz., Sheriff Joanna Brady (Paradise Lost, etc.). The most frightening feature is the cause of death--sodium azide, an odorless, tasteless, unregulated chemical used in automobile air bags. The convoluted plot builds to a surprising solution, though the floundering romance ultimately comes off as forced. After a second murder, the two investigators develop mutual respect and even a physical
The ghosts of a painful past are too numerous there, and his reluctant "partner," Sheriff Brady, resents his intrusion and cannot help but make her feelings known.But the road they are forced to travel together is taking some unexpected turns, running two dedicated servants of the law headfirst into the impenetrable stone walls of a shocking conspiracy of silence. Now all that remains of Rochelle Baxter lies on a cold slab in the Cochise County morgue, and Sheriff Joanna Brady knows that murder has once again infected her small desert community. And nobody is watching their backs herethey'll have to watch each other's.. But there is more to this homicide than initially meets the eye—and more to the victim, who died while supposedly under the conscientious protection of the government.A big-city legal establishment has no faith in the abilities of a small-town Sheriff, let alone a female sheriff. The dead woman was a