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When a really well liked police officer known as "Gentle Ben" is brutally murdered in his own home, along with everyone else in his family, but one small child who was in hiding, homicide detective J.P Beaumont takes it hard. He also takes on the case. JP smells cover up but it takes him a while to untangle himself from the forces within the department who are part of the cover-up to get to the bottom of things. Needless to say, JP manages to exonerate Ben and implicate quite a few others!. Author J.A. Jance through JP, succeeds intaking the reader on an intriguing and scary trail of internal subterfuge.

Beaumont is one of Jance's continuing characters and despite all of his idiosyncracies, and his whining, you just can't help but get to love him. He's also a great detective. Jance has led JP through many episodes at this point and I've yet to be let down!

A policeman and his family are brutally murdered. When J.P. Beaumont begins his investigation, he finds out some unsettling things about the slain policeman's association with known gang members. He also discovers that the man had been investigating some crooked cops. Which group murdered Ben Weston and his family and what was their motive? We see a softer side of Beaumont as he deals with a small boy who is the only survivor of the massacre. Jance is a reliable author and you can count on a good read in this series.

Detective Beaumont must clear the name of a fellow police officer and protect the officer's son from the sadistic killers who mudered the boy's family.

In the process of doing this he finds that the "brotherhood of the badge" might not hold for all officers.

J.A. Jance is a teriffic writer and you should enjoy this page turner.

I must admit I have been a big fan of J.A. Jance and her detective JP Beaumont for quite some time now. Not only are her mysteries top rate but her realistic setting in parts of Seattle are amazing. If you are from Seattle you have to read all of the books in the Beaumont series. I'm especially proud of the way she has memorialized the Doghouse, a popular Seattle restaurant that has since been closed.

This specific book is the 10th in the Beaumont series. It involves the murder of a fellow SPD officer and his family. Detective Beaumont teams up with Junior, the only family survivor, as well as Internal Affairs in an effort to get to the bottom of the murders. In this book Jance also gives a special recognition to local Seattle Radio Station KLSY and the Teddy Bear Patrol. Two fantastic organizations who have done a lot of good in the greater Seattle Community.

This was my third J. A. Jance book and I will definitely be reading more.

Although I did get a feeling for Detective Beaumont in this book, I would have liked to be a little closer to the rest of the characters. Junior, for example, seems rather unbelieveably blah and emotionally capable of dealing with his situation. This seemed peculiar to me. I did not get a sharp understanding of several of the police officers' personalities.

I found myself reading along and hoping that in the next few pages, the pace would pick up and I would begin to feel the excitement that needs to accompany a thriller. Unfortunately, this never happened.

I do think the story shows the importance of the work done by organizations such as King County's Teddy Bear Patrol and supporting merchants and radio stations such as KLSY. For this reason alone I would recommend reading this book. Perhaps others will find it more to their liking if they have a different expectation than I did.

Buy this book and all the other Beau stories.
Read them from the first to the last.
Best read you'll ever have!
I love JP Beaumont!

Great book by a great author. I love her writing and anyone buying her books needs to look at her website and read the books in order.

I was a very good book to get into. I could not put it down and carried it with me everywhere I went and that means in the house. IT WAS GREAT. Thank you. And the large print is great.

Is the brutal slaying of a Seattle cop and his family the work of a random killing or a cover up for internal conflicts within the police department itself? J.P. Beaumont takes the case despite a personal stake and one lone witness. His witness is a five year-old boy who'd survived the carnage of his family and pet by hiding in a closet.
The victim was respected and like in the community, but soon after the discovery of the slayings rumors start to float. "Gentle Ben" Weston is a dirty cop.
Who will benefit from the blackening of a man's name? Ron Peters moves himself from Media Relations and finds himself as a detective.
Excellent tightly packed story with all the twists for Beau fans.
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