Gene Engene
Darby Buckingham, the West's hardest hitting, toughest fighting, fastest thinking hero, now charges into what threatens to be his most unbeatable challenge: helping the Union Pacific win the great railroad race across the continent. With time running out, the Derby Man must overcome ferocious Sioux and Cheyenne, brutal weather and terrain, the treacherous Missouri River and the toughest collection of men ever assembled to lay track. And, if that
...23) The Mongol
24) Taking the Fifth
Homicide Detective Beaumont had little to go on - a body, definitely male and decidedly dead, with strange little puncture wounds.
25) Name Withheld
Beaumont is called in to investigate a body floating in nearby Elliott Bay. The case draws Seattle’s favorite detective into the cutting-edge world of biotechnology with personal betrayals and the selling of trade secrets.
26) Kiss of the Bees
In Tucson, twenty years ago, a psychopath named Andrew Carlisle brought blood and terror into the home of Diana Ladd Walker and her family. When Carlisle died in prison, Diana and her husband, ex-county sheriff Brandon Walker, believed their long nightmare was finally over. They were wrong. Their beloved adopted daughter Lani has vanished. A serial killer is dead, but his malevolence lives on in another. And now the fiend holds Lani's innocent
...27) Trial by Fury
The body lay amid the garbage behind a Seattle grocery store. It was a high school basketball coach - he had been lynched.
28) Improbable Cause
Beaumont has a dead dentist on his hands. His suspects include a sexually abused dental assistant, a brutalized wife, and her ex-con lover.
Set in Arizona, this is the gripping story of Diana Ladd—the hunted. A brutal, psychopathic murderer is released from prison—and stalks Diana with intent to kill. After only six years in prison, Andrew Carlisle has been released. A brilliant psychopath convicted of the brutal torturemurder of a Papago Indian girl, he is free once more to prowl the Arizona desert to feed his insatiable hunger for blood and fear...and revenge.
31) Lying in Wait
A shadow from Beaumont's past shows up after 30 years, an ex-girlfriend - whose husband has been brutally murdered.
36) Breach of Duty
In Breach of Duty, after a three year hiatus, J. A. Jance resumes her Seattle-based mystery series featuring homicide detective Jonas Piedmont Beaumont.
The novel begins on Lake Chelan (in eastern Washington State) as Beau scatters his grandfather's ashes in the water. The reflective moment offers Jance a perfect opportunity to get new readers up to speed with her hero (and offers a quick refresher course for the many ongoing Jance fans).
...37) Long Time Gone
When a middle-aged nun unexpectedly recalls the grisly details of an unsolved murder she witnessed as a child, Special Homicide Investigation Team member J. P. Beaumont gets the case. The investigation brings him close to a band of powerful coconspirators who are willing to go to any lengths to keep their deadly secrets under wrap. It will take all of Beau's wits to find answers-and outlive his prey. But the detective is distracted when his former
...38) Walking Money
State cop Bill Tasker has had problems in the past, but nothing compared to what's about to happen to him. A satchel with a million and a half in skimmed money is about to go walking. A phony community activist has decided to cash in, but a local FBI agent also has his eyes on the prize, a key witness gets murdered, and it's Tasker who ends up framed for the whole thing. Soon, other people become seduced by the cash as well, and as the satchel
...39) Shock Wave
Florida Department of Law Enforcement agent Bill Tasker is still smarting from a run-in with the FBI that almost got him killed when he reluctantly teams up with them again on a case involving a stolen Stinger missile. The op goes smoothly enough (though the feds take all the credit; what else is new?), but something about the whole set-up just doesn't feel right to him. He pokes around a bit and stirs up more trouble than a nest of rattlesnakes:
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