Breach of Duty: A J. P. Beaumont Novel

For the first time as a premium edition, a reissue of the fourteenth J. P. Beaumont novel by New York Times bestselling author J. A. Jance.

Jance sends Seattle homicide detective J. P. Beaumont and his partner Sue Danielson to Bitter Lake after a fatal arson fire uncovers three hundred thousand dollars in cash. The novel tracks Beaumont north to Everett to interrogate estranged relatives, uncovering years of family bitterness alongside questions of blackmail.

The Seattle Police Department simultaneously confronts a second puzzle after skeletal remains appear among late-night role-players in Seward Park.

This fourteenth installment pairs Beaumont with a warning from a Quinault shaman, tracking stolen tribal bones and a suspicious drowning across King County.

• Race Against Time: A frantic tip leads Beaumont to a bartender with emerald-green hair at the Hurricane Cafe, whose sudden disappearance threatens to make him the next casualty of an ancient curse.
• Pacific Northwest Setting: The investigation stretches from upscale Highlands estates to a neglected Everett yard where an Alzheimer’s patient paces a dirt trench locked to a backyard clothesline.
• Police Procedural: Friction boils over inside the fifth-floor squad room as an ambitious new commander demands quick clearances while Beaumont pushes deeper into unauthorized territory.
• Cold Case: A decade-old tree burial on the Kitsap Peninsula unravels into fresh danger after grave robbers disturb a sacred canoe and scatter its contents across a public park.
• Also by This Author: Nothing to Lose, Second Watch and Missing and Endangered.