Without Due Process

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Summary: Ghastly murders! Less than exciting sleuthing ...
Review: 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.

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Summary: Who are the bad guys?
Review: 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.

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Summary: Buy this book.
Review: 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!

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Summary: Traitors to the Badge
Review: 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.

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Summary: Ghastly murders! Less than exciting sleuthing ...
Review: 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.

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Summary: Beaumont Tracks Internally -- Police Corruption!
Review: 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!