A More Perfect Union

by J. A. Jance

Paper Book, 1988

Status

Available

Call number

813.54

Publication

New York: Avon, 1988

Description

Fiction. Mystery. Suspense. Thriller. HTML: A shattering tale of corruption and homicide featuring Seattle detective J.P. Beaumont. A shocking photo screamed from the front pages of the tabloids�??the last moments of a life captured for all the world to see. The look of sheer terror eternally frozen on the face of the doomed woman indicated that her fatal fall from an upper story of an unfinished Seattle skyscraper was no desperate suicide�??and that look will forever haunt Homicide Detective J.P. Beaumont. But his hunt for answers and justice is leading to more death, and to dark and terrible secrets scrupulously guarded by men of steel behind the locked doors of a powerful union that extracts its dues payments in blood

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LibraryThing member wdwilson3

This is a good, fast-moving police procedural. I recently read one of the later J.P. Beaumont mysteries and did not like it at all – it was too burdened with minor characters (friends and relatives of Beau, mainly) and their backstory. This book is much earlier in the series, and shows what was

attractive about the books. There is a fairly convoluted crime, a single-minded detective, some danger, a small cast of familiar stereotypical characters, and some Seattle backdrops. It’s not literature, but it keeps you reading.

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LibraryThing member Maydacat

Beau dives into a case that he hasn’t been assigned to. He is supposed to an advisor on a movie set, but they aren’t listening to him. When a body is discovered floating in the water, Beau goes into full detective mode. He goes a bit too far in pursuing leads and it lands him in hot water and

some danger as well. The mystery is well written and exciting. The characters seem real, as they cope with the good and the bad that life throws at them. This series continues to be entertaining and intriguing.

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