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Stand down: A J. P. Beaumont Novella

✍ Scribed by Jance, Judith A

Book ID
100605308
Publisher
Witness Impulse; HarperCollins ©2015
Year
2015
Tongue
en-US
Weight
57 KB
Series
J P Beaumont
Category
Fiction
City
New York
ISBN
0062418491

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✦ Synopsis

Life has shifted for J. P. Beaumont. After a tragic accident that devastatedand ultimately disbandedhis Special Homicide Investigaton Team, he accepts that he has left homicide detection behind at this point, but he has a lot of unanticipated free time on his hands. He's keeping busy with renovations on the new house that he and his wife, Mel Soames, the newly appointed chief of police in Bellingham, Washington, have bought. But new fixtures and paint palettes can occupy only so much of Beau's daily life, and Mel is encouraging him to return to where he is needed: investigating crimes.

In the meantime, she is struggling to gain control of her new situation, cast into a department where some are welcomingand some are not. It's been a few months, and the tension in the police department is rising, but Beau realizes Mel has to tackle things in her own way, so he refrains from advising. But when Beau shows up one afternoon to survey the construction at their new house and finds Mel's car there but no sign of her, his investigative instincts kick in. Suddenly he's back in the gameexcept this time, his heart is on the line as well as his professional dignity.

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