From AudioFile
J.P. Beaumont is a tough Seattle cop with traditional values. In the course of investigating two murders, he is introduced to the worlds of show business, drugs and alternate life-styles. He is uncomfortable, but he perseveres and solves the murders. Well-read by Gene Engene, individual characters are well-differentiated but not overdone. The voice of J.P. Beaumont is especially appropriate--he sounds like a tough, opinionated cop with a soft heart. This is a quality production which makes the listener eager for more titles in the series. J.D.P. (c)AudioFile, Portland, Maine


Book Description

There are many bizarre and terrible ways to die. Seattle Homicide Detective J.P. Beaumont thought he had seen them all -- until he saw this body, its wounds, and the murder weapon: an elegant woman's shoe, its stiletto heel gruesomely caked with blood. The evidence is shocking and unsettling, even for a man who prowls the shadows for a living, for it suggests that savagery is not the exclusive domain of the predatory male. And the scent of a stylish killer is pulling Beaumont into a world of drugs, corruption, and murder to view close-up a cinematic dream at its most nightmarish ... and lethal.


About the Author
J.A. Jance is the American Mystery Award-winning author of the popular J.P. Beaumont mystery series as well as eight mysteries featuring Joanna Brady. Born in South Dakota and brought up in Bisbee, Arizona, Jance lives with her husband in Seattle, Washington.

FROM THE PUBLISHER

It seemed like a most unlikely instrument of death: a lady's cobalt blue pump with stiletto heels. But the fact that it was caked with the blood of—and found damningly close to—a very dead man gives Seattle Homicide Detective J.P. Beaumont a solid lead into a case of lethal theatrics and unsavory union doings. He has a pay stub, a matchbook, one corpse—and an unsettling feeling of more to come. And he has a murder weapon. All Beau has to do now is find the woman who fills it.

FROM THE CRITICS

Library Journal

This 1987 title is one of the author's popular mysteries featuring Seattle homicide detective J.P. Beaumont. This outing finds Beamont pursuing the killer of a man done in by a stiletto heel. While the book is not out of print, this hardcover-only edition will save libraries from having to replace continually less sturdy paperbacks. Copyright 2003 Reed Business Information.

AudioFile - John Niessink

Engene￯﾿ﾽs performance as first-person narrator J.P. Beaumont is an ideal mix of machismo and vulnerability. J.N. ￯﾿ﾽAudioFile, Portland, Maine

AudioFile - Julie D. Pringle