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The Beaumont and Joanna Brady series converge in Partner in Crime and in Fire and Ice.
#1 Until Proven Guilty (1985)
#2 Injustice for All (1986)
#3 Trial by Fury (1986)
#4 (nominated for: 1987
#5 Taking the Fifth (1987)
#6 Improbable Cause (1987)
#7 A More Perfect Union (1988)
#8 Dismissed with Prejudice (1989)
#9 Minor in Possession (1990)
#10 Payment in Kind (1991)
#11 Without Due Process (1993)
#12 Failure to Appear (1994)
#13 Lying in Wait (1995)
J.P.'s grandfather, from whom he gets the Piedmont name, has recently died. He is attempting to pay more attention to his grandmother.
A horrific death in a fishing boat fire turns out to be a torture murder, and the widow is a woman J.P. attended school with. Else was a cheerleader when he was a basketball player. Also living at the fishing marina is a man named Alan Torvaldsen, who was also a classmate. The dead man is Guntar Gebhardt, whose father was an S.S. officer in World War II. Guntar quietly honored his father's memory with a secret collection of toy German soldiers.
But when a woman on a nearby island dies in a similar manner, all previous conclusions seem to be wrong.
This is a fast-paced book with twists and turns at ever juncture.
#14 Name Withheld (1997)
#15 Breach of Duty (1999)
#16 Birds of Prey (2002)
#17 Partner in Crime (2003)
#18 Long Time Gone (2005)
#19 Justice Denied (2007)
#20 Fire and Ice (2009)
#21 Betrayal of Trust (2011)
#22 Ring in the Dead (novella, 2013)
#23 Second Watch (2013)
#24 Stand Down (novella, 2015)
#25 Dance of the Bones (2015) (Brandon Walker crossover)
#26 Still Dead (novella, 2017)
#27 Proof of Life (2017)
#28 Sins Of The Fathers (2019)
#29 Nothing to Lose (2022)
#130 Den of Iniquity (2024)
