Minor in Possession - Softcover

Jance, J.A.

Softcover

ISBN 10: 0380755467 ISBN 13: 9780380755462

Publisher: Avon, 1990

Synopsis

Ensconced with a sleazy drug dealer while staying at an alcohol rehab ranch, J. P. Beaumont is accused of murder when the dealer is found dead, and Beaumont soon realizes that the real killer wants him dead as well. Reprint.

About this title

About the Author:

J. A. Jance is the New York Times bestselling author of the J. P. Beaumont series, the Joanna Brady series, the Ali Reynolds series, and five interrelated thrillers about the Walker family, as well as a volume of poetry. Born in South Dakota and brought up in Bisbee, Arizona, Jance lives with her husband in Seattle, Washington, and Tucson, Arizona.

From Publishers Weekly:

Fans will be disappointed by a lack of imagination in Jance's ( Until Proven Guilty ) latest mystery featuring J. P. Beaumont, hard-drinking detective. When he checks into an alcohol and drug rehabilitation center in rural Arizona, the bad-tempered Beaumont is paired with an annoying roommate, Joey Rothman, who sneaks out after curfew to deal drugs and seduce girls. After spying his own visiting teenaged daughter smooching with Joey, Beaumont waits up for him with fists bared, joined by the irate father of a young patient whom Joey has impregnated. When Joey's body is found hanging from a tree, apparently plugged dead with Beaumont's gun, the police peg Beaumont along with the pregnant girl's father as their prime suspects. The two men team up with Joey's mother to find the killer. Beaumont, throughout, spouts cliches: "Her look of utter abandonment sliced through my heart like a hot knife." Despite a few dramatic mountainside car chases and fights with machine-gun-toting drug thugs, Jance's plot is plodding, disjointed and predictable.
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About this edition

• Publisher: Avon
• Publication date: 1990
• ISBN 10: 0380755467
• ISBN 13: 9780380755462
• Binding: Mass Market Paperback
• Number of pages: 384