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Fire and Ice (J.P. Beaumont #19)
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J.A. Jance
Seattle investigator J. P. Beaumont is working a series of murders in which six young women have been wrapped in tarps, doused with gasoline, and set on fire. Their charred remains have been scattered around various dump sites, creating a grisly pattern of death across western Washington.
At the same time, thousands of miles away in the Arizona desert, Cochise County she
...moreHardcover, 338 pages
Published
August 1st 2009
by William Morrow & Company
(first published January 1st 2009)
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This was my first exposure to JA Jance - and it introduced me to two of her characters. I found myself delighting in the tiny details and geographical accuracy of her Seattle-and-environs setting, and marveling at her ability to not only switch voice but the literal point of view she was writing in as she shifted between Beaumont and Brady's stories, and slowly brought them together.
Beaumont's of the Washington State Attorney General's Special Homicide Investigation Team (go ahead, fi...more
Beaumont's of the Washington State Attorney General's Special Homicide Investigation Team (go ahead, fi...more
I like J.A. Jance's novels, which are usually police procedurals--more good detective work than action and suspense--and complex family relationships. In this novel, she combines her two series. J.P. Beaumont is a detective in Seattle and, with his detective wife, is trying to solve a series of homicides of women wrapped in tarps, doused with gasoline, and set on fire. Sheriff Joanna Brady of Cochise County, Arizona, is working two cases: an elderly caretaker of an ATV park has been repeatedly r...more
J.A.Jance is one of my all-time favorite mystery writers. I'd be hard pressed to choose between her two great series--J.P. Beaumont(Seattle) and Sheriff Joanna Brady (Cochise County, AZ). I love them both. Sadly, this novel proves that I don't love them together--at least the way Jance has chosen to do it. The action jumps from Joanna in AZ to Beau in WA every few paragraphs. Beau, who suddenly seems old and creaky (boo), still tells his tale first person. Mix that with Joanna(who,thankfull...more
Fans of both J.A. Jance's flagship mystery series--the J.P. Beaumont and the Joanna Brady series--will enjoy Fire and Ice, which is true to the spirit of both imaginary worlds. (Those who are not yet fans may want to select books earlier in each series in order to have more of the back story before reading this one.)
Beaumont and Brady have come together before, and for me, the ending of the previous book (Partners in Crime, 2002)was disturbing. Perhaps it was for the author, as well,...more
Beaumont and Brady have come together before, and for me, the ending of the previous book (Partners in Crime, 2002)was disturbing. Perhaps it was for the author, as well,...more
3 1/2 stars.
Special Investigator, J. P. Beaumont has been installed in the new Special Homicide Investigation Team, (S.H.I.T.) returns from vacation to view the autopsy of the 6th victim that had recently been dumped in the Western Seattle area. All victims were young Spanish women. They had been wrapped in tarplin, and burned. All the prior victims had their teeth removed but the present victim did not.
While this is happening, in Cochise County, Arizona, Sheriff Joanna B...more
Special Investigator, J. P. Beaumont has been installed in the new Special Homicide Investigation Team, (S.H.I.T.) returns from vacation to view the autopsy of the 6th victim that had recently been dumped in the Western Seattle area. All victims were young Spanish women. They had been wrapped in tarplin, and burned. All the prior victims had their teeth removed but the present victim did not.
While this is happening, in Cochise County, Arizona, Sheriff Joanna B...more
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J.P. Beaumont of S. H. I. T. S. (Special Homicide investigation Team) in Seattle and Joanna Brady, Sheriff of Cochise County Arizona are both in this book. Each is working on a case that by the end of the book join together. Meanwhile Joanna has several other cased going as she deals with small town politics and ruffled feathers. Beau and Wife and partner Mel work a case of burned bodies of young women found in similar circumstances. The book shifts from Arizona to Washington and back as each...more
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Fire and Ice – 5 Paws
J. A. Jance
William Morrow, 2009, 338 Pages
ISBN No. 978-0-06-123822-9
Fans of J. A. Jance will be thrilled with this new book where J. P. Beaumont and Joanna Brady are once again thrown together. The individual cases are very far apart in both distance and the type of case.
Beaumont is at home in Seattle happy in his life with Melissa Soames, his wife and sometimes partner, in the Special Homicide Investigation Team a/k/a S.H.I.T...more
J. A. Jance
William Morrow, 2009, 338 Pages
ISBN No. 978-0-06-123822-9
Fans of J. A. Jance will be thrilled with this new book where J. P. Beaumont and Joanna Brady are once again thrown together. The individual cases are very far apart in both distance and the type of case.
Beaumont is at home in Seattle happy in his life with Melissa Soames, his wife and sometimes partner, in the Special Homicide Investigation Team a/k/a S.H.I.T...more
“Fire and Ice” by Jance was not my favorite mystery or detective story. The issue of elder abuse and the lack of oversight in nursing facilities, particularly those who care for Alzheimer's and dementia patients being one central theme was a good start and the idea of identification by dental record being used is a common practice. However, in this book, J.P. Beaumont’s investigation of the ongoing murders revolving around the Mexican Cervantes Cartel did not ring true and did not hold together...more
Fire And Ice: A Beaumont And Brady Novel by J.A. Jance
This is the second Beau and Brady novel and it went well, but I thought the two would get together sooner than they did in this book. Beau is on a case in the Seattle area that surrounds a missing woman from Bisbee, that has been found murdered in a dense forested area by Cle Elum. The one real break in the case, was that the murderer was afraid of pulling teeth, as the other 5 women were found without any teeth. Because this d...more
This is the second Beau and Brady novel and it went well, but I thought the two would get together sooner than they did in this book. Beau is on a case in the Seattle area that surrounds a missing woman from Bisbee, that has been found murdered in a dense forested area by Cle Elum. The one real break in the case, was that the murderer was afraid of pulling teeth, as the other 5 women were found without any teeth. Because this d...more
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Ms. Jance has combined her two key characters from two series of books into one, wrapping up one very loose end at the same time.
J. P. Beaumont has moved on: he left the Seattle P.D. and has remarried to wife number 3. It sounds like she is good for him.
Sheriff Joanna Brady has too much on her plate all at one time. Plus she's the Best Person at the marriage of one of her good friends; her mom and step-father are starting a new aspect of their lives and she's coping with...more
J. P. Beaumont has moved on: he left the Seattle P.D. and has remarried to wife number 3. It sounds like she is good for him.
Sheriff Joanna Brady has too much on her plate all at one time. Plus she's the Best Person at the marriage of one of her good friends; her mom and step-father are starting a new aspect of their lives and she's coping with...more
Best of both worlds--Beaumont and Brady at the same time.
I am more of a fan of Jance's J.P. Beaumont series, set in Seattle than her Joanna Brady series, set in southern Arizona, so I wasn't sure what to expect from this book which has both detectives in it. Fire and Ice does a good job of keeping two story lines active and interesting while providing a link between them. The author includes lots of well researched details that add local color and interest and give validity to the geographical settings. I was disappointed that the ending did not pr...more
Pretty good book. I picked it up while on a long drive and it not only captured my interest but distracted me from antibiotic-related nausea. I wasn't crazy about the two totally different storylines, with Joanna Brady in Arizona and J.P. Beaumont up in Washington state. Natch, they knew each other but only briefly. The homicides that he was working and the missing person case that she was working all turned out to be related, of course. The two cases would have been quite interesting on th...more
What can I say. J. A. Jance is my favourite author and , lo and behold, this book is (gasp) AUTOGRAPHED to moi. I especially enjoyed this book because it had both Joanna Brady (County Sheriff in Arizona) and J. P. Beaumont (Special Investigator, along with his spouse and partner, Mel Soammes from Seattle) working on different murders that end up being attached. They are both somewhat embarrassed about meeting again, because the first time the worked together Joanna threw herself at poor old bach...more
I always like JA Jance. She usually does either the JoAnna Brady Sheriff series, based in Arizona, OR she does the JP Beaumont series based in Seattle. This book was an attempt at a cross-over. The mystery in the Seattle area intersected with the mystery in Arizona. So she jumped around between the cases. I found it a little bit confusing as each new section was prefaced with a picture of a cactus. Maybe a pine tree for the sections about Seattle would have alerted me to the change in venue for ...more
This is the first suspense/mystery book I didn't finish. I got about halfway through it then decided to see if it was the author's first novel. I was shocked to see she was on the NY Bestsellers List.
It's the first mystery book I've ever read where the narrator describes in minute detail the characters coming to the scene of the action then the next scene is of the characters TALKING about what happened during the action scene.
I found this book excrucriatingly boring. ...more
It's the first mystery book I've ever read where the narrator describes in minute detail the characters coming to the scene of the action then the next scene is of the characters TALKING about what happened during the action scene.
I found this book excrucriatingly boring. ...more
Once again, J.A. Jance combines two different series and has J.P. Beaumont interacting with Sheriff Joanna Brady through converging investigations that alternate between the cold wet environment of the state of Washington and the searing desert of Arizona. Jance tries to tie up some of the ongoing threads from the Brady series while giving glimpses into the current lifestyle of thrice-married Beaumont. The constant shift between the experiences of the two main characters and the change in poin...more
This is another author who has combined two of her series characters in one novel - J.P. Beaumont (Seattle, WA) and Joanna Brady (Cochise County, AZ). Beaumont is investigating the murders of six young women and Joanna is investigating the homicide of an elderly caretakier of an ATV park. The two cases are, of course, linked and the two must get together (over the phone) to help each other solve the two cases. I was in Ellensburg, WA and Kittitas County 3 weeks ago and half of this novel take...more
Beaumont and his wife Mel are investigating the case of the charred remains of a woman found in western Washington State, one of a series of similar murders. Meanwhile, Joanna Brady is investigating the death of a man in an ATV park and the case of a nursing home which has not been treating its patients the way they should. Beaumont's victim turns out to be the sister of one of Joanna Brady's detectives. The books jumps back and forth from Beaumont and Mel, and Joanna and her detectives, but ...more
Well this book started off as a 4 star book for me and then... the last 30 pages happened. This book's ending was anticlimatic. The book itself kept me interested and then *poof* soggy ending. I haven't totally given up though. This was my first time reading a book by this author and my interest is peaked. The two protagonists, Sheriff Brady and J.P Beaumont are interesting characters. I might try another one of J.A. Jance's books in the future provided that they have better endings. But...more
I picked up the Playaway of this title because the notes said the story revolved around intertwined cases being investigated by Jance's two main characters in different series: Joanna Brady, sheriff of Cochise Co. Arizona and J.P. Beaumont an agent with tHe Washington state attorney general's office. The story followed each character in alternating chapters. I thought this made the story choppy and I didn't like it as much as some of the other mysteries I've read involving Brady. It did give me ...more
"Seattle investigator J. P. Beaumont is working a series of murders in which six young women have been wrapped in tarps, doused with gasoline, and set on fire. Their charred remains have been scattered around various dump sites, creating a grisly pattern of death across western Washington.
At the same time, thousands of miles away in the Arizona desert, Cochise County sheriff Joanna Brady is looking into a homicide in which the elderly caretaker of an ATV park was run over and left...more
At the same time, thousands of miles away in the Arizona desert, Cochise County sheriff Joanna Brady is looking into a homicide in which the elderly caretaker of an ATV park was run over and left...more
Joanna Brady and JP Beaumont working together again; well, not really together so much as working on related cases in their respective states. Not a great example of either Brady or Beaumont with Brady spending most of her time dealing with her personal life rather than her law enforcement duties and Beaumont spending most of his time thinking about his new wife. Weak, but readable and keeps both series going for a while longer, although it feels like Jance is running out of steam in the Brady...more
Jance is certainly a competent writer, but I'm not so sure I like the combining of Beaumont and Brady. This is the second I've read like this. Basically, I'm tired of Beaumont -- he thinks too much and since it's written in 1st person, I get to listen to his ruminations a lot. And he ruminates about getting older a lot. Brady is somewhat more interesting.
It's a fast read and better than a lot of stuff out there these days.
It's a fast read and better than a lot of stuff out there these days.
An excellent J.A. Jance mystery. I had been a bit dismayed because I thought the Joanna Brady serious had already run its course, but this book brings it back to life. It is multilayered, complex, an humorous. By putting Joanna Brady and J.P. Beaumount togeter, Jance really spices up the plot. I loved the switch back and forth between Arizona and Washington State. And the plot intersected in a way that I didn't expect.
She is one of my favorite authors. She writes two series - one is the Joanna Brady Series and the other one is called the JP Beaumont Series. Her books are about solving homicides. All the characters are the same as her first book and it is interesting to see how much they have changed. I would recommend reading the first series of either Joanna Brady or JP Beaumont. In this latest book, she incorporates both characters.
Not my favorite Beaumont or Brady book. Portions of each chapter were from each main characters viewpoint and the Beaumont portion was told in the first person, while the Brady portion was in the third person - just a bit weird and tough to adapt to. A minor point I admit, but it diminished my appreciation of the story, which focused on disappearing young women in two different states.
An okay Jance book, certainly readable, but not her best work. I've always been a big fan of the Sheriff Brady books, but I think she let a lot of Brady's storylines unfulfilled while concentrating on combining the one case Brady & Beaumont were working on. If she keeps aging Beaumont she's going to have to retire him or have him killed off because of his infirmaries.
Disappointing. Includes 2 of my favorite characters...Sheriff Joanna Brady in Arizona and P J Beaumont in Seattle. Usually appear in their own books written by Jance. Shifting back and forth to their locales split up the story just too much. Ending was really dumb...kind of just dribbled the story away. If Jance tries to combine the two series again, she needs to get them in the same place at the same time with a lot zippier story line.
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