Taking The Fifth

In this 4th book in the 'J.P. Beaumont' series, the Seattle homicide detective investigates two suspicious deaths. The book can be read as a standalone. ***** This is an early book in the 'J. P. Beaumont' series, and the homicide detective is a jackass 🤨, unlike later books where he's more mature. In......more

3 Stars for Taking the Fifth: J. P. Beaumont, Book 4 (audiobook) by J. A. Jance read by Gene Engene. This was my least favorite book of the series so far. It just seemed to me that the author was trying to juggle too many different elements and the story kind of suffered from it.......more

J.P. Beaumont usually is good company, at least I have found him so on the printed page. I listened to this book, and found him pompous and difficult to like. It might have been the fault of the reader, but I don't think so. I had the story figured out early on, too, which is rare for me, so this pr......more

In this book Beaumont is forced to face is own prejudices when he investigates the death of a gay man. I am not going to lie to you the homophobia is running rife through this book so if that is a trigger for you give this book a miss. We are also confronted with the AIDS epidemic and the feelings t......more

This is OK but Beaumont No. 4 is not one of the better Beaumont novels. Jance ships off many of the continuing characters. Peters is still in his Stryker frame, Big Al's son has an emergency appendectomy, and the Peters kids are on a trip to Disneyland, so Beau is free to thoroughly investigate a b......more