Injustice for All is the second book in J. A. Jance’s J. P. Beaumont mystery series. It’s a few months after Until Proven Guilty and Beaumont is taking a vacation in the San Juan Islands. Anne Corley is still on his mind. The book opens when Beaumont hears a scream. He rushes to the beach to find a woman pulling a man’s lifeless body from the water. The woman is Ginger Watkins, a member of the state parole commission. The man is Sig
Larson, also a member of the parole commission. Beaumont, a reluctant ladies man, consoles Ms. Watkins, who is about to divorce her husband, a candidate for Lieutenant Governor. But she falls off the wagon and crashes Beaumont’s Porsche, dying before she can follow through with it. Initial suspicion falls on a parole commission gadfly who’s vowed revenge after a paroled criminal murders his family. Later, suspicion falls on Beaumont himself when Mona Larson also dies, and Beaumont’s rented car is the culprit.
The second book is also pure bubblegum mystery as well, though Jance starts to lay the groundwork for Beaumont’s battles with alcoholism. Fun, light reading. I’m re-reading the series now, so over the next few months watch for more of these.
Author: J. A. Jance
Title: Injustice for all
Series: J. P. Beaumont
Imprint / publisher: Avon / Hearst (now part of HarperCollins)
Format: Mass market paperback
Publication date: May 1986
Length: 217 p.
ISBN-10: 0-380-89641-9
