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Walla Walla Suite / Anne Argula
8 July 2007 – 8:22 pm
Anne Argula’s Walla Walla Suite doesn’t come out until September, so for now the best most folks will be able to do is pre-order this mystery. Cities like Boston, New York, and Los Angeles get far more mysteries set in their environs. But Seattle seems to be up and coming: G. M. Ford, J. A. Jance, Curt Colbert, and now Anne Argula. And Anne Argula is definitely a better writer than our most famous writer of Seattle-based mysteries, J. A. Jance. (…)
Long Time Gone / J. A. Jance
24 September 2006 – 11:26 pm
First, before I say anything about the book itself, I want to spend a paragraph commenting on the Premium Plus book size that a few of the book publishers are beginning to use. HarperCollins and its imprint Avon Books are testing it, starting with Long Time Gone. I have two conflicting desires here. I like reading this format a bit better than the regular mass market paperback size. Not because the type is easier to read, though the book claims that. (…)
Trial by Fury / J. A. Jance
14 October 2005 – 12:38 am
Bubblegum mystery. Trial by Fury, is the third in the J. P. Beaumont mystery series based in Seattle. Like a lot of mystery stories, this one depends on some huge coincidences. I dislike that. But overall, it’s cheap easy fun reading. Neither great nor awful.
The general plot this time is that Beaumont and his partner Peters are put on the case of a black man whose body is discovered in a trash bin near Seattle Center after the state basketball championships. (…)
Frequencies / Joshua Ortega
11 September 2005 – 8:15 am
Joshua Ortega self-published this book a few years ago, though there’s now another edition published by someone that is not himself. I found it in a stack at Elliott Bay books and bought it on impulse (like I do most my books). It took me a long time to read it. He wrote the book in some sort of future made up l33t-speak, so it’s really hard to tell what’s going on. Mr. Ortega seems like a nice guy. (…)
Injustice for All / J. A. Jance
5 September 2005 – 6:14 pm
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. (…)
Until Proven Guilty / J. A. Jance
5 September 2005 – 2:35 pm
Seems like every city in the U.S. has it’s own mystery/cop series. J. A. Jance got the be the writer for Seattle’s series, starring J. P. Beaumont, an alcoholic homicide cop who comes into a bit of money. Until Proven Guilty, the first book in her series tells the story of how Beaumont comes into the money. Beaumont gets a case investigating the murder of a child. Beaumont fingers the wrong suspect, and a vigilante kills him. (…)
