MURDER IS STILL THE NAME OF THE GAME...

Former Seattle homicide cop, J. P. Beaumont, is learning to enjoy the new realities of retirement doing morning crossword puzzles by a roaring fireplace; playing Frisbee with his new dog; having quiet lunches with his still working wife. But then his past comes calling.

When a long ago acquaintance, Alan Dale, shows up on Beau's doorstep with a newborn infant in hand and asking for help locating his missing daughter, Beau finds himself faced with an investigation that will turn his own life upside down by dragging his none-too-stellar past onto a roller-coaster ride that may well derail his serene present. Even in retirement, murder is still the name of J. P. Beaumont's game.

Living in somewhat boring retirement in Bellingham, J.P. is shocked out of his torpor when a character from his past, Alan Dale, from Taking the Fifth, shows up on his doorstep in Bellingham, Washington, with a surprising unintended consequence from Beau's free-wheeling days back in the Eighties—a grandchild born to a young woman named Naomi, a daughter J.P. never knew he had. Naomi, homeless and caught up in the world of drugs had abandoned her newborn in a local hospital, and Beau is called upon to track her down in order to set the many wrongs to rights.

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