Taking the Fifth

Taking the FifthTop ten New York Times

bestselling author J.A. Jance brings another stunning novel of passion,

violence, and dreams turned deadly, featuring Seattle Homicide

Detective J.P. Beaumont.

There are many bizarre and terrible ways

to die. Seattle Homicide Detective J.P. Beaumont thought he had seen

them all – until he saw this body, its wounds, and the murder weapon: an

elegant woman's shoe, its stiletto heel gruesomely caked with blood.

The evidence is shocking and unsettling, even for a man who prowls the

shadows for a living, for it suggests that savagery is not the exclusive

domain of the predatory male. And the scent of a stylish killer is

pulling Beaumont into a world of drugs, corruption, and murder to view

close–up a cinematic dream at its most nightmarish lethal.