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A review by achoward
Injustice for All by J.A. Jance
3.0
Book two down...And spoilers.
I'm plugging along, wondering if down the line in these books, Beaumont will not be sleeping with whatever woman shows up first, only to have her get killed off a few pages later.
I'm also wondering why, again, a seasoned detective would exhibit such idiotic tendencies: a woman finds the dead body of her friend in the water and pulls him out. While the local token dumbass smalltown cop bumbles around until his boss shows up, her room is ransacked and she winds up sleeping in Beaumont's room, with some extracurricular sex tossed in, as if no one can resist his charms.
After that, the story sort of falls apart. They have a likely suspect, who of course does not turn out to be the killer. But the worst part of the storyline is not that: it is the fact that Beaumont allows the woman to go off, alone, to an AA meeting, despite all the mystery swirling about and despite that he presumably cares for her. It just strains credibility that someone with supposedly so much experience would allow it given the circumstances.
A few more deaths, what seems to be a subplot about a couple of guys burning up homeless people tossed in for no reason whatsoever, and then we get to the inevitable conclusion where Beaumont gets shot (again!) and the bad guy falls through a skylight. An easy, ok read without too much in the way of excitement or surprise.
I'm plugging along, wondering if down the line in these books, Beaumont will not be sleeping with whatever woman shows up first, only to have her get killed off a few pages later.
I'm also wondering why, again, a seasoned detective would exhibit such idiotic tendencies: a woman finds the dead body of her friend in the water and pulls him out. While the local token dumbass smalltown cop bumbles around until his boss shows up, her room is ransacked and she winds up sleeping in Beaumont's room, with some extracurricular sex tossed in, as if no one can resist his charms.
After that, the story sort of falls apart. They have a likely suspect, who of course does not turn out to be the killer. But the worst part of the storyline is not that: it is the fact that Beaumont allows the woman to go off, alone, to an AA meeting, despite all the mystery swirling about and despite that he presumably cares for her. It just strains credibility that someone with supposedly so much experience would allow it given the circumstances.
A few more deaths, what seems to be a subplot about a couple of guys burning up homeless people tossed in for no reason whatsoever, and then we get to the inevitable conclusion where Beaumont gets shot (again!) and the bad guy falls through a skylight. An easy, ok read without too much in the way of excitement or surprise.