A review by vkemp
Betrayal of Trust by J.A. Jance

3.0

J.P. Beaumont and his wife, Mel Soames, are called by their boss, Ross Connors, to report to him immediately. They meet in a coffee shop near Ross' office and he shows them a video, that may or may not be a snuff film. The catch? It is on the phone of the governor's step-grandson. As Beau and Mel investigate, they begin to question if the film is real, but then the body of the young woman who was filmed turns up. Except she has only been dead a shorter time frame than the film indicates. The young man commits suicide. The governor's daughters appear to be involved in some manner, connected to the dead girl through their volunteer work at a local shelter for runaways in Olympia WA. Meanwhile, Beau has been contacted, out of the blue, by a woman who claims to be his cousin, from Beaumont TX, the place Beau's mother always told him his father came from before he enlisted in the Navy and got killed in a motorcycle accident before Beau was born. Jance writes nice twisty plots with few loose ends. I always enjoy checking in with Beau to see how his life is going. I am looking forward to finding out more about his long-lost family.