Title: Minor in Possession
Subtitle: a J. P. Beaumont mystery
First published: 1990
Description: A gripping story of buried truths, deceit, andsudden, brutal death from the New York Timesbestselling author of Long Time Gone.All manner of sinners and sufferers come to the rehab ranch in Arizona when they hit rock bottom. For Seattle detective J.P. Beaumont, there is a deeper level of Hell here: being forced to room with teenage drug dealer Joey Rothman. An all-around punk, Joey deserves neither pity nor tears -- until he is murdered by a bullet fired from Beaumont's gun. Someone has set Beau up brilliantly for a long and terrifying fall, dragging the alcoholic ex-cop into a conspiracy of blood and lies that could cost him his freedom ... and his life.
Subjects: Fiction, Mystery, J.P. Beaumont (Fictitious character), Police, Beaumont, j. p. (fictitious character), fiction, Fiction, mystery & detective, police procedural, Seattle (wash.), fiction, Washington (state), fiction
Places: Seattle (Wash.), Seattle, Washington (State)