And a very, very good book it was too! This is a series that it's best to start with the first book so you know the whole story. After the first book, it doesn't matter so much which order you read them in but that first book tells the main event that changes J. P. Beaumont's whole life. Beaumont starts out the series as a Seattle Homicide detective and though after eighteen books he's no longer with the Seattle PD, he's still in law enforcement, he still carries a badge and he's still solving homicides. Great series.