"Getting old is hell. J. P. Beaumont is finally taking some time off to have knee-replacement surgery. But instead of taking his mind off work, the operation plunges him into one of the most perplexing and mind-blowing mysteries he's ever faced. A series of dreams takes him back to his early days on the force with the Seattle PD, and then even earlier, to his days in Vietnam, reminding him of people and events he hasn't thought about in years...."--From...

"Years ago, Amos Warren, a prospector, was gunned down out in the desert and Sheriff Brandon Walker made the arrest in the case. Now, the retired Walker is called in when the alleged killer, John Lassiter, refuses to accept a plea deal that would release him from prison with time served. Lassiter wants Brandon and The Last Chance to find Amos's "real" killer and clear his name. Sixteen hundred miles to the north in Seattle, Mel Shames is leaving the...

A self-made millionaire inherits 51% of a former business associate's high-tech lighting company, butting heads with the niece of the deceased, who holds the rest of the the stock, until extortion and murder force them to join forces.

The dentist was sitting bolt upright, mouth opened wide. Stone-cold dead. There was no lack of suspects, the brutalized wife, the pretty sexually abused dental assistant, an ex-con who was a very intimate friend of the widow. Beaumont knew he was closing in on his prey. When a new piece of evidence surfaced, he discovered the true meaning of evil, and had to decide whether the killer should go free.