Ring in the Dead - (J. P. Beaumont Mysteries) by J A Jance (Paperback)

About the Book

As a flash from the past, the daughter of his first partner Milton Gurkey (Pickles) shows up, and Beaumont relives his rookie days in which--while in the midst of suffering a heart attack--Pickles stumbles into a crime in progress. In the end, a woman's dead, Pickles is unconscious--holding the murder weapon--and rookie Beaumont and his cop friends must find out the truth.

From the Back Cover

J. P. Beaumont may be an old homicide hand now, but back when he was a rookie working with his first partner, Milton Gurkey--a.k.a. Pickles--things took a turn for the worse . . .

One day, at the end of Beaumont and Pickles's shift, a stop at the Doghouse restaurant quickly turns deadly. Not feeling well, Pickles steps out into the parking lot for a breath of fresh air and stumbles into a crime in progress. Suffering from a heart attack, he is found unconscious, with a dead woman on the ground nearby and the murder weapon in his hand.

With Pickles under investigation from Internal Affairs, it's up to the new kid on the block, J. P. Beaumont, and his friends on the force to find out the truth.