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J.A. Jance's SECOND WATCH is one of her best. The novel is really two stories: One about a 40-year old unsolved homicide, and the other about Detective Beaumont's Vietnam experiences.
Beaumont's aging knees were hurting so at the insistence of his wife, he entered the hospital for a double knee replacement [a procedure not recommended by most orthopedists]. In the recovery room following surgery, while under the influence of postsurgical narcotics, Monica Wellington, a University of Washington coed murdered in 1973, wanders into Beaumont's room, sits on his bed, and chastises him for not keeping his promise to her mother that he would find and bring to justice her killer. Days later, in another dream sequence while still under the influence of pain medications, he is visited by Army Lieutenant Douglas Davis. Davis, a West Pointer, and young Beaumont's platoon leader in Vietnam, talks of the many firefights they participated in bringing forth sad memories that Beau had managed to repress over the years. Upon Beau's arrival in the unit, Davis had loaned him a thick dog-eared paperback, The Rise And Fall Of The Third Reich, to read and report back to him. Sadly, Beau was reminded of how that book changed his life and how much he owed to Lieutenant Davis. Beaumont believes these virtual visits were real and purposeful and although still recovering in a hospital bed he begins taking action to resolve them. Almost immediately tragedy strikes.
The story has many twists and turns. When the reader is pretty well assured a situation has been resolved, the story veers off in a different direction. Jance masterfully injects her real-life thoughts into the Vietnam portion.
Second Watch might be the best of Jance's many novels. One senses that Ms. Jance has a personal stake in this one. I strongly recommend Jance fans grab a copy. For those of you who haven't been introduced to J. A. Jance's many novels, I suggest this is a good one to start with. I rate Second Watch a 5.


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Second Watch A J P Beaumont Novel J A Jance 9780062134677 Books Reviews

The venerable J. P. Beaumont, Jance's signature hard boiled Seattle detective, takes on a new dimension as he recovers from knee replacement surgery, and he is haunted by the first homicide case he ever worked, one with potentially lethal consequences. In his quest to solve a forty-year-old homicide, he sets a chain reaction in motion that keeps the reader glued to page after page. As part of his personal retrospective, Beaumont, takes himself back to his time serving in Vietnam and unfinished business that has never left him. It is the war of my generation, and its images will never leave those who served, those who watched it on T.V., and the 58,000 who never made it home, wherever they are. I highly recommended this action-packed thriller with the poignant twist. J.A. Jance writes from her own experiences with that tragic war. She immerses herself in her characters, and the reader sees them change as they act and react and as their lives enter new stages
I should probably start this review by stating I am in Vietnam as I write this, and I was in Vietnam on the date mentioned in the book, August 6, 1966, and that most of my time here was spent in Pleiku. Perhaps another reason I like Jance’s work so much, if because her book take place in places I know, like Seattle, Bellingham and Whidbey Island. Add to that, like a Beau, I have replacement parts and numb spots. Now take all of this, combine it with post surgery drug induced dreams that provide two mysteries to be solved, both dating back more than 40 years and you have stories with twists and turns that keep you engaged. It’s a great read.
J.P. Beaumont finally admits that he needs to have a dual knee replacement. In the recovery room while still very “doped up” he has a series of dreams...... one takes him back to his first murder case as a Homicide Detective, which remains unsolved. While another dream takes him back to his time in Vietnam! Both dreams are a stark reminder of unfinished business! ‘The girl in a barrel’ case he promised the mother they would find who killed her daughter. He had promised his Lt. that he would find his fiancé & tell her how much he loved her! Both cases are resolved, with many misadventures along the way...... I especially enjoyed the character of Nurse Madge who kept him taking his meds, doing his rehab & eating properly! “The story behind the Second Watch was quite interesting & the Ring in the Dead novella was also a very interesting story! Thanks to J.A. Janice for another fantastic book!
I have read all the Beaumont books and this one is the most heartfelt. This story is part fiction but the primary story line about Vietnam is based on true experiences with are touching. J.A. Jance and I are about the same age and we lived though the Vietnam War, the first war that was brought into your living room nightly on the evening news. J.A. went to school with the Purple Heart hero, Lennie D. Beau, as the fictional character, is having double knee replacement surgery. On pain meds, he has visions of his time in Vietnam. I was personally interested in Beau's surgery recovery, myself just having a single knee replacement. Beau certainly had much more mobility within days of surgery than I have had, even after several months, but after all, he is fictional! The solving of all the tangent mysteries is engrossing and I didn't want to stop reading until I finished the book. I highly recommend this book and I have already ordered the new Beaumont mystery coming out in September. I will say that I shed more than one tear in reading the book and the epilogue, "Every Story has a Beginning." I wish every author would tell you what events led to the writing of their novel.
J.A. Jance's SECOND WATCH is one of her best. The novel is really two stories One about a 40-year old unsolved homicide, and the other about Detective Beaumont's Vietnam experiences.
Beaumont's aging knees were hurting so at the insistence of his wife, he entered the hospital for a double knee replacement [a procedure not recommended by most orthopedists]. In the recovery room following surgery, while under the influence of postsurgical narcotics, Monica Wellington, a University of Washington coed murdered in 1973, wanders into Beaumont's room, sits on his bed, and chastises him for not keeping his promise to her mother that he would find and bring to justice her killer. Days later, in another dream sequence while still under the influence of pain medications, he is visited by Army Lieutenant Douglas Davis. Davis, a West Pointer, and young Beaumont's platoon leader in Vietnam, talks of the many firefights they participated in bringing forth sad memories that Beau had managed to repress over the years. Upon Beau's arrival in the unit, Davis had loaned him a thick dog-eared paperback, The Rise And Fall Of The Third Reich, to read and report back to him. Sadly, Beau was reminded of how that book changed his life and how much he owed to Lieutenant Davis. Beaumont believes these virtual visits were real and purposeful and although still recovering in a hospital bed he begins taking action to resolve them. Almost immediately tragedy strikes.
The story has many twists and turns. When the reader is pretty well assured a situation has been resolved, the story veers off in a different direction. Jance masterfully injects her real-life thoughts into the Vietnam portion.
Second Watch might be the best of Jance's many novels. One senses that Ms. Jance has a personal stake in this one. I strongly recommend Jance fans grab a copy. For those of you who haven't been introduced to J. A. Jance's many novels, I suggest this is a good one to start with. I rate Second Watch a 5.