Authors: JA Jance

Second Watch (33 page)

Cover design by Richard L. Aquan

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Photograph of Leonard Douglas Davis in “The Story Behind
Second Watch
” is courtesy of Thomas C. Barron.

This book is a work of fiction. The characters, incidents, and dialogue are drawn from the author’s imagination and are not to be construed as real. Any resemblance to actual events or persons, living or dead, is entirely coincidental.

SECOND WATCH
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FIRST EDITION

Epub Edition SEPTEMBER 2013 ISBN: 9780062134691

Library of Congress Cataloging-in-Publication Data

Jance, Judith A.

Second watch : a J. P. Beaumont novel / J. A. Jance. — First edition

p. cm

ISBN 978-0-06-213467-7 (hardcover)

ISBN 978-0-06-226940-9 (international edition)

1. Beaumont, J. P. (Fictitious character)—Fiction. 2. Police—Washington (State)—Seattle—Fiction. 3. Seattle (Wash.)—Fiction. I. Title.

PS3560.A44S43 2013

813’.54—dc23

2012050966