Betrayal of Trust is the twentieth mystery by New York Times bestseller J.A. Jance to feature Seattle P.I. J. P. Beaumont. When Beau discovers a snuff film recorded on a smart phone-a horrific crime that has a devastating effect on two troubled teens-his investigation unleashes a firestorm that blazes all the way up through the halls of Washington state government. Betrayal of Trust is certain to win this phenomenal crime fiction master a wealth of...

"An anonymous letter from a Very Disappointed Reader sends a novelist back to the lake where she spent her childhood summers in order to prove that what she wrote happened the way she'd remembered. But the truth turns out to be far more complicated, showing that sometimes the story we think we're telling is another story altogether"--

High school physics teacher and basketball coach Dillon Slater finds himself drawn to Claire Templeton, the mother of the troubled fifteen-year-old boy he is working with and a new arrival in town that he finds hard to resist.