HardCover. Pub the Date: July. 2007 Pages: 384 in Publisher by: Harper Collins of The investigation of LaShawn Tompkins's murder seems straightforward enough. Upon his release from death row. The ex Hundred and-drug dealer returned to his old neighborhood the where he was gunned down on his mother's doorstep. Just another case of turf warfare. At least that's what it looks like on the surface to Seattle investigator JP Beaumont. who's been handed the assignment under the strictest confidence. But as Beau starts digging. the situation becomes more complicated than he 'd thought. It appears that LaShawn really had turned over a new leaf at the King Street Mission and his murder was premeditated. Someone had targeted the man for death. Meanwhile. Beau's lover and fellow cop. Mel Soames. is given her own hush -hush investigation. A routine check on registered sex offenders has r...