This is the 9th Beaumont novel in this series. It was copyrighted in the early 90's. I love this series and I personally think it is J A Jance's best series. I haven't read these in order, so it was fun going back and reading one of the older ones. For those unfamiliar these books, they are straight up detective novels. In this one, the bodies of a man and a woman are found together in a closet at a school. Beaumont's partner is ill and so he gets stuck with a new partner he doesn't care for. The woman murdered was married, but was known to have had numerous affairs. This makes her husband suspect number one, but Beaumont isn't so sure. The only complaint I have is that with the book being this old, the shocker was a plot line used a great deal during this period of time. It was on every cop show, lifetime movie, and in novels. But, these days that wouldn't really be all that much of a scandal. So, without giving too much away, it is still a good mystery, and still has the humor and dry wit we love about this series.