Minor In Possession

Description for MINOR IN POSSESSION by J A Jance:

A STIFF SHOT OF MURDER

The Arizona alcohol rehab ranch was no picnic for J. P Beaumont. First they stuck him in a room with a sleazy, teenage drug dealer named Joey Rothman. Then they sicked the local law on him when the punk was discovered shot dead with Beaumont's own .38. But the party responsible for Joey's early check-out wasn't satisfied with simply framing Beau for murder. Suddenly the Seattle detective faced a choice of fates far more unpleasant than cold turkey: a long stay in the State cooler ... or an even longer one beneath the cold, cold ground.

This is #8 in A J P Beaumont Mystery.