num_pages: 597
description: It all starts to go wrong at the shooting gallery. Emery Hazard and his boyfriend John-Henry Somerset just want to enjoy the day at the Dore County Independence Fair. At the shooting gallery though Hazard comes face to face with one of his old bullies: Mikey Grames. Even as a drugged-out wreck Mikey is a reminder of all the ugliness in Hazards past. Worse Mikey seems to know something Hazard doesntsomething about the fresh tension brewing in town. When the Chief of Police interrupts Hazards day at the fair she has a strange request. She doesnt want Hazard and Somers to solve a murder. She wants them to prevent one. The future victim? Mayor Sherman Newtona man who has tried to have Hazard and Somers killed at least once. Hazard and Somers try to work out the motive of the man threatening Newton and the trail leads them into a conspiracy of corrupt law enforcement white supremacists and local politicians. As Hazard and Somers dig into the case their search takes them into the past where secrets have lain buried for twenty years. Determined to get to the truth Hazard finds himself racing for answers but he discovers that sometimes the past isnt buried very deep. Sometimes it isnt dead. Sometimes it isnt even past. And almost always its better left alone.
language: English
title: Criminal Past
publisher: Hodgkin and Blount