num_pages: 410
description: An embattled author. Fanatical parents. A son who cant stay out of trouble. Its the last one thatll probably kill him.When Emery Hazard gets drawn into a brawl at a monthly school board meeting he knows hes in trouble; his husband John-Henry Somerset is chief of police and theyre already under enough scrutiny as they try to finalize their foster sons permanency plan.Hazards actions however have an unexpected consequence: a woman shows up at his office the next day and she wants to hire him to protect her mother. Loretta Ames is a famousand famously troublesomeauthor and a string of recent attempts on her life suggests that someone is determined to get rid of her. Under pressure from his assistant Hazard takes the job assuming that it will be two days of babysitting before Loretta returns to New York.Her murder changes everything. To find the killer Hazard and Somers will enter a murky world of concerned parents entitled teenagers internet trolls and a whole lot of grassroots crazy. But nothing is straightforward about the investigation and even Lorettas daughter seems to have her own reasons to want her mother dead. And when the killer abducts Colts friend Hazard and Somers realize they are running out of time and they must race to save him before its too late.
language: English
title: Final Orders
publisher: Hodgkin and Blount