num_pages: 397
description: Three months have passed since Emery Hazard and John-Henry Somerset faced a madman and lived to tell about it. Three months have passed since Emery Hazard resigned from his job as a detective. Three months can be too long and too short all at the same time. On Halloween a professor at the local college is murdered in his apartment in front of dozens of witnesses. Then the killer disappears. Somers is assigned the caseand a new partner. While Somers investigates the murder Hazard struggles to find purpose in his new freedom. Despite his decision to stay away he finds himself drawn to the case. But hes no longer police and in the small town of Wahredua not all of his former colleagues are happy to see him investigating another crime. When the sheriffs son and husband go missing though the case becomes more complicated than either Hazard or Somers had expected. And soon they learn that someone else is manipulating events in Wahredua. Someone who is very interested in Emery Hazard.
language: English
title: The Rational Faculty
publisher: Hodgkin and Blount