num_pages: 422
description: For the first time in a long while Emery Hazards life is good. His new business as a private detective is taking off. Things are good at home. He loves his boyfriend John-Henry Somerset; he loves their daughter. He might even love the new friends theyve found. Theres only one problem: Somers has been talking about marriage.When a former colleague Walter Hoffmeister comes to Hazard and hires him to look into a series of anonymous death threats Hazard eagerly jumps on the distraction. Hoffmeister might be a jerk but hes a paying jerk and Hazard isnt convinced the threats are serious.Until that is Hoffmeister is almost gunned down on Hazards doorstep. As Hazard investigates more deeply he learns that more than one person in Wahredua has a reason to wish Hoffmeister dead. His search takes him to the Ozark Volunteers reincarnated as the Bright Lights movement but it also leads him into a sanctuary of radical Christianity. Meanwhile an antifa activist has arrived in town calling for Hoffmeisters death and threatening total war with the Bright Lights.As Hazard continues to look for answers he becomes a target tooand not just because hes helping Hoffmeister. The Keeper of Bees is still at large and the killer hasnt lost interest in Emery Hazard. Not yet. Not Hazard begins to suspect until the Keeper has taken everything Hazard holds dear.
language: English
title: Police Brutality
publisher: Hodgkin and Blount