


Despite all this, they have developed a great working partnership and a friendship. Hazard suffered a lot and while Somerset has grown up, taken responsibility, and apologized, that past will always lie between them.

In high school Somers was one of three boys who made it their life’s mission to bully Emery Hazard, the only openly gay boy in their small hometown of Wahredua, Missouri. Police detectives Emery Hazard and John-Henry Somerset have a fraught relationship and a dark history. Unlike the first two books it did not disappoint. So when I finished those I went for book three, Paternity Case. But the romantic elements-wow! After the first book I knew I wanted to read the entire series. I gave Pretty Pretty Boys and Transposition a C+/B- and a C- respectively because the mystery plots in both didn’t work that well for me. Recently I got into your Hazard and Somerset series. Child rape, homophobia and homophobic slurs (although this is an #ownvoices book, homophobic slurs are used to portray homophobic characters as well as sarcastically by the main characters).
