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Criminal Past

Hazard and Somerset, Book 6

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Criminal Past

By: Gregory Ashe
Narrated by: Tristan James
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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 Hazard’s past. Worse, Mikey seems to know something Hazard doesn’t - something about the fresh tension brewing in town.

When the Chief of Police interrupts Hazard’s day at the fair, she has a strange request. She doesn’t want Hazard and Somers to solve a murder. She wants them to prevent one. The future victim? Mayor Sherman Newton - a 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 isn’t buried very deep. Sometimes, it isn’t dead. Sometimes, it isn’t even past. And almost always, it’s better left alone.

©2018 Gregory Ashe (P)2019 Gregory Ashe
Mystery Police Procedural Fiction Romance Suspense

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A summer hazard

A fairly good story, well narrated. Glad it’s the end of the series. Crikey, with all that was going on between them it’s a wonder anything turned out ok. Very graphic violence and language. Made my head spin. Now for something easy to listen to.

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Emotional and violent yet utterly compelling!

When Hazard returned to Wahredua a year ago, one of his goals was to get justice for Jeff, Hazard’s first boyfriend who killed himself in adolescence after a violent sexual assault. As Hazard dredges up the terrible past, fresh questions arise about Jeff’s death. Meanwhile, the corrupt mayor accuses a disaffected employee of trying to kill him and when Hazard and Somers are dragooned onto his security detail, they come face-to-face with old psychopathic foes from their childhood.

This has been an amazing series. All of the Hazard & Somerset books have been compelling but this police action-thriller is the culmination of multiple ongoing storylines and it’s pretty explosive. I was thoroughly gripped by this but was repulsed by the extended violence and torture scenes - this is not for the faint-hearted! Something I commonly find with psychopath stories is their unrealistic strength, marksmanship, and combat training. Somehow, despite all their training and experience, Hazard & Somers’ continually come off second best time after time, and it got old here. US voice actor Tristan James does an excellent job on the audio.

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