Meanwhile, an abandoned trailer home in a bad part of town catches fire.
He begins to know the adult Somers better through their work, though, and the apparent change in John-Henry confuses him. He remains unbending for most of the book. Hazard makes it clear that on the job he’ll have his partner’s back because that’s what’s expected of a good cop, but that he is not interested in listening to Somers’s apologies. And then there’s his secret attraction to Hazard, buried deep inside Somers’s psyche. Yet another reason is his guilt and his need to make amends. One of his reasons is that they’ll be working closely together, another is that Somers is the kind of person who makes friends everywhere and is not used to being disliked.
Somers is genuinely remorseful, and he wants to have a better relationship with Hazard now. He knows that what he and his two ex-friends, Mikey Grames and Hugo Perry, did to Hazard went way, way beyond shitty and horrible. John-Henry, now known to most people as Somers, has developed into someone better than the teenage bully he once was. In the meantime, he’ll try to put up with Somerset. Once these things are successfully accomplished, he’ll leave Wahredua. Hazard considers quitting on the spot but when Somerset tells him about a string of hate crimes against the Wahredua’s LGBT community, he decides to stick around long enough to solve the case and to investigate Jeff’s suicide in parallel. But when he arrives at the police station for the first day of work, he is assigned John-Henry Somerset, one of those bullies, as his partner. Hazard believes a few of his tormentors played a role in Jeff’s death and he looks forward to dealing with them. Although he has since bulked up a lot and gained expertise in self-defense / martial arts, at first his return to his hometown puts him back in the headspace of a vulnerable, abused teenage boy. Hazard barely notices he’s focused on his high school days and on Jeff’s suicide. In the interim, Wahredua has grown into a more tolerant and cultured place. He chose to return to Wahredua partly because of that and partly to look into an old open-and-shut case, the apparent suicide of his high school boyfriend, Jeff Langham. Louis police department for reasons that don’t become clear until book three in the series. He left town immediately after graduation because of it. Hazard is gay and was on the receiving end of some horrific bullying during high school. Police detective Emery Hazard has returned to Wahredua, Missouri, fifteen years after his escape to St. There’s a long free preview of this first book and by the time I reached the end of it, I wanted to buy the book. I saw your Hazard and Somers series recommended and though I don’t read many mysteries or m/m novels, something made me want to pick it up. Homophobia, rape, racism, homophobic slurs (this is an #ownvoices book and slurs are used to portray homophobic characters as well as sarcastically by a main character)
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