Brutal Season - Maryann Miller - Bog

Young Jamel Frederickson is taken down by a bullet fired by a white, rookie Dallas police officer.Jamel's crime? Being black and mentally ill.In the midst of street protests, Detectives Sarah Kingsly and Angel Johnson are thrust into the investigation of two midnight murders, while desperately clinging to the threads of their partnership that is threatening to unravel like a cheap sweater.Are the alt-right white supremacists that invaded the city with their guns and inflammatory rhetoric responsible for the shootings.Or is there more than one person out there with an agenda?Will more people get killed?Are the police safe?Maybe not. ADVANCE PRAISE FOR BRUTAL SEASON"In the compelling fourth installment of the Seasons Mystery series, Miller once again tackles difficult subjects in this absorbing, page-turning crime thriller." --Carrie Rubin, author of Fatal Rounds, a Publisher's Weekly BookLife Prize Finalist "Walk the hard streets. Walk the tough streets, the mean streets. Day or night, police officers are on the bitter edge of lives that forever hang in the balance. Maryann Miller has written a frightening and an explosive police thriller that dares you to walk the streets where death waits in the shadows of a brutal season where the sound of gunfire is as steady as a heartbeat in the night." Caleb Pirtle III author of Eulogy in Black and White: A Magnolia Bluff Mystery. PRAISE FOR THE SEASONS SERIES "Miller spins a tight tale that's a cut above the average police procedural.... Readers will want to see more of these engaging female cops." Publisher's Weekly. "Detectives Sarah Kingsly and Angel Johnson are crisply drawn characters. The hard-edged story of racial tension in Dallas could be drawn from today's headlines. Open Season is a smart, spirited page-turner." Bruce Cook Tommy Gun Tango STARRED Publishers Weekly Review ". . . gripping second mystery featuring Dallas, Tex., police detectives Sarah Kingsly and Angel Johnson . . . The relationship between the women is just as absorbing as the search for the killer. Few readers will anticipate the closing twist."