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  • Reasonable Doubt

  • Hazard and Somerset, Book 5
  • By: Gregory Ashe
  • Narrated by: Tristan James
  • Length: 12 hrs and 41 mins
  • 4.6 out of 5 stars (10 ratings)

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Reasonable Doubt

By: Gregory Ashe
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After almost 20 years, Emery Hazard finally has the man he loves. But things with his boyfriend and fellow detective, John-Henry Somerset, are never easy, and they’ve been more complicated lately for two reasons: Somers’s ex-wife and daughter. No matter what Hazard does, he can’t seem to get away from the most important women in his boyfriend’s life.

While Hazard struggles with his new reality (changing dirty diapers, just to start), a bizarre murder offers a distraction. John Oscar Walden, the leader of a local cult, is found dead by the police, and the case falls to Hazard and Somers. The investigation takes the two detectives into the cult’s twisted relationships and the unswerving demands of power and faith.

But the deeper Hazard looks into the cult, the deeper he must look into his own past, where belief and reason have already clashed once. And as Hazard struggles to protect the most vulnerable of Walden’s victims, he uncovers a deeper, more vicious plot behind Walden’s murder, and Hazard finds himself doing what he never expected: racing to save the killer.

Only, that is, if Somers doesn’t need him to babysit.

©2018 Gregory Ashe (P)2019 Gregory Ashe

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Incredibly powerful religious murder-mystery!

Hazard and Somers tackle their most confronting case yet: a cult leader who claims to be the reincarnation of Jesus is killed and various cult members collude in cruelty, lies, and violence in an attempt to justify their beliefs and actions. When the cult leader’s body mysteriously disappears, the small town of Wahredua, MI is inundated with rabid followers and the town becomes a powderkeg. Meanwhile Hazard and Somers both suffer crises of confidence about their relationship … Could Hazard really be contemplating going back to Nico? Could Somers be drawn back to his wife and young daughter?

I’m not religious but I found this incredibly powerful, especially Hazard’s grapple with conversion therapy when he was a teen. The multiple-murder-mystery was satisfyingly complex with some twists in the tail. The cult was cynically vicious to its members in the name of religion and I thought the author canvassed both sides of the religious debate well. I was supremely frustrated with Hazard and Somers for not airing their doubts about each other, but I understand that some people hold everything in rather than air their feelings. Luckily, there’s a HFN ending. Tristan James does another great job on the audiobook.

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