Name: Partners
ISBN: 9781594931307

Gerri Hill

Detective Casey O'Connor is back, this time with new partner Leslie Tucker. They join forces with Tori Hunter to track down a killer targeting single women who live alone. But as Casey and Leslie grow closer, Leslie begins to question her sexuality.

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Megan Cooper

The third Hunter book, but Tori and Sam are relegated to secondary characters in this one. 

Casey O'Connor (introduced in In the Name of the Father) is now in the Homicide department, where all really hot lesbian detectives seemed destined to end up. She's teamed up with a new detective who transfers in from Assault (formerly a Homicide detective in Fort Worth so it doesn't seem too odd to have to new homicide detectives partnered up). The new transfer, Leslie Tucker, is straight and engaged, but already harbouring doubts about the future of her relationship with her fiance. 

So ... yes, there is a similarity in the basic romance plot to Hunter's Way. But I can name a few lesbian fiction series that feature carbon copies romances revolving around the multitude of lesbians who lie in the community. I'm not overly miffed by the similarity to Hunter's Way. The characters are different with different pasts/triggers/angst = Casey is not Hunter and Leslie isn't quite Sam (Casey is a bit better developed as she's had two books to grow in). Also, their developing relationship isn't being pushed along by bombs, druglords or other extraneous plotlines. 

I actually liked the homicide case they worked on better in this one than the first two. Hunter's Way kept throwing all kinds of extraneous situations and the murders they were supposed to be investigating kept taking a back seat to all the other drama. This book keeps the focus on 1) the burgeoning relationship and 2) a series of murders that appear to perpetrated by a Peeping Tom. 

The ending ... I'm actually going to have to get someone to verify that I didn't have a corrupted electronic version of this book as I can't fricking believe it ended the way it did. (view spoiler)[ Hill left so many loose ends, made no attempt to explain why Patrick was doing what he was doing, and (view spoiler)[ wtf is with the homicide detective thinking she sees the escaped murder's face in the window and instead of grabbing her gun and her partner to go chase his pervy ass down, she invites Casey to take a fricking shower with her?!?! The end. (hide spoiler)] <\spoiler> (hide spoiler)]

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