Open Season Author:Maryann Miller Amid racial tensions and the deadly force controversy sweeping the city of Dallas, Homicide investigators, Sarah Kingsly and Angel Johnson, are unlikely and unwilling partners. — The Dallas Review Board wants Sarah's badge because she shot a young black boy when the undercover drug operation went bad and her partner was killed. The investigat... more »ors also wrestle with personal attitudes and feelings about racism and their partnership. They both see the pairing as better PR than policy and Angel's position is further complicated by her family's reaction to her working with a white woman.
Their first case, dubbed the Mall Murders, begins with the death of a maintenance worker at one of the metroplex shopping malls. A security guard is then killed at another mall. The final murder victim is a young window dresser whose body is left like a mannequin behind the glass of an exclusive boutique at the Galaxy Mall.
The women struggle to come to terms with public and personal racial unrest as they track the serial killer who has his own race card to play.« less