She knows she’s looking for a serial killer that’s preying on tourists. When the gruesome murder of a college student-a river rat-sends the FBI agent to Timber Falls, Carter has no idea what she’s about to find there. After a month of training, she is sent out on her own without a team or a partner. Now she owns the Timber Falls Bar and Grill, drawn back to the picturesque village seven years ago after the tragic death of her wife.Ĭarter, a disgraced LAPD detective, was offered an out-a position on a team of unorthodox FBI agents. Haley Martin used to be what the locals called a “river rat”, back during the days of her college years. The isolated, sleepy little village of Timber Falls-built on the bend of a swift mountain river-swells during the summer months as tourists flock to town to run the river, lured there by the Class V rapids. With the help of an FBI hacker, her partner Casey O’Connor, and her wife Sam Kennedy, Hunter may finally get the revenge she’s been searching for. And when the gun that proves to be the murder weapon in the brutal murder of Tori’s family some thirty-something years earlier is found, Tori is not only facing her past, but a massive conflict of interest.īooted from the case, Tori finds herself going it alone, searching for answers about the long-ago murder of her family. But the hundreds of photos of Detective Tori Hunter found at the scene seem to say otherwise. Figuring it out is a pointless exercise, she tells herself, because that kind of lightning can't possibly strike twice.When a seventy-one-year-old man is shot dead in his home, it seems like a random act of

Leslie would be happy if the questions stopped there, but she's also wondering why she'd rather spend time with these women-specifically Casey-than with her fiancé.Ĭasey would also like to stick to business, but as the case intensifies she finds herself also watching Tori and Sam and wondering how they balance their public personas and private passions. The investigation raises a lot of questions around the killer's means and opportunities. Professional duty trumps personal issues as the detectives focus on their latest case, a killer whose choice of victim is solitary women.

Now Leslie Turner is going to slow down the process. It's been hard enough to transition from working with live victims to dead ones. Casey O'Connor isn't thrilled to learn that she has a new partner on the way.

Tori Hunter always worked solo, but in Samantha Kennedy she found a partner, in more ways than one.

Partners by Gerri Hill