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| Open Season by Maryann Miller Fictionworks - 2000 ISBN 1581243707 Reviewed by PJ Nunn A dark alley, two shots fired, two men dead. Now Sarah Kingsley is left to live with the knowledge that John isn’t coming back, and the whole city recognizes her not as the officer who defended her partner, but as the white cop who shot a black kid. Never mind that the gun in his hand killed her partner. Sarah’s back on the job in homicide, but things may never be the same again. TV news and local political factions are playing up the racial aspects to the media, until even Sarah’s fellow DPD officers aren’t sure if they can trust her. Angel Johnson is Sarah’s new partner. She’s female, she’s black and has a huge chip on her shoulder. There’s not much time for working out relationship issues, though. One man’s grizzly garroting at Northpark Mall is followed almost immediately by another. When a TV news reporter announces on the air that she’s got a message from the killer, Sarah and Angel have to put aside their differences and do everything they can to find this guy and stem the rising tide of local panic. OPEN SEASON is a complex and unusual book. It encompasses elements typical in a police procedural, but delves deeper into the emotional turmoil haunting both Sarah and Angel, making it clear that there is life behind the badge. Issues of racism are succinctly, if scantily, portrayed and resolved. The characters are developed enough to hold readers’ interest and yet leave them wanting more. OPEN SEASON is a dark ride through familiar tunnels that lead to a sober conclusion. A realistic illustration of an epidemic that cannot be resolved en masse, filtered with the hope that differences resolved one individual at a time, while difficult to measure, hold the promise of ultimate and permanent change. |
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