Partners [Paperback]

Gerri Hill (Author)

Book Description

Publication Date: December 2, 2008

Tori Hunter always worked solo, but in Samantha Kennedy she found a partner, in more ways than one. Casey O'Connor isn't thrilled to learn that she has a new partner on the way. It's been hard enough to transition from working with live victims to dead ones. Now Leslie Turner is going to slow down the process.

Professional duty trumps personal issues as the detectives focus on their latest case, a killer whose choice of victim is solitary women. The investigation raises a lot of questions around the killer's means and opportunities. 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 fiance.

Casey 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. Figuring it out is a pointless exercise, she tells herself, because that kind of lightning can't possibly strike twice.

Partners concludes the series that began with the chart-topping bestseller Hunter's Way, and continued with the Lambda Literary and Golden Crown finalist In the Name of the Father -- with the sizzling intensity that only Gerri Hill can deliver.

Product Details

• Paperback: 201 pages
• Publisher: Bella Books (December 2, 2008)
• Language: English
• ISBN-10: 1594931305
• ISBN-13: 978-1594931307
• Product Dimensions: 8 x 5.3 x 0.6 inches
• Shipping Weight: 7.2 ounces (View shipping rates and policies)
• Average Customer Review: 3.1 out of 5 stars  See all reviews (14 customer reviews)
• Amazon Best Sellers Rank: #119,475 in Books (See Top 100 in Books)

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12 of 14 people found the following review helpful:

2.0 out of 5 stars more of the same & a boring mystery, January 2, 2009

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Eleanor Candor "gaygeebee" - See all my reviews

This review is from: Partners (Paperback)

the romance is this book is according to a pattern which readers of gerri hill have by now come to be familiar with. they start out as friends, cannot help but fall in love, try to deny it first but cannot help the gravity of their feelings. been there, read that. as if in compensation, the love scenes are quite hot.
what really killed me was the mystery, however. it was just boring, boring, boring. and to end the book with a cliff-hanger, that seemed to be quite lazy.

5 of 5 people found the following review helpful:

4.0 out of 5 stars Hunter's Way with different characters, February 3, 2009

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Sarah (Pennsylvania) - See all my reviews

This review is from: Partners (Paperback)

Many people have given this book a bad review because they feel that it's basically Hunter's Way but with two new characters, however aren't most of her novels like this? Like one reviewer basically stated, two women meet (usually one out and the other either in the closet or questions their sexuality once meeting the other woman). Both are unable to be together for one reason or another but in the end things work out in their favor. The only difference are the events leading up to the ending. Either way Gerri Hill is one of my favorite authors even though everyone knows how her novels will end (at least when it comes to the love story.

That being said, this novel wasnt as good as Hunter's Way but was still a good read. The ending, that some people are complaining about, is a bit upsetting however Gerri Hill has posted something on her website in response to some people's questions. [...]

3 of 3 people found the following review helpful:

5.0 out of 5 stars Super fun read, June 7, 2009

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E. B. MULLIGAN "Bronwyn" (Tampa, Florida) - See all my reviews
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This review is from: Partners (Paperback)

As a third story involving Tori Hunter of the Dallas, Texas police force you don't have to read the other two novels (Hunter's Way or In the Name of the Father) to enjoy this book.

The story opens up with the murder of a college student. The only suspect Casey, Tori and John have is a report of a peeping tom. Casey is new on the squad transferring over from the Special Victims Unit. She is teamed with Lesley who has transferred over from another unit herself.

Thirty-three year old Casey is upbeat, fun to be with, smart, enthusiastic and currently single. Her best friends are Tori and Sam. An outcast from her family, she tries not to be bitter.
Lesley is the same age as Casey but they have little in common, but perhaps opposites will attract after all. Lesley has been engaged to Michael for two years with no wedding date set. Michael enjoys spending all his free time with his buddies. Lesley has never emotionally or physically connected with Michael and is just beginning to question why they are together. She isn't close to either of her parents, neither seeming to have any interest in their daughter after divorcing when she was in high school.

Could Lesley and Casey possibly make a go of it?

What about the murder investigation? Will it turnout to be connected to the homeless shelter? Will the peeping Tom aptly named John Doe know anything about it? How will the murder be brought to justice?