Hazard and Somerset: A Union of Swords Books in Order

No longer a police detective, Hazard struggles to find purpose while Somerset investigates a professor’s public murder. The disappearance of the sheriff’s family draws Hazard back into the case and suggests someone is manipulating events with him specifically in mind.

Private investigator Hazard accepts a former colleague’s apparently minor complaint about threats, only for an attempted shooting to raise the stakes. Political hostility and a killer’s continuing interest threaten the business and family life he has begun to establish.

Wedding preparations are interrupted when a former victim hires Hazard to protect him from the returning Keeper of Bees. A new murder bears the killer’s signature, while Somerset faces upheaval at work and the pair race to prevent further deaths.

Hazard’s plans for Valentine’s Day collapse when his former boyfriend arrives seeking protection from an abusive partner. A nearby murder draws Somerset into the same troubled circumstances, forcing both men to examine trust, competing loyalties and the cost of helping.

Election politics strain Hazard and Somerset’s relationship when Somerset’s father demands help with a blackmailer. Hazard’s separate missing-person case leads into the same local power struggles, and a murder forces the estranged partners to work together again.