Open Season – considered by some readers as “Lethal Weapon” set in Dallas with female leads – introduces two women homicide detectives, Sarah Kingsly and Angel Johnson. Amid racial tensions and the deadly-force controversy sweeping the city, they are unlikely and unwilling partners.

The pairing is better PR than policy.

The Dallas Review Board wants Sarah’s badge after she shot a young black boy when an undercover drug operation went south, and her partner was killed. Angel is under pressure from her family to refuse to work with “this white, honkey bitch.”

Their first case, dubbed the Mall Murders, begins with the death of a maintenance worker at an upscale shopping mall, followed closely by the murder of a security guard 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 Galleria Mall.

In this police procedural mystery, the women follow the trail of a killer until it comes close to home, and they have to decide if they can be partners or not.