I borrowed this audiobook from the library.
Publisher: Blackstone Audio
Published: June 24, 2014 (first published 2013)
Summary:
From Karin Slaughter comes a fast and furious tale in which no one is quite who they seem. This electrifying eBook novella featuring Will Trent is a prequel to Slaughter’s upcoming novel, Unseen.
Detective Will Trent is standing in a Georgia convenience store, waiting on an obstinate Icee frozen drink machine. To the surveillance cameras and bored staff of the Lil’ Dixie Gas-n-Go, however, Will appears to be someone very different—the menacing ex-con Bill Black. Going undercover as Bill, the Georgia Bureau of Investigation agent is about to infiltrate the most corrupt town in the most corrupt county in the new American South. But first: his Icee.
Everything changes in one horrific instant, as all hell breaks loose at the Lil’ Dixie. A cop is shot. A bag of cash goes flying across the floor. A young woman disappears while a killer takes off in a battered pick-up truck. Within seconds, Will is in pursuit.
My thoughts:
This novella is part of the Will Trent series and is a nice little set-up for the next full-length novel in the series, Unseen. Of course I had to read it – I need all the Will Trent I can get! And let me just say, for a short story, Karin Slaughter certainly knows how to pack a lot in!
Poor Will just wanted an Icee on his way to his new undercover assignment. But of course, nothing goes right and he finds himself in the middle of a hold-up where nothing ends up being as it seem. This is one action-packed short story and I loved seeing Will in action.
Have I mentioned my love of this series before? It just keeps getting better and better!
Books in this series:
5.5 Snatched
- Criminal
6.5 Busted
- Unseen
- The Kept Woman
8.5 Cleaning the Gold
- The Last Widow
- The Silent Wife
- After That Night – due out Aug 2024
