Lockdown Blues: A Tai & Trey Story

by Tina Whittle

Tai Randolph doesn’t like to be stuck inside. Not even with Trey, who can be distracting in close quarters. Not even with a fresh delivery of bourbon. And especially not with spring beckoning just outside the window of Trey's 35th floor apartment.

But when a simple favor turns into something more mysterious—and more challenging—Tai realizes that crime doesn’t stop during a quarantine…and neither does her penchant for sleuthing.

This short story sets the stage for Crooked Ways, Book #7 in the Tai Randolph & Trey Seaver series, releasing in summer 2024.

37 pages, Kindle Edition

Published January 29, 2024

About the author

Tina Whittle’s Tai Randolph/Trey Seaver series — featuring intrepid gunshop owner Tai and her corporate security agent partner Trey — has garnered starred reviews in Kirkus, Publisher’s Weekly, Booklist, and Library Journal. Published by Poisoned Pen Press, this Atlanta-based series debuted with The Dangerous Edge of Things, followed by Darker Than Any Shadow (2012), Blood, Ash and Bone (2013), Deeper Than the Grave (2015), and Reckoning and Ruin (2017). The sixth book in the series — Necessary Ends — was released in April 2018.

A Derringer finalist and two-time nominee for Georgia Author of the Year, Whittle has published her short fiction in The Savannah Literary Journal, Alfred Hitchcock’s Mystery Magazine, and Gulf Stream, which selected her story “Lost Causes and Other Reasons to Live” as the 2004 winner of their Mystery Fiction contest. When not writing or reading, she enjoys boxing, sushi, tarot reading, and spending time with her family (one husband, one daughter, and one neurotic Maltese).

Reviews

[rania · Rating 5 out of 5]

Loved it like always.
I'm so glad that the next book is coming this summer. I can hardly wait!