Status Updates From Triptych (Will Trent, #1)

The whole ordeal wore him down. Angie says goodbye to Will for the final time. He keeps his neighbors dog instead of taking her to the pound since he’s from a foster home he couldn’t take her there. Nice last sentiment. When it picked up it was thrilling, didn’t feel as long-winded as her other books which was nice. I give it a 4*

Angie kills Michael and John and Will come in time to CPR the girl. Both live. Will and his sister confront Michael’s mom and argue that they’ll stop all charges against her if she’ll release a statement to clear John’s name. She agrees reluctantly after threats of Michael’s deathbed confession. This was a slow start and then for real interesting. I wish John had more initiative but obviously jail and

John won’t talk and will gets a call. Another cop goes to mikes house, the wife asked for security while she removes stuff from the house. The cop asks a neighbor where’s Mike and said he asked about the car in his driveway and that he backed the car up into the garage, closed the trunk and drove off. There was oil on the pavement (Angie’s car) Will gets John to say mikes addy. It’s getting intense now

Angie decides to try to get John to talk before Will takes him in. He refuses and passes out then arrested. Angie sneaks into Michael’s house sees a girl tied to the pool table and is presumably shot upon entering

John’s lawyers during his trial was Michael’s mom who seemingly did a deathbed confession to his own mom when she died. Will confronts Angie regarding John’s rap sheet. He wants to bring him in but she insists it’s strange that Michael never mentioned that the murders happening now have a strange similarity to the one from his teen years. She knows Mike knows John cuz he warned her about him

John meets w his sisters wife and sees all the evidence their mom had kept. his bite mark didn’t match the body, and she found an expert that thought the tongue was bitten off not severed (knife was their key evidence, expert said it was used and proved premeditation and was in his closet even tho his mom cut herself on the finger w it so it’s her blood, too small a sample) his mom worked even tho she was sick

Will visits sex workers mom. Angie goes to visit Ken (cop who has stroke and knows Michael) say she had to get reassigned cuz she was outed (doesn’t know who) and Michael warned her about John, finds out Michael was 25 when he met his 15 yo wife (he was interested in her cousins first) Finds out he lied about going fishing w Kent

🫤 feeling meh about this so far hopefully it picks up soon