Betrayed is a prequel to the Emily Tizzano series and is available upon signup to the author's newsletter. Betrayed covers the events surrounding Emily's retirement from the Chicago police department.

Once again, I have more questions than answers - not least of which is why and how was she framed? I mean sure there's some kind of answer provided but it's not remotely sufficient. Some guy who was jealous of her? Planted evidence that she was taking bribes. It sounded extremely weak. I'm just not sure if that was intentional or not. For instance could that just be a cover story dreamt up to clear Emily from the charges. I mean the envelope of cash money could be from her ex father in law, the mob boss for having gotten her fired? But I could just be reading way too much into it.

It was a short quick read and an okay introduction to the series. 2 stars. ( )