Toledo police detective Audrey Vorkink is good at her job and proud of it. No matter what the obstacle—sleep deprivation, single parent worries, stealth Lego attacks—she bulls her way through it with a combination of snark, logic, and sheer stubbornness. Perhaps that’s why she’s been selected to train the department’s newest rookie, a guy by the name of Brad Hardwicke. Their first case will take them completely by surprise. After all, no one really believes that missing people are abducted by aliens. No one sane, anyway. Police procedurals get weird in this Illegal Alien series prequel novella by Carrie Harris.

Toledo police detective Audrey Vorkink has a rep for getting things done. She might look like a middle-aged soccer mom (complete with bobbed hair), but she works hard and unwinds even harder. One night, as she’s meeting with her edgier-than-it-sounds knitting group, a hit-and-run accident turns deadly right outside the building. But something’s fishy about the missing driver, something positively…inhuman. Audrey can run down any criminal, but what if this one’s from another planet? Can she bring the bad guy to justice? Is she going insane? Will she ever manage to get a decent haircut? Find out in this snarky police thriller meets extraterrestrials (maybe) by Carrie Harris, author of BAD TASTE IN BOYS and DEMON DERBY.

Detective Audrey Vorkink has faced down aliens and lived—at least, she thinks she has. After months without seeing a single UFO or little green man, she’s starting to doubt her sanity. But when an unidentifiable, possibly explosive device is found on the grounds of the Toledo Air Show, she finds herself at the center of a mystery involving dead bodies in sewers, suspicious informants, and the appearance of the infamous Men in Black. Car chases are one thing, but what sane person chases UFOs? If anyone—including her suspicious new partner—finds out what she's up to, Audrey could lose more than her job. The second book of the ILLEGAL ALIEN series by Carrie Harris is a snarky police thriller with bonus aliens.