I absolutely loved the first part of Billy Summers and could have happily read more about Billy's undercover life while he waited for Joel Allen to be transported to the courthouse for his hearing so he can do the job he was hired for. After the job is done, the story seemed to change. The introduction of Alice and her storyline felt very random, and I didn't really like it. I feel like it would have been fine to just have Billy on his own, so the second half of the book really skews my overall rating. Also the handful of random references to COVID and how how characters don't know what's coming were very off-putting.