New Katla KillFile on its way: Aconite Attack

Despite battling my kidney stones, I’ve been working on a new Katla KillFile called Aconite Attack:

Assassin Katla finds a devious way to get a target to poison himself…

The Aconite Attack KillFile follows Katla Sieltjes, freelance assassin and corporate troubleshooter, as she gets herself hired by the CEO of a modelling agency to permanently remove his playboy partner, who is quickly draining the firm’s resources on his downward spiral into self-destruction. Katla finds a way to administer a poison to the target, but he has to be isolated for her plan to succeed. But every plan has a fluke factor, and Katla soon finds herself in a struggle for life and death when the target reveals his darker side…

The Katla KillFile short stories chronologically precede the novels in the Amsterdam Assassin Series.

Each KillFile features Katla Sieltjes, expert in disguising homicide, executing one of her contracts. While not mandatory reading, each KillFile provides insight both in Katla’s work methods and skill, and additional background information in her character and personal history. The KillFiles can be read out of order, as the contracts are random samples from Katla’s past.

This e-book features a glossary.

First peek at the cover:

Pre-publication snippet:

Katla put away her lock picks and took the oxygen tank from her bag. She covered her face with the biohazard mask before she entered the target’s apartment and closed the door behind her.

Although she had waited a good half hour after Gerard Snuif left, she took no chances and made a slow circuit through the target’s opulent bachelor pad to make sure she was alone before she went into the kitchen and took down the cereal box from the cabinet.

She lifted the plastic bag with cereal from the box and placed the bag on a scale. 114 grammes. So Snuif had eaten more than half the bag, unaware of the source of his complaints.

Probably figured nobody would mess with his cereal.

Katla smiled behind the biohazard mask and took a fresh carton of cereal from her bag. She removed the sealed bag with untainted cereal, measured against the used bag and tore off a corner. She poured 136 grammes of cereal into a bowl and weighed the bag to make sure it contained the exact same amount as the used bag.

Although it was unlikely that Snuif would know exactly how much cereal he had left, she preferred to be meticulous when dealing with poison.

She placed the fresh bag in the used carton and placed the cereal back in the kitchen cabinet. The used bag with the poisoned cereal went into a ziplock bag. She added the 136 grams of untainted cereal and put the bag in the carton in her bag.

Ready.

Leaving the oxygen mask on until she was near the door, Katla went out the same way she came in and used her picks to lock the door behind her.

Now, all she had to hope for was for his partner to be susceptible to her offer. If he didn’t take the bait, all her work had been for nothing.

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