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Whiskey Sour: A Jack Daniels Mystery (A Jacqueline "Jack" Daniels Mystery)

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Whiskey Sour: A Jack Daniels Mystery (A Jacqueline "Jack" Daniels Mystery)
J. A. Konrath , and J.A. Konrath
Manufacturer: Hyperion
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Binding: Mass Market Paperback

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Book Description

ieutenant Jacqueline 'Jack' Daniels is having a bad week. Her live-in boyfriend has left her for his personal trainer, chronic insomnia has caused her to max out her credit cards with late-night home shopping purchases, and a frightening killer who calls himself 'The Gingerbread Man' is dumping mutilated bodies in her district. Between avoiding the FBI and its moronic profiling computer, joining a dating service, mixing it up with street thugs, and parrying the advances of an uncouth PI, Jack and her binge-eating partner, Herb, must catch the maniac before he kills again....and Jack is next on his murder list. Whiskey Sour is full of laugh-out-loud humor and edge-of-your-seat suspense, and it introduces a fun, fully drawn heroine in the grand tradition of Kinsey Millhone, Stephanie Plum, and Kay Scarpetta.

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Lieutenant Jacqueline Daniels, or Jack, as she's known, has just broken up with her boyfriend and is having one of her bouts of insomnia, so she's not in the best of moods anyway. Then a frightening serial killer who calls himself the Gingerbread Man starts murdering women all over Chicago and dumping their violated bodies in garbage cans. With her binge-eating partner Herb, Jack begins to piece together the mystery of the maniac who's terrorizing the entire city. Unfortunately the FBI (or Feebs) send two officers who look like the Bobbsey Twins, and who have inordinate faith in their profiling computer.

WHISKEY SOUR is full of hilarious moments in Jack Daniels' life, mingled with incredibly suspenseful scenes as she gets closer to discovering the killer— but not before he threatens her own life as well.

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Gimme a Shot!.......2007-06-12

Whiskey Sour is labeled "Mystery" but if it's a mystery it's the kind that rings your doorbell then punches you in the face, points and laughs rather than plays peek-a-boo with you. From the moment I finally found it I hoped it was going to be different. It does have a florescent cover after all.

Whiskey Sour is the first Jack Daniels mystery. Veteran police detective Jacqueline "Jack" Daniels is not only lead investigator in a nasty serial killer case she's also been singled out by the Gingerbread Man as an adversary worthy of "special treatment".

I was unsure for quite a ways into it. My trepidation and the things I liked were pretty much in balance. The tone to the writing is different than a lot of the stories I've read lately. Instead of the book wrapping itself around the reader it plays more like a private drama acted out before them. The action itself is the atmosphere.

I'm not sure about Jack herself. I did like that the main character was troubled, older and experienced. No young upstarts here. But Jack is neither a character I'd be able to enjoy a coffee date with nor one I'd want to dive into the story to help out. I don't despise her by any means, but honestly I didn't find a lot of sympathy for her either until after I knew what had happened between her and Harry. It took a while for her to show more emotion than just a cop. She's not, in the end, an "I need sympathy" character.

Konrath also uses a writing tool that I am terribly skeptical about. Interspersed in the story from Jack's point of view are chapters from the bad guy's point of view. Normally I don't like this mechanic. I generally don't like as a reader (or as a writer like my readers), to know anything that the character doesn't. But Konrath uses the technique well, putting the villain's sections in present tense third person and Jack's parts in first person past tense. This method absolutely would not have worked for me if the Gingerbread Man wasn't such a proactive killer. If I didn't know what he had done, specifically to attack Jack, then spend two chapters waiting for Jack to find her little presents, then I definitely would have been turned off.

But like I said, this mystery isn't content to just sit back and slowly unfurl. It sits around a bit, gets bored, then jumps up and hits you with a baseball bat.

I'm still not sure if Konrath's style works for me. He doesn't pull his punches, he doesn't hesitate or blur the shot. That does work for me. Whether I like the series as a whole or not I'm hooked for another book. Hopefully this time Harry gets what's coming to him. This book rates a buy it for sheer balls.

Great Series Kick-off.......2007-05-31

How lucky was I to find this first novel for cheap! Jack Daniels is the ultimate cop heroine. She's a 45-year-old, brown-eyed, brunette Chicago cop, a violent crimes lieutenant. Jack is short for Jacqueline, and she acquired the Daniels by a now-defunct marriage. When the story begins, she has a live-in boyfriend, but he deserts her almost immediately for a lack of attention. Jack lives for her job, and now she's caught a new case with a dangerous, sadistic killer. His first two victims were found in convenience store garbage cans, their bodies mutilated. The killer calls himself the Gingerbread Man, and he seems to have developed a fixation on Jack, intending to make her one of his victims.

Jack embodies my favorite traits from Kinsey Millhone, VI Warshawski, and Eve Dallas. She's a tough broad with a feminine side, joining a dating service when she realizes she doesn't miss her boyfriend so much as a warm body. Her partner, Herb Benedict, eats constantly, while Jack knocks back countless cups of coffee. They have a witty repartee going between them, as well as Jack's wry observations of the world at large, adding up to a number of chuckles throughout the book. The villain, the Gingerbread Man, is a creepy, sociopathic killer with some sick plans. When Jack sees the depth of his sickness, she's determined to stop him, no matter the cost. This is a tense thriller that also managed to make me laugh. I found not one thing not to like about Jack. She's unpretentious, upstanding without being a goody two-shoes, and just plain funny. I will definitely read more Jack Daniels mysteries.

Perfect!.......2007-05-31

My husband found me this book based solely off the fact that Whiskey Sours are my favorite drink, and like the heroine, I used to drive an 86 Nova in Chicago.

When I read a few pages it hit me that as a devoted Janet Evanovich fan I thought I'd like the book.

I loved it!

Lt. "Jack" Daniels is hard boiled sarcatsic 46 year old woman married to her job. She is called to the scene where a body has been dumped outside a 7-11 and then comes home to find her boyfriend has left her for her personal trainer, theoretically a woman.

Jack is partnered with Herb, a binge eating detective first grade, and dogged by two FBI agents who play like Gracie to her George and give Jack perfect set-ups for snarky jokes.

Insterspersed with her insomniatic narrative are chapters told in seond-person present-tense narrative following the killer who calls himself the Gingerbread Man.

He kills again and, impressed by Jack, becomes infatuated with her.

Thus begins a realistic game of cat and mouse that has the FBI believeing the killer is a French-Canadian Hunchbacked Mountie, and has Jack chasing down leads with grimy private detectives and dead doctors in the suburbs.

It builds well, has some really gory parts, and when you discover how the killer is selecting his victims you'll howl with laughter. I know that sounds strange now, but trust me.

My only 2 complaints are 1) that what links the victims was something I would assume would come up when speaking with family and friends and 2) she keeps refering to the smog in Chicago. Chicago has little smog, and the reason you can't see the stars at night is because of the light pollution, not smog.

Still the killer is smart, depraved, and a fearsome opponent for the wisecracking, tired, udnerfed Lt. Jack. The plot moves quickly, there's lots of action, even an infomercial spending spree.

Somewhere between Janet Evanovich and Elmore Leonard lives JA Konrath; do not miss this series!

Entertainment Value Only.......2007-05-01

a lot of holes in the police procedural stuff, but an entertaining read for the beach crowd...interesting characters

Jack Rocks.......2006-11-24

I ordered these (3) books by J. A. Konrath because they tickled my fancy in the introduction and I thought they'd be a hoot----and they were. The main character, Jacqueline Daniels, is well developed, interesting and funny; you just want to find out what happens next to the sassy but slightly defective detective. Anyone with a funnybone will enjoy these books. I look forward to the next in the series.

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