Dirty Martini

by J. A. Konrath

Overview

WHAT'S WORSE THAN A SERIAL KILLER?

In Whiskey Sour, Chicago police Lieutenant Jacqueline "Jack" Daniels hunted down a killer dubbed "The Gingerbread Man."

In Bloody Mary, she busted a psychopath with a penchant for dismemberment.

In Rusty Nail, it was a serial killer with a doozy of a family tree.

And now, in Dirty Martini, Jack faces her toughest adversary yet: a sicko who's poisoning the city's food supply. But that's just the start of what he has planned, because he's aiming to kill fifty thousand people in the single biggest act of terrorism the US has ever seen. Can she stop him -- and decide whether to accept boyfriend Latham's surprise proposal -- without destroying both her reputation and her sanity?

Join Jack, her partner Herb, and her nemesis Harry McGlade, for her fourth, and greatest, case so far.

DIRTY MARTINI by J.A. Konrath
Like all parties it ends with a bang...

If you are a more sensitive (or adventurous) reader, the Konrath scale rates specific categories from 1 (lowest) to 10 (highest) to give you some idea if this is your kind of book.

DIRTY MARTINI
Bad Language - 4
Scary - 6
Violent - 3
Funny - 8
Sexy - 5
Crossovers - Contains characters from the Jack Daniels and Associates series, the Timecaster series, and the Konrath Dark Thriller Collective series.

Product Details

ISBN-13:	9781482373837
Publisher:	CreateSpace Publishing
Publication date:	02/06/2013
Series:	Jack Daniels , #4
Pages:	260
Product dimensions:	6.00(w) x 9.00(h) x 0.55(d)
Age Range:	18 Years

About the Author

JA Konrath is the author of eight novels in the Jack Daniels thriller series (Whiskey Sour, Bloody Mary, Rusty Nail, Dirty Martini, Fuzzy Navel, Cherry Bomb, Shaken, Stirred).

Jack also appears in the novels Shot of Tequila, Flee, Spree, Three, Timecaster Supersymmetry, Banana Hammock, and Serial Killers Uncut, as well as the short story collection Jack Daniels Stories and the novellas Burners and Floaters.

Konrath writes horror under the name Jack Kilborn (Afraid, Trapped, Endurance.) He's sold over a million ebooks.

Editorial Reviews

A vengeful serial killer stirs (and shakes) Jack Daniels to action. Liquor is no quicker than Lieutenant Jacqueline (Jack) Daniels whenever a beset and jittery Chicago needs a lift. Maybe that's why Jack gets the nod in the case of the wacko with the botulism dispenser. "The people of Chi-Town love you," says her boss in the face of Jack's noticeable disenchantment. "You'll be giving hope to the hopeless." So she signs on. But Jack's right to be leery. To begin with, the case bears all the marks of a career-breaker. Beyond that, the self-described Chemist is as scary a serial killer as ever followed in the footsteps of Hannibal Lecter. His ultimatum to the city fathers: $2 million, or botulism for your babies. As if threats of plague weren't enough, there are galling complexities on the home front. Latham, Jack's otherwise adorable boyfriend, has proposed matrimony at a time when Jack's hair and makeup haven't been checked for hours. In addition, Jack is working with an FBI agent so hot that although she's charged with saving Chicago from mass murder, she can't keep herself from staring at his crotch. And don't ask what's going on with her long-lost father, whose reported death may be greatly exaggerated. In the past, Konrath has done creditable work (Rusty Nail, 2006, etc.), but here the prose ranges from careless to wretched, and the plot demands a breathalyzer.

Kirkus Reviews