Shoot 'em Up

by Janey Mack

Overview

The mob's running guns-and her family's running wild.

Meter maid turned undercover cop Maisie McGrane managed to survive her first sting operation with just a few minor stab wounds-and some lingering emotional scars. An assassination attempt on the mayor brings the ATF and DEA to Chicago, and they're counting on Maisie's underworld connections to help them infiltrate and cripple a cartel running guns and drugs into the city. But she won't be going it alone. The DEA's hand-selected charismatic hard-case Lee Sharpe as her partner and protector. And he's taking his assignment seriously . . . in every way. But with her meddling Chicago PD family threatening to expose her true identity at any moment, Maisie will have to scramble to stay one step ahead of them, the cartel, and her new partner before her cover is shot.

Praise for Time's Up

"Mack's outstanding debut conjures equal parts Janet Evanovich and Michael Harvey... A fast and furious plot that expertly balances menace and laugh-out-loud hijinks." -Publishers Weekly, Starred Review

"Mystery buffs will not only be swept up in the ingenious and well-crafted plot but will love the irrepressible Maisie." -Library Journal, Starred Review

Product Details

ISBN-13:	9781617736940
Publisher:	Kensington
Publication date:	09/27/2016
Series:	A Maisie McGrane Mystery Series , #3
Pages:	352
Product dimensions:	5.50(w) x 8.20(h) x 1.00(d)

About the Author

Janey Mack grew up always wanting to be a cop but her dad wouldn’t let her, so she did the next best thing and created Maisie McGrane, who gets to do everything she can’t. She lives with her husband and children in Scottsdale, Arizona, within driving distance of her brothers. Please visit her at janeymack.com.

Editorial Reviews

2016-06-30
A scrappy Chicago cop seeks her own personal justice when her brother is shot.Coming from a family of five older brothers is tough enough, but Maisie McGrane’s family is all Irish cops and lawyers in the tough streets of Chicago. Not only do they give her a hard time, but they’re also determined to keep her safe, which could be worse. One example? Maisie’s Da got her kicked out of the police academy, which should have crushed her dreams of being a cop like him. Not a girl to let something like that keep her down, Maisie talked her way into working deep undercover (she can't even tell her family) as the beard of mob boss Stannislav Renko (Choked Up, 2015). Now that Renko’s been smuggled to Serbia by Maisie’s actual boyfriend, Hank Bannon, Maisie’s on to her next assignment, as soon as she recovers from the injuries of her first. Though Maisie should be focusing on developing her latest cover, she’s distracted by the shooting of her brother, Cash. Vowing to get justice for him, she delves further into the convoluted drug scheme run by Violetta Veteratti. Is Maisie in over her head? She wishes she had Hank’s calm voice to talk her through what’s happening—readers could probably use an outside voice to clarify the narrative too—but Hank’s gone AWOL. Instead, Maisie’s got to deal with fast-talking Lee Sharpe, a colleague determined to insert himself into her latest assignment, even though his motivation is more about being near Maisie than anything else. Without more information about the book's context, the heroine’s full personality doesn’t shine; readers will have to focus more than they should on trying to piece together her back story.

Kirkus Reviews