Synopses & Reviews
Lieutenant Jacqueline (Jack) Daniels, the insomniac Chicago cop with a train wreck of a personal life, has trouble on her hands, and it isn???t just because her boyfriend, Latham, wants to get married and she??'s not sure she??'s ready. A man in disguise has been visiting restaurants, grocery stores, and fast food places, ingeniously spreading a deadly toxin. Chicago??'s newest criminal calls himself The Chemist, and he has murder on his mind. When Jack finds Latham unconscious on the floor of their apartment with toxin-laced takeout on the counter, it looks like someone has plans for her. Toxic plans. Add to that her dead father who actually isn???t dead, her favorite partner, Herb Benedict, contemplating a transfer, and a plot to poison all the cops in Chicago, and Jack is in for a scary-as-hell ride. Dirty Martini is clever, suspenseful, and laugh-out-loud funny???J.A. Konrath at his best.
Synopsis
The latest "entertaining," "tangy," and "hilarious" Jack Daniels mystery from Anthony, Macavity, and Gumshoe Award finalist J.A. KonrathIn 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. Can she catch him -- and decide whether to accept boyfriend Latham's surprise proposal -- without destroying both her reputation and her sanity