Bloody Mary
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Average rating3.7
THE TWIST YOU WON'T SEE COMING...
Start with a tough but vulnerable Chicago cop. Add a hyperactive cat, an ailing mother, a jealous boyfriend, a high-maintenance ex-husband, and a partner in the throes of a mid-life crisis.
Stir in a psychopath littering the city with body parts. Mix with equal parts humor and suspense, and enjoy Bloody Mary--the second novel in the funny, frightening world of Lieutenant Jacqueline "Jack" Daniels.
Join Jack as she struggles to repair her train wreck of a personal life while tracking down and convicting one of the scariest serial killers in recent memory.
Crossovers - Features Jack Daniels, Harry McGlade, and includes characters from the Konrath Dark Thriller Collective, the Codename: Chandler series, and the Timecaster series.
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21 primary books23 released booksJack Daniels Thrillers
Jack Daniels Thrillers is a 23-book series with 21 primary works first released in 2004 with contributions by J.A. Konrath, Blake Crouch, and Jack Kilborn.
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What a great mix–funny, gruesome, drama and a touch of pathos. The murderer at the center of this novel is one of the creepiest I've run across, and it's best not to visualize the crimes in too much detail. But thankfully, there are some laugh-out-loud lines and visuals to counterbalance the grisliness.
Overall, I think the police work, and the interplay between Jack and the other police was superior in the first novel; and some of the legal maneuvering was a little too slick–but the strengths of the novel far outweighed the weaknesses. This one'll be parked out in my subconscious for quite a while.
Pretty good read. A bit more unsettling (for someone who doesn't read anything really gorey) at points but the scenes with Mr. Friskers completely made up for all of that.
