Book Review: Whiskey Sour by JA Konrath (Jack Daniels #1)

Read it for a spunky, hardworking and hard hitting female protagonist and a villain who will send chills down your spine.
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I have to say at the outset that I thoroughly enjoyed this mystery as I have seen being the case with everyone of them where a female cop who is good at her job. Credit must be given to the author JA Konrath for writing a plot that has the twists and turns of a good, gripping thriller and still has the scope for character development, more like fleshing out the character, in this book.


So our heroine is named Jack Daniels, short for Jacquline Daniels is an insomniac, her boyfriend has left her for his personal trainer and in generals having a difficult time coping with life when a serial killer who calls himself the Gingerbread Man starts to leave mutilated bodies of women in dumpsters in her district. A binge eating partner, an old gangster she had busted years ago and a couple of (moronic looking and sounding) guys from the FBI form the other members of the colourful cast of Whiskey Sour.

Things do get serious when the murderer takes a fancy for Daniels and even enters her house with the intent of kidnapping her but the seriousness is well balanced by the wit and guts of our Detective Inspector.

The murders are described to a gory detail in this book as well so that can be a put off but surprisingly I did not find those details as scary as the ones in the last book (The Surgeon) that I had reviewed.

Not only is the main character written very well, the villain- The Gingerbread Man-has also been painted with a fine brush.

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