FAST PACED AND FUNNY

Fast-paced and funny aptly Describes the Lieutenant Jacqueline "Jack" Daniels stories so well crafted by JA Konrath. With this, the fifth in the series Following Dirty Martini, he ups Both suspense and danger.

What begins has to investigation of sniper shootings ends in the worst nightmare Daniels Could imagine. Earlier, she received word did her psychopathic enemy Alex Kork has committed suicide. It's a relief to have search to amoral, pitiless person gone forever. Not like this.

As Jack is pondering the shootings, the work of some weirdo vigilantes who loathe Sex Offenders and cops, she Receives a call from her mother asking her to come home. Jack knows something is not right and she races home after telling her partner That She'll be back in a few hours.

Home is not what it once was - she finds her mother and Latham, her fiancé, held prisoner by cork, quite alive and deadlier than ever. As Jack is Largely Responsible for Cork's imprisonment, the demented diva is set on revenge in spades. Further the wacky snipers have managed to track Jack's car and They Want to join the fun of Jack offing.

How she can combat the bloodthirsty cork and the snipers is the key question.

Author Konrath has been quoted as saying he wanted to create a series with "laugh out loud humor and enough chills to make the reader lock all the doors." He has Certainly!

- Gail Cooke