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基本信息·出版社：Hyperion
·页码：312 页
·出版日期：2005年05月
·ISBN：078689072X
·条形码：9780786890729
·版本：Paperback
·装帧：简装
·开本：32
·正文语种：英语
·丛书名：A Jacqueline "Jack" Daniels Mystery
·外文书名：威士忌酸味
内容简介 Product Descriptionieutenant Jacqueline 'Jack' Daniels is having a bad week. Her live-in boyfriend has left her for his personal trainer, chronic insomnia has caused her to max out her credit cards with late-night home shopping purchases, and a frightening killer who calls himself 'The Gingerbread Man' is dumping mutilated bodies in her district. Between avoiding the FBI and its moronic profiling computer, joining a dating service, mixing it up with street thugs, and parrying the advances of an uncouth PI, Jack and her binge-eating partner, Herb, must catch the maniac before he kills again....and Jack is next on his murder list. Whiskey Sour is full of laugh-out-loud humor and edge-of-your-seat suspense, and it introduces a fun, fully drawn heroine in the grand tradition of Kinsey Millhone, Stephanie Plum, and Kay Scarpetta.
Download DescriptionLieutenant Jacqueline Daniels, or Jack, as she's known, has just broken up with her boyfriend and is having one of her bouts of insomnia, so she's not in the best of moods anyway. Then a frightening serial killer who calls himself the Gingerbread Man starts murdering women all over Chicago and dumping their violated bodies in garbage cans. With her binge-eating partner Herb, Jack begins to piece together the mystery of the maniac who's terrorizing the entire city. Unfortunately the FBI (or Feebs) send two officers who look like the Bobbsey Twins, and who have inordinate faith in their profiling computer.
WHISKEY SOUR is full of hilarious moments in Jack Daniels' life, mingled with incredibly suspenseful scenes as she gets closer to discovering the killer— but not before he threatens her own life as well.
作者简介 A resident of Chicago,
J.A. Konrath has written for cable TV, performed improvisational comedy, and designed award-winning websites.
--This text refers to the Hardcover edition. 媒体推荐 From Publishers WeeklyExcept for her name-Jacqueline Daniels (and, yes, she's known by her colleagues at the Chicago Police Department and by her friends as "Jack Daniels")-there's not an original trope in this competent, fast-paced thriller by newcomer Konrath. A lieutenant investigating a particularly gruesome series of homicides, Daniels is like every other hard-boiled fictional cop-obsessed with work, afraid to commit emotionally and overcaffeinated. The other characters also follow formula: her partner is an overweight glutton with a heart of gold; her boss is tough but fair; the federal agents assigned to help her are territorial, superior and ineffectual. And the criminal himself, a serial killer who calls himself the "Gingerbread Man," only differs from others of his ilk in his methodology, not his psychology. He tortures and kills attractive young women, leaving their mutilated bodies in public places. Konrath, who has "performed improvisational comedy" according to his bio, likes to toss off one-liners, and while they're occasionally clever, they lend a jokey tone that jars with the seriousness of the almost gratuitously horrific crimes. Reading like an ill-conceived cross between Carl Hiaasen and Thomas Harris, this cliché-ridden first novel should find a wide audience among less discriminating suspense fans.
Copyright ? Reed Business Information, a division of Reed Elsevier Inc. All rights reserved. --This text refers to the Hardcover edition.
From AudioFileDual voices add considerable interest to this debut novel about a female Chicago cop's efforts to track down a serial killer while trying to develop a social life of her own. Susie Breck's take on Jacqueline "Jack" Daniels shows her determination, energy, and self-deprecating humor. Dick Hill does the twisted "Gingerbread Man"; Daniel's partner, who always has his mouth full; and the bumbling FBI agents who insist on helping. The production's conversations sound more like those of a radio play than a reading, and one gets the feeling that both actors are having fun. This is a fine series opener, with BLOODY MARY and RUSTY NAIL to follow within the year. J.B.G. ? AudioFile 2004, Portland, Maine-- Copyright ? AudioFile, Portland, Maine --This text refers to the Audio CD edition.
Andrew Vachss, author of The Getaway Man " . . . a police procedural dashed with romance, mixed with a shot of sharp-tongued commentary, and . . . an acidic sprinkling of spoof." --This text refers to the Hardcover edition.
Michael Prescott, author of Next Victim "This superb debut goes down smooth and will leave readers demanding a refill." --This text refers to the Hardcover edition.
George C. Chesbro, author of Shadow of a Broken Man "A compulsive page-turner populated by real people, a heroine, and a monstrous villain . . . " --This text refers to the Hardcover edition.
Warren Murphy, two-time Edgar award-winner for Grandmaster and Pigs Get Fat "From electric excitement to laugh-out-loud humor, this book has it all . . . " --This text refers to the Hardcover edition.
David Wiltse, author of The Hangman's Knot "A fresh, fierce and frightening new voice, and a delightful heroine . . . Jack Daniels is funny and resilient . . . feisty and determined." --This text refers to the Hardcover edition.
Robert W. Walker, author of the Instinct and Edge Series
"Whiskey Sour is on game from page one to the last . . . The future of suspense thrillers . . . is J. A. Konrath . . . " --This text refers to the Hardcover edition.
Ridley Pearson, author of The Art of Deception
" . . . Whiskey Sour a literary cocktail that'll knock you off your chair." --This text refers to the Hardcover edition.
Jay Bonansinga, author of The Sleep Police
"[Blend] Donald Westlake, James Ellroy, and Dorothy Parker, and you've got the hilarious, horrific world of Lieutenant Jacqueline 'Jack' Daniels."
专业书评 From Publishers Weekly Except for her name-Jacqueline Daniels (and, yes, she's known by her colleagues at the Chicago Police Department and by her friends as "Jack Daniels")-there's not an original trope in this competent, fast-paced thriller by newcomer Konrath. A lieutenant investigating a particularly gruesome series of homicides, Daniels is like every other hard-boiled fictional cop-obsessed with work, afraid to commit emotionally and overcaffeinated. The other characters also follow formula: her partner is an overweight glutton with a heart of gold; her boss is tough but fair; the federal agents assigned to help her are territorial, superior and ineffectual. And the criminal himself, a serial killer who calls himself the "Gingerbread Man," only differs from others of his ilk in his methodology, not his psychology. He tortures and kills attractive young women, leaving their mutilated bodies in public places. Konrath, who has "performed improvisational comedy" according to his bio, likes to toss off one-liners, and while they're occasionally clever, they lend a jokey tone that jars with the seriousness of the almost gratuitously horrific crimes. Reading like an ill-conceived cross between Carl Hiaasen and Thomas Harris, this cliché-ridden first novel should find a wide audience among less discriminating suspense fans.
Copyright © Reed Business Information, a division of Reed Elsevier Inc. All rights reserved.
--This text refers to the Hardcover edition. From AudioFile Dual voices add considerable interest to this debut novel about a female Chicago cop's efforts to track down a serial killer while trying to develop a social life of her own. Susie Breck's take on Jacqueline "Jack" Daniels shows her determination, energy, and self-deprecating humor. Dick Hill does the twisted "Gingerbread Man"; Daniel's partner, who always has his mouth full; and the bumbling FBI agents who insist on helping. The production's conversations sound more like those of a radio play than a reading, and one gets the feeling that both actors are having fun. This is a fine series opener, with BLOODY MARY and RUSTY NAIL to follow within the year. J.B.G. © AudioFile 2004, Portland, Maine--
Copyright © AudioFile, Portland, Maine --This text refers to the Audio CD edition. Andrew Vachss, author of The Getaway Man " . . . a police procedural dashed with romance, mixed with a shot of sharp-tongued commentary, and . . . an acidic sprinkling of spoof."
--This text refers to the Hardcover edition. Michael Prescott, author of Next Victim "This superb debut goes down smooth and will leave readers demanding a refill."
--This text refers to the Hardcover edition. George C. Chesbro, author of Shadow of a Broken Man "A compulsive page-turner populated by real people, a heroine, and a monstrous villain . . . "
--This text refers to the Hardcover edition. Warren Murphy, two-time Edgar award-winner for Grandmaster and Pigs Get Fat "From electric excitement to laugh-out-loud humor, this book has it all . . . "
--This text refers to the Hardcover edition. David Wiltse, author of The Hangman's Knot "A fresh, fierce and frightening new voice, and a delightful heroine . . . Jack Daniels is funny and resilient . . . feisty and determined."
--This text refers to the Hardcover edition. Robert W. Walker, author of the Instinct and Edge Series "
Whiskey Sour is on game from page one to the last . . . The future of suspense thrillers . . . is J. A. Konrath . . . "
--This text refers to the Hardcover edition. Ridley Pearson, author of The Art of Deception " . . .
Whiskey Sour a literary cocktail that'll knock you off your chair."
--This text refers to the Hardcover edition. Jay Bonansinga, author of The Sleep Police "[Blend] Donald Westlake, James Ellroy, and Dorothy Parker, and you've got the hilarious, horrific world of Lieutenant Jacqueline 'Jack' Daniels."
--This text refers to the Hardcover edition.
