"I couldn't put this book down! It's great!"

What a fabulous book! I devoured it in 2 days. I found it so hard to put it down.

Lieutenant Jack Daniels is up against a very hard case. She and her partner Detective Herb Benedict are trying to find the Gingerbread Man before he kills again. The women are dumped in garbage cans outside of 7-11s after they have been tortured. First they have to figure out the connection between the two women.

Then some candy is found in Daniels' car. Benedict eats some. He ends up needing stitches due to the blades embedded in the candy. Who in the world would leave her a bag of candy with so many sharp items in the candy?

Since she has no boyfriend right now, she decides to take Benedicts advise and call Lunch Mates, a dating service. She has her first date arranged in no time.

She meets with Harry McGlade, her old partner. There is a lot of bad history between them. But, she his name keeps coming up in this investigation. How is he involved? Was he just a PI hired?

She also runs into Phineas Trout, someone she arrested before, and begins playing pool with him in the evening.

It becomes even more personal for Daniels. She has some close calls with the Gingerbread Man, but he always gets away.

Normally I don't read books where some chapters are written from the killer's perspective, but this was done so well. You know what is happening to these women, but it doesn't have to be spelled out in gory details.

Lieutenant Daniels is a great character. As with most protagonists, she has a lot of baggage to work through while doing her job. This is expertly weaved into the story. Her partner is a real asset to the story as well and brings a different perspective to everything.

I highly recommend this book and eagerly look forward to the next in this new series.

Reviewed by Dawn Dowdle
Posted May 18, 2004

Summary

Lieutenant 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.