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Book: Shaken (Jack Daniels Mystery #7)
Author: J.A. Konrath
ASIN: B003M69XAM / ISBN: 9781935597216
Pages: 310
Shaken is essentially a story that jumps back and forth
in the time, so I’ll review it in three parts… Then (Twenty One Years Ago), Then
(Three Years Ago) and Now…
Then (Twenty One Years Ago).
When a young Chicago police officer Jacqueline Streng
chases after a deviant soliciting hookers and catches up with him in a
dumpster, she finds a gruesome discovery… The dismembered remains of an escort.
Recruited by a Homicide detective named Herb Benedict, Jacqueline goes
undercover as a high class escort to hunt the killer. At the same time trying
to decide her future, if she really loved her boyfriend Alan Daniels, and
considering his proposal.
Then (Three Years Ago).
Chicago police Lieutenant Jacqueline "Jack"
Daniels and her partner Herb Benedict are hot on the trail of a suspect they
believe is the worst mass serial killer they’ve ever heard of, the elusive Mr.
K. With well over a hundred named on his body-count, they really don’t want to
let him get away. But their suspect is ready for them and sends them on the
hunt for boy who will be gone in 24 hours. But in 24 hours their suspect will
be leaving for a country that doesn’t have any extradition laws.
Now.
Former Chicago police Lieutenant Jacqueline
"Jack" Daniels has been kidnapped. Her boyfriend, her “brother” and
her former partner must race the clock to find her before the infamous Mr. K
has his way with her. Using every skill and contact the three of them have
leads them to a case from twenty one years earlier and a case from three years
earlier. But there’s another force out there that wants Jack for himself… Who
will reach her first? And will she survive the race?
Rating: 4 out of 5 Stiff Drinks. Okay, so at the start I
found the book to be a bit distracting, each chapter was set in a different
time to the previous, and that caused a little bit of disjointedness. However
once the story picked up speed the scene changes became smoother and easier to
take. I think of all the Jack Daniels Mysteries, this was the most shocking for
me, add in Jack’s revelation and then the author’s revelation at the end that
the next book, Stirred, will be the end of the Jack Daniels Mysteries, it was
quite a lot to take in…
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