I really don’t care, one way or the other. Unless you’re asking my permission to read the letter, to which I’ll politely answer no.†“Dad is alive?†Mom sighed, as if I was such a disappointment she couldn’t bear it.
Did you read it? Of course you did, or you wouldn’t be calling. The other one, with my name written on it.†My mother paused. Though I did date this one gentleman who took me to a peep show once —†“Not that letter, Mom. I find the written word much more erotic than pornographic movies. So I exchanged a few dirty letters with a few men. “Mom, I was cleaning up in your room, and I found the letter.†“Oh, don’t be upset. Her letter to Jack telling her by the way, her father is really alive and kicking is killer. Mary, Jack's mum, is out of town - so she's not onscreen. Which would be fine except it means Herb basically isn't present in this book. Jack and Herb are on rocky ground - Herb's being torn between his wife and the job - so he decides to move to robbery and that puts him on the outs with Jack. That said, the romance wasn't the only thing that let the first two thirds down. But, Konrath does know how to write a great crime thriller - even when the characters are stupid. If the plot wasn't so engaging I may have decided not to continue with the series. I was actively hating Jack for the first two thirds of the book. She kept going on about loving Latham and him being her fiance and it made me mad and uncomfortable to see her betrayal - regardless of how she has her epiphany of how she's sabotaging her relationship due to her own insecurities. The romance between Jack and Rick was an unnecessary complication that added nothing and did more harm that good. This book wasn't without it's problems and most of those centered around the romance. Can she catch him - and decide whether to accept boyfriend Latham's surprise proposal - without destroying both her reputation and her sanity?"-Publisher's web site. In Dirty Martini, Jack faces her toughest adversary yet: a sicko who wants to murder an entire city. The Chemist has something big planned - something really big - and Jack has to push herself to the limits of her capabilities, or else everyone she knows and everything she holds dear will be destroyed. But how do you catch someone who is always in disguise, who ingeniously spreads toxins in restaurants, grocery stores, and fast-food places without leaving any clues? Time is running out. And a brilliant sociopath known as the Chemist is poisoning Chicago's food supply, killing hundreds of people. Her dead father may not be dead after all.
Her partner wants to transfer to another department.
"Homicide Lieutenant Jacqueline "Jack" Daniels is in some serious trouble.
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