Works by
J. A. Konrath
(aka Joseph Andrew Konrath)
(Writer)
[1970 - ]

Amazon Shorts

• Four Pack of Jack
  Four short stories featuring characters from JA Konrath's Lt. Jacqueline "Jack" Daniels series. BODY SHOTS - Jack faces her worst nightmare-a hostage scenario. WHELP WANTED - Jack's ex partner, Harry McGlade, is hot on the trail of a very stupid dognapper. THE ONE THAT GOT AWAY - A prequel to Whiskey Sour, featuring the serial killer known as The Gingerbread Man. POT SHOT - Jack's partner, Herb Benedict, decides to hang up his badge.

• Six Pack Of Crime
  Six stories in the mystery/thriller genre. ON THE ROCKS - Lt. Jack Daniels (Whiskey Sour) solves a locked room mystery. STREET MUSIC - Phineas Troutt's searches Chicago for a lady of the night, but what are his intentions? URGENT REPLY NEEDED - A criminal answer to internet spam. INSPECTOR OXNARD - The stupidest cop of all time. CLEANSING - A crime story of biblical proportions. THE AGREEMENT - Noir at its bleakest… this will make you flinch.

Lt. Jacqueline Jack Daniels Series

1. Whiskey Sour (2004)
   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.

2. Bloody Mary (2005)
   Start with a tough but vulnerable Chicago cop. Add a hyperactive cat, an ailing mother, a jealous boyfriend, a high-maintenance ex-husband, and a partner in the throes of a mid-life crisis.

3. Rusty Nail (2006)
   Lt. Jacqueline "Jack" Daniels of the Chicago Police Department is back, and once again she's up to her Armani in murder. Someone is sending Jack snuff videos. The victims are people she knows, and they share a common trait -- each was involved in one of Jack's previous cases. With her stalwart partner hospitalized and unable to help, Jack follows a trail of death throughout the Midwest, on a collision course with the smartest and deadliest adversary she's ever known. During the chase, Jack jeopardizes her career, her love life, and her closest friends. She also comes to a startling realization -- serial killers have families, and blood runs thick. Rusty Nail features more of the laugh-out-loud humor and crazy characters that saturated Whiskey Sour and Bloody Mary, without sacrificing the nail-biting thrills. This is Jack Daniels' third, and most exciting, adventure yet!

4. Dirty Martini (2007)
   Lieutenant Jacqueline (Jack) Daniels, the insomniac Chicago cop with a train wreck of a personal life, has trouble on her hands, and it isn' just because her boyfriend, Latham, wants to get married and she's not sure she's ready. A man in disguise has been visiting restaurants, grocery stores, and fast food places, ingeniously spreading a deadly toxin. Chicago's newest criminal calls himself The Chemist, and he has murder on his mind. When Jack finds Latham unconscious on the floor of their apartment with toxin-laced takeout on the counter, it looks like someone has plans for her. Toxic plans. Add to that her dead father who actually isn't dead, her favorite partner, Herb Benedict, contemplating a transfer, and a plot to poison all the cops in Chicago, and Jack is in for a scary-as-hell ride.

5. Fuzzy Navel (2008)
   Anthony and Macavity Award finalist J.A. Konrath returns with the latest gripping--and hilarious--Jack Daniels mystery.
   
   Things are going well for Lieutenant Jacqueline "Jack" Daniels of the Chicago Police Department. She has solved some of the city's toughest and most high-profile homicides. Her personal life is finally in order. Her friends and family are safe and happy. And she just got a call that eased her mind like nothing else could: Alex Kork, one of the most dangerous criminals Jack ever arrested, killed herself while in jail.
   
   But things sour quickly when a group of vigilantes on a murderous spree decide to take down a cop and the people she cares about ... and they turn downright awful when Jack discovers that Kork may not be dead after all.
   
   The next eight hours will be the worst of Jack's life. And that's saying something.
   
   Fuzzy Navel is perfect for readers who like their mysteries with a shot of humor.

6. Cherry Bomb (July 12, 2009)
   At the end of Fuzzy Navel, J. A. Konrath surprised readers with an agonizing cliff-hanger: One of Lieutenant Jacqueline "Jack" Daniels's loved ones is dead. But who? Readers were left clamoring to know more.
   
   Cherry Bomb, the sixth Jack Daniels mystery, opens at the funeral. While Jack stands graveside, tears in her eyes, her cell phone rings. It's the killer, escaped maniac Alex Kork, taunting Jack, drawing her ever further into a twisted game of cat and mouse. Because while Alex is more than willing to kill random victims, Jack is her true prey. But which woman wants revenge more?
   
   Cherry Bomb is J. A. Konrath's most gripping novel of suspense yet--filled with twists and turns that will keep readers on the edge of their seats.

See also:

• These Guns for Hire (2006)
  They have a combined total of 500 million book sales, and have won every possible award in the mystery, thriller, and dark fiction genres.
  
  Thirty original hitman stories by today's modern masters. Noir. Wise guys. Sex. Freelance assassins. Humor. Violence. Femme fatales. Amateurs. Horror. Surprise twists. Hardboiled.
  
  Get ready for some wet work!

• Tales From the Red Lion (2007), Andrea Dubnick, ed.
  Many towns and cities around the world have a Red Lion Pub, and Chicago is no exception. Inside these pages you ll find tales of one of Chicago s favorite watering holes featuring barkeeps and barmaids, bar-fights, bar-jokes and barflies, several spirits and even a mystery or two by 14 Chicago authors.

• Thriller: Stories To Keep You Up All Night (2007) by
  Heather Graham, J. A. Konrath, James Grippando, James Siegel, and Lee Child
  Featuring North America's foremost thriller authors, Thriller is the first collection of pure thriller stories ever published. Offering up heart-pumping tales of suspense in all its guises are thirty-two of the most critically acclaimed and award-winning names in the business. From the signature characters that made such authors as David Morrell and John Lescroart famous, to four of the hottest new voices in the genre, this blockbuster will tantalize and terrify.
  
  Lock the doors, draw the shades, pull up the covers and be prepared for Thriller to keep you up all night.