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Konrath's third outing to feature Chicago police lieutenant Jacqueline "Jack" Daniels, like its predecessors, Whiskey Sour and Bloody Mary, offers violent thrills peppered with hilarious one-liners. Jack's receipt of an anonymous snuff video that looks like the work of a serial killer called the Gingerbread Man, who was recently brought to justice, marks the start of a cat-and-mouse game with the killer, who plucks victims from the periphery of Jack's world—both professional and private. When Jack shakes the Gingerbread Man's twisted family tree, she unearths an unspeakable history of depravity and awakens sleeping dogs better left alone. A wedding in the woods turns sinister after a poison-laced champagne toast renders everyone in the wedding party unconscious, and Jack must race to save her friends from the surprise demon spawn that has outwitted her—though perhaps not the reader. Some may find that the surfeit of gore detracts from the engaging characters, true guffaws and tightly knit subplots.
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"Excellent smart-mouth thrills . . . my advice: Take a long sip." -- Lee Child

"Snappy dialogue. Powerful action. A fabulous character to spend time with." -- David Morrell

"This is a solid and successful sophomore effort that demands the next drink -- er, installment -- and soon" -- M.J. Rose
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  • Hardcover: 304 pages
  • Publisher: Hyperion (June 28, 2006)
  • Language: English
  • ISBN-10: 140130088X
  • ISBN-13: 978-1401300883
  • Product Dimensions: 9.3 x 6.2 x 1.1 inches
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  • Average Customer Review: 3.7 out of 5 stars  See all reviews (39 customer reviews)
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4 of 4 people found the following review helpful:
5.0 out of 5 stars Genuinely Original Entertainment, October 18, 2007
By M. Wilhite (Springfield, IL United States) - See all my reviews
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Just wanted to write and say thank you to Mr Konrath for entertaining me for the last few years. Jack Daniels is one of the freshest characters to hit print in a long time. Until Whiskey Sour, in order to get mystery in the same package as humor, you had to settle for Evanovich. Don't get me wrong -- I still love Evanovich when I'm in the mood for some brain candy, but it is a bit unfulfilling.

Jack brings me the suspense and terror of Thomas Harris with the intelligent, twisted humor of the Farrelly Brothers. On top of it all, being an ex-Chicagoan, I get to visit home with Jack. Also in favor of the books, my wife, the lifelong South Side Chicagoan, actually got physically ill during one of the scenes in Rusty Nail. Now THAT is good entertainment.

If you haven't already done it, do yourself a favor and buy all of Konrath's work. You won't be disappointed . . . unless, of course, you are a no-humor stiff. Even then, at least Konrath will have a bit more money to go towards entertaining me.
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4 of 4 people found the following review helpful:
5.0 out of 5 stars excellent Jack Daniels police procedural, July 12, 2006
Chicago police lieutenant Jacqueline "Jack" Daniels receives an anonymous snuff video that appears to be the classic work of serial killer the Gingerbread Man, Charles Kork. The only problem with holding the Gingerbread Man culpable is that he is already a guest of the state. Jack assumes it is copy cat with insider information. Since her partner Herb Benedict is hospitalized, she decides to go it alone looking closely at Kork's relatives and friends.

However, though she finds perversion, insanity, criminality and worse as the norm, Jack fails to get any closer to identifying and catching the killer. Instead the unknown murderer seems to target those related to the beleaguered cop who leaves taunting clues like toes in the cookie jar for Jack insisting he is back. Jack knows she must stop this brilliant but psychopath copy cat killer before he toasts the deaths of her loved ones because he seems to be fixated on her.

The killer ironically is obvious to the reader early on while Jack remains clueless as the culprit outplays her at every turn in their cat and mouse encounter. As always with a Jack Daniels police procedural (see WHISKEY SOUR and BLOODY MARY) gore and humor are mixed together often in the same scene. Fans will laugh and groan as Jack battles against a diabolical lethal lunatic, who seems always one step, make that multiple steps, ahead of her.

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3.0 out of 5 stars over the top, March 25, 2007
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J.A. Konrath needs to trust his writing more and not feel that he needs to always have a horrific crime playing counterpoint to his storyline. His characters are well fleshed-out and we like and enjoy them. The crime story and characters are so over the top I just began to skim them, boring.
It is dissapointing to see such good talent wasted.
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3.0 out of 5 stars Not just another cocktail
Rusty Nail is my first foray into the world of Lt. Jack (short for Jaqueline) Daniels, a forty-something police detective who cares about her job. Read more
Published 1 month ago by Linda

4.0 out of 5 stars Third Time's a Charm
I was in the mood for some light summer reading so I picked up J.A. Konrath's third book in his Jack Daniels series. Read more
Published 2 months ago by Roman Martel

3.0 out of 5 stars Good, but with flaws
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This one did keep me just as enthralled as the first two. I absolutely LOVE Jack Daniels as a main character. Read more
Published 4 months ago by Red Adept

1.0 out of 5 stars This is the last "Jack" Daniels for me
I read the first two Jack Daniels novels and couldn't decide if I liked them or not so I decided to go ahead and try Rusty Nail. Read more
Published 8 months ago by Timothy Duncan

5.0 out of 5 stars Rusty Review
This is J. A. Konrath's third book in his Jack Daniels series.

Both Jack and Herb had to fight to stay in the land of the living after being subjected to fire... Read more
Published 13 months ago by Susie McCray

1.0 out of 5 stars Put a Kork in it already
The third in the series, Rusty Nail is a bad, thoroughly gory rehash of the first novel in which hero Jack Daniels tracks down a serial killer named Kork. Read more
Published 15 months ago by S. Baldwin

5.0 out of 5 stars Funny, refreshing, can't wait for the next in the series!
It is very refreshing to have a female heroine who is independent, flawed, fun, funny, and over 30. (While I love the Stepanie Plums of the fiction world, it is nice to know there... Read more
Published 16 months ago by K. Hatch

5.0 out of 5 stars Konrath nails down another 5 star's!!
Rusty Nail is one of the greatest books I have ever read. J.A. Konrath is spectactular this is a book you will not be able to put down. Read more
Published 19 months ago by J. Mooney

3.0 out of 5 stars not a whole lot of suspense. . .
because I figured out whodunnit as soon as that character was introduced.

I'd read the first two Jack Daniels mysteries, and I'd enjoyed them. Read more
Published 22 months ago by Gabriela Perez

3.0 out of 5 stars A little rusty this time around...
Jack Daniels is back, and she is glad that things around the office have quieted down. But they aren't calm for very long. Read more
Published 23 months ago by Carlen Schmidt

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