Bloody Mary is the second book in J.A. Konrath’s “Jack” Daniels series. Bloody Mary starts with Lieutenant Jacqueline Daniels being called down to the county morgue because a few extra body parts have been found. Not just any body parts though. This pair of arms was found held together with Daniels’ own handcuffs. Like it? It gets better from there.

If you told me that the bad guy would be revealed and caught in the middle of the book and that the remainder of the story would still be just as intense and suspenseful as the hunt for the perp I never would have believed you. But finding the killer’s name is just the beginning of the story.

Konrath must have been laughing at the idea that all mysteries reveal the bad guy at the climax. He absolutely shattered my preconceived notions of what a mystery should be.

Bloody Mary is fun, funny, incredibly dark, and completely pulled me in. My only regret is that I finished it at 3am, and alas all the book stores that carry the third book in the series were closed.