Jack Daniels Stories

I had read some of these before, but still a fun read.

A collection of short stories starring characters from Konrath's Jack Daniels series: Homicide Detective Jacqueline Daniels, her partner Herb Benedict, and private detectives Phineas Troutt and Harry McGlade.

Konrath uses these stories to try out a bunch of different areas of crime fiction, from classical mysteries to modern thrillers with Daniels and Benedict, to hardboiled/noir material with Troutt, and flat-out parody with McGlade. Having the collection switch sub-genres with every story helped keep things fresh and entertaining. It will be interesting to see how those characters interact with each other in one of the actual novels, however, given that I'm already associating them with those different sub-genres.