Do all good things really come to an end?

Have you ever wondered how the life of your favorite "serial" heroine/protaganist is going to work itself out? If you've been reading J. A. Konrath's novels over the years featuring Jacqueline "Jack" Daniels, you've watched her go through her career as a police Lieutenant meeting up with the most vicious serial killers while building a career and working through a marriage and a couple of long term relationships. Konrath's latest, "Shaken", is a compilation of several time lines in Daniels life that show where she's been, what she's been through, and what might have been. More than just an exploration of Jack's life though, this book is still a thriller, bringing together several notorious killers. The mystery successfully catches everyone up, even if you've never read Konrath's books (Bloody Mary, Rusty Nail, Dirty Martini, to name a few).

The really interesting part of this book is the author's afterward. Konrath foretells of the conclusion of his Jack Daniels series and Blake Crouch's Andrew Thomas series featuring villain Luther Kite. Crouch's Luther Kite showed up in a couple of Konrath's mysteries, making way for a perfect collaboration. Konrath and Crouch are currently hard at work on the finale "Stirred". Since they are calling the conclusion "bittersweet for the authors", I'm wondering how I'm going to deal with the ending to Jack Daniels career or life!