Excellent crime novel. Starts off with a bang, has many credible suspects and a hard-to-solve mystery, interesting relationships and a twist at the end that I was not at all expecting.
But I have a hard time with Robb's New York City of the future, which reads more like a small town with walled estates and a clique of rich people who mostly know each other than like a metropolis of millions.
But I have a hard time with Robb's New York City of the future, which reads more like a small town with walled estates and a clique of rich people who mostly know each other than like a metropolis of millions.
For a J.D. Robb book, this is pretty bland. Whoever really wrote it got the character profiles but not the spirit or rhythm of a true In Death book. If the publisher keeps getting ghost writers (hard to imagine give NR's prodigious annual output) for this series, at least get people with some storytelling skills. I still go back and read the earlier books. But the recent ones are "one and done" - and this one is in the 2nd bucket.
This won't stop me from reading future books. But I have not kept one since NY->Dallas.
This won't stop me from reading future books. But I have not kept one since NY->Dallas.
This series is one of my favorite guilty pleasures. This one had a lot to like - theatrical murders, sensitivity to domestic violence, family systems issues, and NYC in a snowstorm. We got to see Peabody and Dr. Mira but not many of the other secondary characters.
She doesn't get old or boring. This book is classic J.D. Robb. After a party, Lt. Eve Dallas rides home with her billionaire husband. After another party, not far away, a woman retires to her bedroom with her husband and walks into a brutal nightmare. There paths are about to collide....
Are the stories getting gorier and more violent, or is it just the?
