Review: Haunted in Death by J.D. Robb

Title: Haunted In Death
Series: In Death
Author: J.D. Robb
Read copy: eBook (Kindle)
Published: July 5, 2012
Publisher: Piatkus
ASIN: B008HIO32I

Lieutenant Eve Dallas doesn't believe in ghosts. But everyone else is spooked by the supposedly haunted abandoned nightclub where a very recent corpse has just shown up—alongside the bones of the famous missing singer, Bobbie Bray. As grandson of the original owner, Radcliff C. Hopkins was planning to reopen the nightclub and cash in on its notoriety. But his grandfather is rumoured to be the one who killed Bobbie. Did Bobbie's ghost finally get her revenge, or is there a more earthly explanation?

My rating:

Number Twelve, an old, abandoned nightclub, is reputed to be haunted. Then the owner, a descendant of the original one, the one who supposedly killed his young girlfriend, is found dead in the club, his body full of bullet holes...And on the upper floor, there's a hole in the wall and inside skeletal remains; remains of the first victim, shot dead over a century before.


I simply couldn't get into this one. It was slow, rather dull, and pretty incongruous with the rest of the series. It felt written like an afterthought than an actual short story, with characters I usually love reading about merely going through the motions.

---

2 stars, bodyguard/military/merc/gov/cop/spy, Nora Roberts/J.D. Robb, paranormal, sci-fi/futuristic, short story/novella, suspense/mystery/adventure/thriller

---