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Review: Connections in Death by J.D. Robb

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Title: Connections in Death
Series: In Death
Author: J.D. Robb
Read copy: eBook (Kindle)
Published: February 5, 2019
Publisher: St. Martin's Press
ASIN: B07D2C2J66

Homicide cop Eve Dallas and her billionaire husband, Roarke, are building a brand-new school and youth shelter. They know that the hard life can lead kids toward dangerous crossroads—and with this new project, they hope to nudge a few more of them onto the right path. For expert help, they hire child psychologist Dr. Rochelle Pickering—whose own brother pulled himself out of a spiral of addiction and crime with Rochelle’s support.

Lyle is living with Rochelle while he gets his life together, and he’s thrilled to hear about his sister’s new job offer. But within hours, triumph is followed by tragedy. Returning from a celebratory dinner with her boyfriend, she finds Lyle dead with a syringe in his lap, and Eve’s investigation confirms that this wasn’t just another OD. After all his work to get clean, Lyle’s been pumped full of poison—and a neighbor with a peephole reports seeing a scruffy, pink-haired girl fleeing the scene.

Now Eve and Roarke must venture into the gang territory where Lyle used to run, and the ugly underground world of tattoo parlors and strip joints where everyone has taken a wrong turn somewhere. They both believe in giving people a second chance. Maybe even a third or fourth. But as far as they’re concerned, whoever gave the order on Lyle Pickering’s murder has run out of chances…

My rating:

Mere hours after securing a new job as head counselor for Roarke and Eve's youth shelter, dr. Rochelle Pickering comes home to find her brother, who recently got his two-year chip for staying clean after finally turning his life around, dead of overdose in their apartment.

An ordinary cop would immediately take the scene at face value, ruling it an OD and closing the file. But Eve Dallas isn't an ordinary cop and this isn't ordinary OD—it's murder.


Either I got seriously out of the groove of this series, or this book simply is one of the duds. I liked the beginning, up until the two murders, and the ending, when all the connections finally came to the fore...It was the middle (and longest) par that put me into a fugue.
I simply couldn't muster the enthusiasm and/or energy to give a fart about the investigation. And I rather like the convoluted mystery kind of stories.

This one had plenty of twists and turns, red herrings, loose ends, one-way streets and blind spots, it's just that the package it came in was rather...well, boring.

Moving on, hoping for better entertainment.

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