Wednesday, November 29, 2017

Review: Concealed in Death by J.D. Robb

Title: Concealed in Death
Series: In Death
Author: J.D. Robb
Read copy: eBook (Kindle)
Published: February 18, 2014
Publisher: Berkley
ASIN: B00DGZKJ9I

In a decrepit, long-empty New York building, Lieutenant Eve Dallas’s husband begins the demolition process by swinging a sledgehammer into a wall. When the dust clears, there are two skeletons wrapped in plastic behind it. He summons his wife immediately—and by the time she’s done with the crime scene, there are twelve murders to be solved.

The place once housed a makeshift shelter for troubled teenagers, back in the mid-2040s, and Eve tracks down the people who ran it. Between their recollections and the work of the force’s new forensic anthropologist, Eve begins to put names and faces to the remains. They are all young girls. A tattooed tough girl who dealt in illegal drugs. The runaway daughter of a pair of well-to-do doctors. They all had their stories. And they all lost their chance for a better life.

Then Eve discovers a connection between the victims and someone she knows. And she grows even more determined to reveal the secrets of the place that was called The Sanctuary—and the evil concealed in one human heart.


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Monday, November 27, 2017

Review: Taken in Death by J.D. Robb

Title: Taken in Death
Series: In Death
Author: J.D. Robb
Read copy: eBook (Kindle)
Published: September 10, 2013
Publisher: Piatkus
ASIN: B00EORABAE

When twins Henry and Gala are kidnapped and their nanny killed, Lieutenant Eve Dallas steps in to take control. But video footage shows what appears to be their mother arriving and leaving with the obviously drugged seven-year-olds. Something is wrong, and Eve, her husband Roarke and her brilliant team are ready to work round the clock to get the children back alive...

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Review: Thankless in Death by J.D. Robb

Title: Thankless in Death
Series: In Death
Author: J.D. Robb
Read copy: eBook (Kindle)
Published: September 17, 2013
Publisher: Berkley
ASIN: B00C5R7GIA

Lieutenant Eve Dallas has plenty to be grateful for this season. Hosting Roarke’s big Irish family for the holiday may be challenging, but it’s a joyful improvement on her own dark childhood.

Other couples aren’t as lucky as Eve and Roarke. The Reinholds, for example, are lying in their home stabbed and bludgeoned almost beyond recognition. Those who knew them are stunned—and heartbroken by the evidence that they were murdered by their own son. Twenty-six-year-old Jerry hadn’t made a great impression on the bosses who fired him or the girlfriend who dumped him—but they didn’t think he was capable of this.

Turns out Jerry is not only capable of brutality but taking a liking to it. With the money he’s stolen from his parents and a long list of grievances, he intends to finally make his mark on the world. Eve and her team already know the who, how, and why of this murder. What they need to pinpoint is where Jerry’s going to strike next.


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Saturday, November 25, 2017

Review: Calculated in Death by J.D. Robb

Title: Calculated in Death
Series: In Death
Author: J.D. Robb
Read copy: eBook (Kindle)
Published: February 26, 2013
Publisher: Berkley
ASIN: B008ON43PS

On Manhattan's Upper East Side a woman lies dead at the bottom of the stairs, stripped of all her valuables. Most cops might call it a mugging gone wrong, but Lieutenant Eve Dallas knows better.

A well-off accountant and a beloved wife and mother, Marta Dickenson doesn't seem the type to be on anyone's hit list. But when Eve and her partner, Peabody, find blood inside the building, the lieutenant knows Marta's murder was the work of a killer who's trained, but not professional or smart enough to remove all the evidence.

But when someone steals the files out of Marta's office, Eve must immerse herself in her billionaire husband Roarke's world of big business to figure out who's cruel and callous enough to hire a hit on an innocent woman. And as the killer's violent streak begins to escalate, Eve knows she has to draw him out, even if it means using herself as bait...


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Thursday, November 23, 2017

Review: Delusion in Death by J.D. Robb

Title: Delusion in Death
Series: In Death
Author: J.D. Robb
Read copy: eBook (Kindle)
Published: September 11, 2012
Publisher: Berkley
ASIN3: B007T8LJO2

It was just another after-work happy-hour bar downtown, where business professionals unwound with a few drinks...until something went terribly wrong. And after twelve minutes of chaos and violence, eighty people lay dead.

Lieutenant Eve Dallas is trying to sort out the inexplicable events. Surviving witnesses talk about seeing things—monsters and swarms of bees. They describe sudden, overwhelming feelings of fear and rage and paranoia. When forensics gives its report, the mass delusions make more sense; it appears the bar patrons were exposed to a cocktail of chemicals and illegal drugs that could drive anyone to temporary insanity—if not kill them outright.

But that doesn’t explain who would unleash such horror—or why. And if Eve can’t figure it out fast, it could happen again, anytime, anywhere. Because it’s airborne...


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Tuesday, November 21, 2017

Review: Celebrity in Death by J.D. Robb

Title: Celebrity in Death
Series: In Death
Author: J.D. Robb
Read copy: eBook (Kindle)
Published: February 1, 2012
Publisher: Berkley
ASIN: B005GSZIZS

Lieutenant Eve Dallas is no party girl, but she’s managing to have a reasonably good time at the celebrity-packed bash celebrating The Icove Agenda, a film based on one of her famous cases. It’s a little spooky seeing the actress playing her, who looks almost like her long-lost twin. Not as unsettling, though, as seeing the actress who plays Peabody—drowned in the lap pool on the roof of the director’s luxury building. Talented but rude, and widely disliked, K. T. Harris had made an embarrassing scene during dinner. Now she’s at the center of a crime scene—and Eve is more than ready to get out of her high heels and strap on her holster, to step into the role she was born to play: cop.

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Monday, November 20, 2017

Review: Chaos in Death by J.D. Robb

Title: Chaos in Death
Series: In Death
Author: J.D. Robb
Read copy: eBook (Kindle)
Published: March 15, 2013
Publisher: Piatkus
ASIN: B00BIIYSAG

Eve Dallas' latest case is starting off a little more bizarre than usual—a police sketch of a killer based on eye-witness testimony reveals he has green skin, swollen red eyes, goblin ears, and a dislocated jaw-structure that defies the human form. Is it a mask? Is it make-up? Or is the explanation more sinister?

Dallas faces off against multiple suspects—all of them students of medicine capable of precisely slicing the ears, noses, and eyes of the three victims. But who had the motive? More importantly, what kind of rogue science are these healers practicing?


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