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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Review: New York to Dallas by J.D. Robb

Title: New York to Dallas
Series: In Death
Author: J.D. Robb
Read copy: eBook (Kindle)
Published: September 13, 2011
Publisher: Berkley
ASIN: B004Z4IKMM

When a monster named Isaac McQueen—taken down by Eve back in her uniform days—escapes from Rikers, he has two things in mind. One is to pick up where he left off, abducting young victims and leaving them scarred in both mind and body. The other is to get revenge on the woman who stopped him all those years ago.

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Sunday, November 19, 2017

Review: Treachery in Death by J.D. Robb

Title: Treachery in Death
Series: In Death
Author: J.D. Robb
Read copy: eBook (Kindle)
Published: February 22, 2011
Publisher: Berkley
ASIN: B004FPYZAW

Detective Eve Dallas and her partner, Peabody, are following up on a senseless crime—an elderly grocery owner killed by three stoned punks for nothing more than kicks and snacks. This is Peabody's first case as primary detective—good thing she learned from the master.

But Peabody soon stumbles upon a trickier situation. After a hard workout, she's all alone in the locker room when the gym door clatters open; and—while hiding inside a shower stall trying not to make a sound—she overhears two fellow officers, Garnet and Oberman, arguing. It doesn't take long to realize they're both crooked—guilty not just of corruption but of murder. Now Peabody, Eve, and Eve's husband, Roarke, are trying to get the hard evidence they need to bring the dirty cops down—knowing all the while that the two are willing to kill to keep their secret.


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Saturday, November 18, 2017

Review: Possession in Death by J.D. Robb

Title: Possession In Death
Series: In Death
Author: J.D. Robb
Read copy: eBook (Kindle)
Published: November 8, 2012
Publisher: Piatkus
ASIN: B0099V220M

The devil killed my body. I cannot fight. I cannot free her. You must. You are the one.

A dying Romanian woman's words send a chill down Lieutenant Eve Dallas' spine. And soon Eve notices some interesting side-effects: visions of the deceased and even fluency in Russian.

Against her better judgment, Eve is convinced the spirit of the old woman is inside her, unable to rest until she's found her great-granddaughter who vanished two months ago. Desperate to be back to normal, Eve realises a string of young women have gone missing, and if Eve doesn't find them, no one will.


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Review: Indulgence in Death by J.D. Robb

Title: Indulgence in Death
Series: In Death
Author: J.D. Robb
Read copy: eBook (Kindle)
Published: November 2, 2010
Publisher: Berkley
ASIN: B003ZK58WC

When a murder disrupts the Irish vacation she is taking with her husband, Roarke, Eve realizes that no place is safe—not an Irish wood or the streets of the manic city she calls home. But nothing prepares her for what she discovers upon her return to the cop shop in New York...

A limo driver is shot through the neck with a crossbow. Then a high-priced escort is found stabbed through the heart with a bayonet. Eve begins to fear that she has come across that most dangerous of criminal, a thrill-killer, but one with a taste for the finer things in life—and death.

As time runs out on another innocent victim’s life, Eve’s investigation will take her into the rarified circle that her husband Roarke travels in—and into the perverted heart of madness...


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Thursday, November 16, 2017

Review: Fantasy in Death by J.D. Robb

Title: Fantasy in Death
Series: In Death
Author: J.D. Robb
Read copy: eBook (Kindle)
Published: February 23, 2010
Publisher: Berkley
ASIN: B002VUFKFC

Bart Minnock, founder of the computer-gaming giant U-Play, enters his private playroom, and eagerly can't wait to lose himself in an imaginary world, to play the role of a sword-wielding warrior king, in his company's latest top-secret project, Fantastical.

The next morning, he is found in the same locked room, in a pool of blood, his head separated from his body. It is the most puzzling case Eve Dallas has ever faced, and it is not a game...

NYPSD Lieutenant Eve Dallas is having as much trouble figuring out how Bart Minnock was murdered as who did the murdering. The victim's girlfriend seems sincerely grief-stricken, and his quirky-but-brilliant partners at U-Play appear equally shocked. No one seemed to have a problem with the enthusiastic, high-spirited millionaire. Of course, success can attract jealousy, and gaming, like any business, has its fierce rivalries and dirty tricks-as Eve's husband, Roarke, one of U-Play's competitors, knows well. But Minnock was not naive, and quite capable of fighting back in the real world as well as the virtual one.

Eve and her team are about to enter the next level of police work, in a world where fantasy is the ultimate seduction-and the price of defeat is death...


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Tuesday, November 14, 2017

Review: Missing in Death by J.D. Robb

Title: Missing In Death
Series: In Death
Author: J.D. Robb
Read copy: eBook (Kindle)
Published: October 11, 2012
Publisher: Piatukus
ASIN: B0099V26YO

Aboard the Staten Island ferry, a tourist comes across something she shouldn't have seen—something someone needs kept very quiet. Soon no one can find her. But if she didn't jump, and she's not on board, where is she?

Homicide Lieutenant Eve Dallas is called to the scene and is quickly faced with a shocking web of lies. With time running out and a deadly trail of intimidation and revenge emerging, Eve and her team must find out just what was seen on that ferry...


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