Passions in Death by J.D. RobbMy rating: 4 of 5 stars
3.5 rounded up
Good grief, I can't believe there are 59 books in this series! I can easily see that the writing has changed over the years, sometimes for the better and sometimes not so much.
This book starts off slow and is a bit tedious at times, but it sure does pick up toward the end. The slang was a little hard for me to follow at times. It sort of reminded me of the one Eve Dallas book where she used the abbreviated word 'anal' for the word "analyze." I couldn't help but snort every time I read that term. The abbreviations in this book did much the same for me.
I was also disappointed that we didn't get to see many of the usual secondary characters, and Roarke gets a bit of an abbreviated part in this book.
The story was good, but for the obvious red herring the author throws in. It did have me wondering for quite a while who-dun-it, so that was satisfying.
All in all, it was a good early autumn vacation mystery. (this book comes out September 3rd).
*ARC was supplied by the publisher St. Martin's Press, the author, and NetGalley.
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On a hot August night, Lt. Eve Dallas and her husband, Roarke, speed through the streets of Manhattan to the Down and Dirty club, where a joyful, boisterous pre-wedding girls’ night out has turned into a murder scene. One of the brides lies in a pool of blood, garroted in a private room where she was preparing a surprise for her fiancée—two scrimped and saved-for tickets to Hawaii.
Despite the dozens of people present, useful witnesses are hard to come by. It all brings back some bad memories for Eve. In her uniform days, she’d suffered an assault in the very same room—but she’d been able to fight back and survive. She’d gotten justice. And now she needs to provide some for poor young Erin.
Eve knows that the level of violence and the apparent premeditation involved suggest a volatile mix of hidden, heated passion and ice-cold calculation. This is a crime that can be countered only by hard detective work and relentless dedication—and Eve will not stop until she finds the killer who destroyed this couple’s dreams before the honeymoon even began…"
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SYNOPSIS : "Homicide Detective Eve Dallas hunts a killer who turns a wedding party into a murder scene in the latest novel by the #1 New York Times bestselling author, J.D. Robb.
On a hot August night, Lt. Eve Dallas and her husband, Roarke, speed through the streets of Manhattan to the Down and Dirty club, where a joyful, boisterous pre-wedding girls’ night out has turned into a murder scene. One of the brides lies in a pool of blood, garroted in a private room where she was preparing a surprise for her fiancée—two scrimped and saved-for tickets to Hawaii.
Despite the dozens of people present, useful witnesses are hard to come by. It all brings back some bad memories for Eve. In her uniform days, she’d suffered an assault in the very same room—but she’d been able to fight back and survive. She’d gotten justice. And now she needs to provide some for poor young Erin.
Eve knows that the level of violence and the apparent premeditation involved suggest a volatile mix of hidden, heated passion and ice-cold calculation. This is a crime that can be countered only by hard detective work and relentless dedication—and Eve will not stop until she finds the killer who destroyed this couple’s dreams before the honeymoon even began…"
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