Review: Stolen in Death

Stolen in Death by J.D. Robb
My rating: 5 of 5 stars




OMG! I have either turned into Eve Dallas - minus the billionaire sexy husband and living in the future or Ms. Robbs books have become a bit predictable (at least this one and Framed In Death)!

Although I found it a little predictable, there was a great twist that had me flipping through many past books to recall who this other person was. If it helps, it was book 24 wayyy back in the past! I finally had to Google it. And thank goodness for Google or I would be re-reading the series yet again! This novel brought Magdelena back into play, and since Magdelena knows and was involved with Roarke in his heyday we have to read this book worrying if he is finally going to have to face his past.

I adored this twist, but the murderer was who I thought it was and for exactly why it was done.

I adored that in these last two books, the best writing that Robb does has me on the edge of my seat, chewing my fingernails. Eve is a formidable person at the best of times, but reading about her having these horrid people in the interrogation room and making these selfish psychopaths finally get their comeuppance tickles me to death! Md Robb is just phenomenal at making the scenes so real to me.

This was an excellent addition to this series, even though it didn't start as many of her past books; vividly and horribly.


*ARC was supplied by the publisher St. Martin's Press/Macmillan, the author, and NetGalley.


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SUMMARY: "A violent death and a vault of stolen treasures has Eve Dallas struggling to solve crimes old and new in the latest thriller in the #1 New York Times-bestselling series.

A blow to the head with a block of amethyst has left multibillionaire Nathan Barrister dead―while nearby, a vault, its door ajar, sits filled with priceless paintings, jewelry, and other treasures. Lieutenant Eve Dallas’s husband, Roarke―who misspent his youth in Ireland as a scrappy thief―recognizes at least two stolen pieces among the hoard. The crime scene suggests a burglar caught in the act. But only one item seems to be missing.

Then it’s revealed that the vault had actually belonged to the victim’s late father―and no one in the household knew it was there until a recent remodeling project exposed it. To protect the family name and business, they explain to Eve, they’d been looking for a way to return the ill-gotten gains anonymously and avoid the police. But now the police are all over their elegant house, and have a bigger, bloodier mystery to solve.

By all accounts, Nathan Barrister was a good man, a generous employer, a devoted husband and father. As for his father―he clearly had secrets. Now it’s up to Eve and her team to find out if those secrets got Nathan killed―and if it was a crime of passion or revenge."