i love all of j.d. robb books
This whole series is a cut above the average police procedural or crime romance novel. The motivations are well thought out and convincing and the action suspenseful. Interactions between the regular characters are touching, distinct and believable. Brava!
As always J D Robb delivers. The book kept me interested the entire way through. Eve is after a killer who is using advanced weapons to kill from long distances. She will not give up, even when she discovers the identity of the killer. The book will keep you reading to find out how it ends.
Great level of action throughout but not as much content about the beloved secondary characters.
Our usual crew is back on the job for a mostly satisfying turn in 2060 NYC. The running tie joke continues. Someone's got a girl friend, maybe? The birthday party has a hoot of a guest list. Mavis appears, but seems to be demoted from very present bestie to best friend with a separate life. Whitney wants his own DLE . Oh. There's a serial killer on the loose who's proving to be an excellent sniper.
The Homicide squad, Morris, and the Crime Scene crew take front and center stage in this latest installment of the In Death series. Roarke really should get a desk in her squad room, because he's talking like one of the cops. You know halfway through the book who the bad guys are. The rest is spent trying to stop and capture them.
This feels like a decently written police procedural, with a little token socializing at the end to bring in all the ancillary characters who didn't have an excuse to appear in the rest of the story. It definitely was written by a ghost writter - one who nearly mimics Nora Roberts. But that hard, driven, suspenseful writing style that characterized the J. D. Robb persona is just not as present, unlike NR's mainstream books that stiil sound like her style. It's not to say that this writer is bad or off the reservation like ones from two to three years ago. It's just that the intwining of the non-cop secondary characters with the Dallas' professional life is not as tight as it used to be. The grays are fading from her world, becoming lighter or darker.
The Homicide squad, Morris, and the Crime Scene crew take front and center stage in this latest installment of the In Death series. Roarke really should get a desk in her squad room, because he's talking like one of the cops. You know halfway through the book who the bad guys are. The rest is spent trying to stop and capture them.
This feels like a decently written police procedural, with a little token socializing at the end to bring in all the ancillary characters who didn't have an excuse to appear in the rest of the story. It definitely was written by a ghost writter - one who nearly mimics Nora Roberts. But that hard, driven, suspenseful writing style that characterized the J. D. Robb persona is just not as present, unlike NR's mainstream books that stiil sound like her style. It's not to say that this writer is bad or off the reservation like ones from two to three years ago. It's just that the intwining of the non-cop secondary characters with the Dallas' professional life is not as tight as it used to be. The grays are fading from her world, becoming lighter or darker.
