Rourke's past comes back to haunt him when a familiar face pops up at a murder. A psycho from his childhood has Rourke & Eve on the case to catch a contract killer who has eluded authorities for 20 years. Investigating a murder and tying in past murders has Eve and her team along with an agent from Interpol helping out. Well thought out mystery of connecting the dots to box in the killer
This might sound crazy to J D Robb enthusiasts, but this was the first book in the series that I read. (Because I couldn't find anything else at the library that looked tempting.) I was carried along by the interesting dynamics between Eve and Roarke, but it wasn't until page 248 that I had an unmistakable clue that this book was set in the future! To me, that shows poor craft on the writer's part. Before that, there was one other clue that stopped me, but I put that aside as maybe just a mistake. Nevertheless, I enjoyed the book enough to order another one in the series. Both characters and plot are distinctive and engrossing.
I feel as though JD Robb has been losing her touch. Her latest few in death books don't captivate the way the early ones in the series did. They seem almost formulaic now
