Dark in Death: In Death, Book 46
By Midas / February 20, 2018 / 3 Comments / Audio Books
Lieutenant Eve Dallas returns in the new novel by the #1 New York Times bestselling master of suspense, and takes on a case of death imitating art…
It was a stab in the dark.
On a chilly February night, during a screening of Psycho in midtown, someone sunk an ice pick into the back of Chanel Rylan’s neck, then disappeared quietly into the crowds of drunks and tourists in Times Square. To Chanel’s best friend, who had just slipped out of the theater for a moment to take a call, it felt as unreal as the ancient black-and-white movie up on the screen. But Chanel’s blood ran red, and her death was anything but fictional.
Then, as Eve Dallas puzzles over a homicide that seems carefully planned and yet oddly personal, she receives a tip from an unexpected source: an author of police thrillers who recognizes the crime – from the pages of her own book. Dallas doesn’t think it’s coincidence, since a recent strangulation of a sex worker resembles a scene from her writing as well. Cops look for patterns of behavior: similar weapons, similar MOs. But this killer seems to find inspiration in someone else’s imagination, and if the theory holds, this may be only the second of a long-running series.
The good news is that Eve and her billionaire husband Roarke have an excuse to curl up in front of the fireplace with their cat, Galahad, reading mystery stories for research. The bad news is that time is running out before the next victim plays an unwitting role in a murderer’s deranged private drama – and only Eve can put a stop to a creative impulse gone horribly, destructively wrong.
From the author of Echoes in Death, this is the latest of the edgy, phenomenally popular police procedurals that Publishers Weekly calls “inventive, entertaining, and clever.”
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Readable, but flawed execution atypical for an experienced author Unlike her July 2017 offering, Sundown, under her alternate pen name Nora Roberts, this one was at least readable. It checked all the boxes for being mostly acceptable. I knew it was in trouble before I finished the opening sentence, though. “On the mega screen bloody murder played out in classic black and white for an audience of one humdred and seven.” If you have to start the first sentence over because the author/editor missed the comma after “screen,” you know you’re in…
Not the best JD Robb. Some parts of this book were so boring I almost fell asleep. I have always liked the JD Robb books because they are gritty, have a lot of action and Eve is so dedicated to her job and finding justice that she doesn’t sleep or eat when she is on a case like this. A lot of that was missing in this book. The domestic bliss went on and on and on. While I’m glad to see she is happy, I expected more action and more interaction from the players. Some of that interaction felt staged and not real…
Not One Of Her Best – More Dialogue Than Action I read this in about 12 hours. I will reread, as I rushed through some paragraphs of the endless dialogue.I am obsessed with this series. I know the entire 46 books/14 short stories series very, very well. I think I’ve read the entire series chronologically about ten times through, possibly more. I read them over and over and just keep going to back to them, I just love them so much. So I feel that I have a good grasp of the characters and stories.This book was just…