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Summary: Isn't anyone brave enough to tell the author?!
Review: I bought this book as a fairly random choice based on its good reviews. The plot is clever enough and the police procedures are reasonably knowledgeable but......! Aren't there supposed to be proof-readers and editors whose job it is to make sure that an author doesn't make embarrassing errors? I'm an Irishman and I can promise you that the image of Dublin exemplified by one of the main characters just doesn't ring true. Roarke's background would have been difficult enough to justify if he had been born in the 60's or 70's but he's supposed to be from the early 21st century for heaven's sake and he talks about Dublin as if he had come from a huge slum! The dialogue he comes out with is just totally incredible and I use that word in its literal form. His phrases and attitudes are not the stuff of an ex-gangland boss from Ireland. But then the dialogue of the entire book is sadly embarrassing. On the last page, one of the two main characters refers to an enemy as "him and his ... son". A half dozen lines later, exactly the same dialogue comes out of the mouth of his wife! And again, earlier in the book.... "People ask me why I'm doing this, why I'm giving so much of it up. Do you know what I say?" You have to turn the page to get the answer from the hard-bitten female cop and the delay adds to the leaden disappointment of what she says....."No, what?" !!! (Even if she had said, "No, but I suppose you're going to tell me.") Having said all of that, I finished the book to see the end so it "held" me in that sense. I do think that Nora needs to get herself some honest proof-readers and/or editor, then her imaginative plots might have a bit more literary and realistic merit.
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Summary: ABSOLUTELY THE GREATEST! I LOVE THIS SERIES!
Review: Nora Roberts, as J. D. Robb, delivers the best thrillers in her "IN DEATH" series. I just can't put them down! In this book, we are taken to May in New York, the year is 2059. Tonight, NYPSD Lieutenant Eve Dallas is dressed in silk and diamonds, attending a party with her sinfully rich and handsome husband Roarke. Eve still hasn't gotten used to the idea that so much has changed since her marriage to the man that goes by only one name, Roarke. No matter what name he goes by, he is her lover and protector. While in the hotel ballroom of THE ROARKE PALACE HOTEL, champagne is served and millions of dollars worth of jewelry and art are on display for the Magda Lane auction - no one is aware that in room 4602 a horrific rape and murder is taking place. When Eve is notified of the death, she jumps into action. She knows what it's like to be beaten and broken, and above all helpless. The victims of murder have a name, face and a voice. It's her duty to speak for the dead. She calls in her team - Peabody, Feeney, McNab, and Dr. Mira. She needs to know why housekeeper Darlene French was killed. When they find out who the murderer is, more questions need answers. He's a killing machine named Sylvester Yost, and his 'services' weren't cheap. He didn't care why he was paid to kill Darlene, he just accepted the contract, fulfilled it, and took the money [along with a souvenir from his victim]. This was just the beginning... He strikes again. This time the brutal rape and murder of Jonah Talbot is caught on a security disc.
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Summary: Ms Roberts--Take your name off the cover
Review: This is the first of the JD Robb books that Nora Roberts has put her name on -- that was a mistake. Nora Roberts fans will know of her JD Robb penname, and there is a large audience out there (particularly male) who would very much enjoy and read this series, but wouldn't be caught dead on an airplane with a Nora Roberts title (face it, guys don't read romance authors). The JD Robb series is very different from all Nora Roberts books I have read, and while I will pass on a Nora Roberts book, I actively anticipate the next installment in the JD Robb series. After 12 novels (and 1 short story) about these main characters, they continue to fascinate us all. Add in the background of 2059, and the plots here each time are new and interesting, although relatively harsh and gritty. Recommend the new reader start from the beginning to get the many hours of enjoyment out of this series...not for the faint hearted.
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Summary: Not the best of the series.
Review: I agree with the other reviewers that this book was a bit of a disappointment because of its abrupt and somewhat anticlimactic ending. After setting up both Roarke and Eve as targets it seems the author ran out of time and just ended the story with the villian captured quite easily. Not what I'm used to in these books. However, the story is still interesting in furthering the story of Eve, Roarke and the gang and I look forward to the next installment.
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Summary: Can it get any better than this?
Review: I wait impatiently for each new release of the "..in Death" series, and this one is one of the best yet! Even knowing who the murderer is from the beginning didn't eliminate the anxiety of who would be next. Like with any good mystery (and this is one of them), I tried to figure out who started it all. I had two choices, and both of them were wrong! My only disappointment in the storyline was Agent Jacoby. His actions did not add anything except distraction to the story as a whole. I would have liked to have his character fleshed out a little more than it was. I had nothing but cheers for Sommerset as well. Who'd have thought that he could do what he did! I am curious as to when Dallas and Roarke are going to start thinking about enlarging their family. Hopefuly, it won't be for another two or three books yet. Kudos for Nora Roberts as J.D. Robb!
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Summary: Betrayal in Death
Review: I loved it. I hate to admit it but I read this book first, now I am hooked. Now I'm starting at the beginning and reading all the "in Death" books.
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Summary: They keep getting better
Review: This latest in the "In Death" series does not disappoint. Eve Dallas as the NY cop, in futuristic 2059, is tough as ever and satisfies all those who enjoy women who can hold their own in a man's domain. Roarke is as sexy as ever (and still a billionaire) and in this latest book Eve gets the chance to pay back to Roarke some of the tender loving care he always gives to her. Each installment of this series adds a new dimension to the relationship between Roarke and Eve as they come up on their first year of marriage. The budding relationship between McNab and Peabody gets more interesting and while there's more heat going on there, Eve and Feeney (McNab's boss), do everything they can to ignore it. The main focus of the story, of course, is the case. Eve is tracking a contract killer that even the FBI hasn't been able to catch for 25 years. All the in's and out's of the case, Roarke trying to help with his 'unregistered' computer equipment, and a visit from one of Roarke's boyhood friends from Dublin, make "Betrayal in Death" as good, if not better, then all the previous books in this series.
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Summary: Better and Better
Review: I follow a great many mystery/suspense/legal/thriller writers and as a consequence always have quite a few books waiting in the wings for my attention. No matter how long the queue, a new JD Robb always moves to the front of the line. She has yet to disappoint me.Roarke and Dallas move to new levels in Betrayal. Dallas is finding out what it means to be friend, lover and wife. (If you want some fun, try reading her out loud - my dog loves Eve, especially when she's on a rant.) Who will ever forget the ice-cream-commiseration with poor Peabody? And, by the by, Peabody and McNab are getting to be pretty hot, too. I really loved the storyline - one thing about the villians in these stories, you really want them to get theirs in the end. Seeing Roarke as the one all wound up this time was a nice change, and it's nice to see Eve's learning to manage him. My only disappointment in this book - and it's been said before - was that Mr. Yost didn't meet a more fitting end, like making some new friends in prison! I would hope we could see more of Agent Stowe in the future. She seems to be a promising contact in the Bureau, and she's smart enough to work her way into Eve's circle of friends with Nadine, Dr Mira and Mavis. Keep 'em coming, Ms Roberts! Always a pleasure!
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Summary: Jump start your marriage.
Review: When I think of husband/wife sleuths I recall Dashiell Hammett's Nick and Nora Charles (The Thin Man) and television's Hart's- Hart to Hart (Robert Wagner and Stephanie Powers), and Rock Hudson and Susan St. James (MacMillian and Wife). Now come J D Robb's Dallas and Roarke in Betrayal in Death. Forgive me for comparing Robb's wonderful book to three TV programs (The Thin Man later became a TV series) my point is we all seem to love the husband and wife teams. Husband/wife tandems offer us something that no other duo can offer us. A rich back-story based on an intimate relationship. Robb gives us this simmering and growing charismatic relationship both in this and in her previous stories featuring these characters. No need for me to repeat the premise of J D Robb's Betrayal in Death. Preceding reviewers have sufficiently covered that ground. For me the true story is in the relationship between Dallas and Roarke just as it was for Nick and Nora, Hart and Hart, and etc. Has your marriage been a little boring lately? Then escape into the exhilarating world of Dallas and Roarke and read Betrayal of Death. (By the way this is the only marital advice that I am going to offer so please don't email me with any questions regarding your love life.)
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Summary: A bit disappointed-- with spoilers
Review: I really love her books, and the characters in this series are wonderful. So don't get me wrong, I'm usually a big fan of this series. But. . . the ending was a big let down. The bad guy was horrible. Really deserved to get it big time. And then when he was caught so easily in the end, I thought, oh no! Just wait, he'll get away and come back after Eve and Roarke and all hell is going to break loose! But no. He was just caught. The end. And the whole story thread with Roarke being his target was completely dropped. I thought that Roarke would tear him apart when he tried for him. Or Eve would. But Eve and Roarke never even knew that he was a target. And Dr. Mira's grand-child. I thought that Eve would have some sort of thoughts about children in regard to herself. Even if the thoughts were "no flippin way!" But it was never mentioned again. I was pretty disappointed over all.
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