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Prominent business man Thomas Anders is found murdered in his Park Avenue apartment with a black velvet rope tied around his throat. It’s a scene most screen vids need an X rating for, but for Lieutenant Eve Dallas this crime just feels off. It’s almost too perfect and too produced to be real. Stranger’s in Death is the 26th installment of this amazing series, the first of which is Naked in Death. J.D. Robb continues to amaze me with how she can create these flawed characters so beautifully. Eve Dallas is full of integrity, a passion for justice, and more love than she knows what to do with. She stands for the dead and all those she loves. Her relationship with her husband Roarke is honest, dependable, and always entertaining. Robb has written two incredibly strong characters who soften at the sight of their one and only, but it doesn’t feel forced. The reality of their feelings is apparent with every interaction. Robb has the knack for wrapping you up in how she tells the story. It could be edge of your seat excitement causing your heart to skip a beat as you turn the page, or it could be slow and meandering as it was with Strangers in Death. Even though the plot read slowly, it was meant to. Robb is one of the very few authors that I know of who can make the way a book is written be a part of the plot. After twenty six books Robb is still writing amazing thrillers and far more amazing characters. Eve Dallas and her extended family will forever be a part of mine.
Reviewed by Merry |
STRANGERS IN DEATH
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