Thankless in Death: In Death, Book 37 Author: | Language: English | ISBN:
B00EKOCB0E | Format: PDF
Thankless in Death: In Death, Book 37 Description
The year 2060 is drawing to a close, and Thanksgiving is just around the corner. It's a time for loved ones to come together. But sometimes the deepest hatreds seethe within the closest relationships, and blood flows faster than water....
For Lieutenant Eve Dallas of the NYPSD, the job is a useful reminder of what she has to be grateful for this season. Hosting Roarke's big Irish family for the holiday may be challenging, but it's a joyful improvement on her own dark childhood.
Other couples aren't as lucky as Eve and Roarke. The Reinholds, for example, are lying on the floor of their Downing Street apartment, stabbed and bludgeoned almost beyond recognition. Those who knew them are stunned - and even more heartbroken by the overwhelming evidence that they were murdered by their own son. Twenty-six-year-old Jerry hadn't exactly made a good impression on all the bosses who fired him or the girlfriend who dumped him - but they didn't think he was capable of this.
Turns out Jerry is not only capable of brutality but taking a liking to it. With the money he's stolen from his parents, and a long list of grievances, he intends to finally make his mark on the world. Eve and her team already know the who, how, and why of this murder. What they need to pinpoint is where Jerry's going to strike next.
- Audible Audio Edition
- Listening Length: 13 hours and 22 minutes
- Program Type: Audiobook
- Version: Unabridged
- Publisher: Brilliance Audio
- Audible.com Release Date: September 17, 2013
- Whispersync for Voice: Ready
- Language: English
- ASIN: B00EKOCB0E
I adore J.D. Robb/Nora's books and have been a loyal fan of this series from the beginning. I've loved all the previous books, although I felt the book right before this one was lacking sparks. I was shocked and very disappointed by this latest installment. The main focus is on the atrocities committed by the murderer and there is far too much from his point-of-view and far too much detail given to the grisly, brutal torture of his victims. After the 3rd murder, I honestly couldn't stomach reading the rest in detail, it made me feel physically ill. I ended up skimming to read about Eve and Roarke -- and yet found that part of the story oddly bland. Roarke came across as a "cardboard cutout" of himself, with none of his usual charisma. Even the love scenes felt recycled from other books, and seemed to be dropped in as an obligatory element rather than woven into the main thread. I am usually pleasantly surprised at how fresh and fun Robb/Roberts continues to make the sexual relationship between Eve & Roarke after so many books. Not in this one. Our beloved secondary characters also continue to be mostly missing in action, like in the previous book.
As other reviewers have stated, this doesn't even read like Robb/Roberts wrote it. Being a Thanksgiving themed novel, I expected to get a larger dose of our favorite couple's family life, but that didn't happen. I've been looking forward to this for months and I am just sad at this outcome. Unlike so many authors, Robb/Roberts very rarely lets me down.
"Treachery in Death" and "New York to Dallas" were such wonderful installments in this series, focusing so much on Eve and Roarke and their journey, and now I'm wondering about the ghostwriting speculation myself.
Jerald Reinhold wakes one day and kills his mother and father. From there it's a race against time for Eve and the rest of the police department to track him down before he strikes again.
We do get some welcome levity with Eve and Roarke in response to Roarke's family from Ireland coming in for a visit for the Thanksgiving holiday. This really is the first "In Death" novel that shows Eve and Roarke celebrating that holiday and we get a welcome look into New York at that time of year (2060). We also get Eve and Roarke celebrating with friends such as Peabody, McNabb, and Morris.
We also have the welcome appearance from a couple we have not heard or seen from since Survivor In Death which also allowed us an update into several other characters. I have to say that I never really thought of some of the characters from prior novels that Eve ended up saving and meeting and what happens to them later after the novel concludes. Hopefully J.D. Robb including an update on these characters is something that occurs in subsequent novels. We don't need the characters to show up but it would be nice to have some sort of throwaway lines so we can just know what did happen to those characters.
One thing I do love is that we do get some interaction with fan favorites Trueheart and Baxter. We also get to see Dallas be more of a Lieutenant in this one. We usually only have Eve investigating murders and once in a while an aside is thrown on how she is reviewing expense reports or some such thing. In this one we have her interacting with her squad a lot more and it was a very nice change.
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