Name: Vengeance In Death
ISBN: 9780748121809

J. D. Robb

He is an expert with the latest technology...a madman with the mind of a genius and the heart of a killer. He quietly stalks his prey. Then he haunts the police with cryptic riddles about the crimes he is about to commit - always solved moments too late to save his victims' lives. Police lieutenant Eve Dallas finds the first victim butchered in his own home. The second loses his life in a vacant luxury apartment. The two men had little in common. Both suffered unspeakable torture before their deaths. And both had ties to an ugly secret of ten years past - a secret shared by none other than Eve's new husband, Roarke.

Vengeance In Death

Nora Roberts

Vengeance in Death

Elizabeth Clement

4.5 stars. This was a great addition to the series. I did find Roarke and especially Sommerset to be completely insufferable in this book. Both of them made a lot of stupid decisions.

Vengeance in Death (In Death)

Katrina White

I hope we start getting some plots where everything doesn't revolve around Roarke or that he owns everything. I know these were started in the 90s but I hope we start seeing some diversity  as well.

As is always my issue with these books, J.D. Robb manages to write a police procedural that ignores many police procedures. It is still a weird mix between cozy and procedural, more thriller-esque, but lays a reliable read.

This time around the mystery was a bit boring for me. I have never been a fan of the psycho killers driven by religion, mainly because I feel them to be overplayed in dramatic scenarios. They're more like 1% of killers but somehow we see them in literature and theatrical works more often than the people with one shot murders.

I don't like how Eve never truly faced issues with the department for supposedly being so close to the main suspect. It would have been nice to see a plot where she is pulled and has to work solely with Roarke, or we see thing falling apart as she loses her edge. Instead it's the same cookie cutter plot where baddie has it out for Roarke and he manages to fix everything for Eve with secret technology. I've resigned to accept that most of the plot points deal with Roark, as there is apparently more to draw on from his past and properties, but exploring Eve and her past, or giving her more than a one dimensional past, would be nice.

Anyways, my rant over, it was a good addition to the series, and I am curious to see more diverse characters and hopefully a different plot in the next installment.

Elaina Wells

Madi Van Houten

Prerana agrawal

The smell grew riper, thicker. She began to breathe through her teeth. She'd smelled violent death too many times to mistake it.' When New York homicide lieutenant Eve Dallas makes the gruesome discovery of a mutilated and dismembered body, the hunt is on to find an evil sadist. The murderer is close at hand; haunting Eve with cryptic riddles about his next crime - riddles that always leave her with too little, too late. But when the next butchered body is found, murder gets personal. Eve may be newly married but the honeymoon is well and truly over. New husband Roarke's ugly past is catching up with him, and his secret is the last vital clue in the search for a revengeful killer.

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