Betrayal in Death
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4.5 • 696 Ratings
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- $9.99
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- $9.99
Publisher Description
From #1 New York Times bestselling author Nora Roberts, writing as J.D. Robb, comes a new novel in the futuristic series…Detective Eve Dallas investigates a homicide on familiar grounds: her husband’s hotel—and finds herself up against a murderer with a passion for the finer things in life—and death…At the luxurious Roarke Palace Hotel, a maid walks into suite 4602 for the nightly turndown— and steps into her worst nightmare. A killer leaves her dead, strangled by a thin silver wire. He’s Sly Yost, a virtuoso of music and murder. A hit man for the elite. Lieutenant Eve Dallas knows him well. But in this twisted case, knowing the killer doesn’t help solve the crime. Because there’s someone else involved. Someone with a more personal motive. And Eve must face a terrifying possibility—that the real target may, in fact, be her husband Roarke…
PUBLISHERS WEEKLY
This 12th installment in Robb's (aka Nora Roberts) popular and critically praised futuristic cop series, set in the year 2059, finds Lt. Eve Dallas butting heads with the FBI in a race to take down a hired killer who appears to be targeting the employees of her wealthy hotelier husband, Roarke. Adding to Eve's suspicions is the sudden and unexpected visit by one of Roarke's boyhood chums from Dublin a shady character named Mick Connelly who used to run with Roarke when they were petty thieves and con men shortly after the first murder. Eve knows Mick is not the killer; in fact, she's tussled with the prime suspect, Sly Yost, before, and his signature modus operandi, what he would call "murder with class," is unmistakable. Sly's an anal sort with a taste for fine art, classical music, rape and strangulation by silver wire. But, master of disguise that he is, finding him is virtually impossible. Since the murders all take place at Roarke's hotel, Eve allows him to assist in the investigation, a stroke of creative genius on Robb's part that plays on the strengths that brought them together way back in book one (Naked in Death), and that serves to bring out Eve's softer side. So certain is Robb at maintaining an atmospheric setting for this well-paced and expertly rendered series, followers will feel as if they have gone home to the future.
Customer Reviews
Simply the best
This book is pure gold the whole way through, but the last 5 pages had me smiling and crying at the same time! Roarke and Dallas are simply the best!!!
Betrayal in Death
Actually a 5 star plot and prose. Minus 2 stars for not knowing where Cornwall, UK is located.
How does she do it?!
How does she do it? Roarke, Dallas, Peabody, MacNab, Feeney - the characters pepper her novels so that you care about them as individuals while you enjoy the ride she provides in yet another finely crafted novel. In this one, we know the sitch, and yet...they close in on the killer...oops, he escapes...they close in again...he escapes again...and with each page, I am hoping it doesn't end. Thank you JD. You are a master storyteller.