With SALVATION IN DEATH J.D. Robb delivers another
fast-paced addition to the ever evolving "In Death" series.
I know fans of Robb have been eagerly awaiting the release
of her newest book. What I wonder is... what are they
hoping the book
reveals? Do they want to see more of Eve and Roarke's
relationship, the
working relationship between Eve and Peabody, Eve's
adversarial relationship
with Sommerset, or last but certainly not least do they just
want a straight
police procedural where the reader is given enough hints to
be able to solve
the crime?
SALVATION IN DEATH opens with a catholic priest poisoned and
dying
during the celebration of a funeral mass. It's up to Eve to
discover the
identity of the killer and make him or her pay for the
crime. When a television
evangelist dies by the same method Eve must figure out
whether or not
it's the same murderer or a copycat. And the race begins.
How many will be dead before Eve
successfully puts the killer away?
Overall, I personally believe the "In Death" series is an
interesting enjoyable
read, and each book continues to bring the characters
forward in their
interpersonal relationships. However, SALVATION IN DEATH
seemed a little too
easy to me. I didn't feel the anguish that I normally feel
when Eve is working a case.
Taking Eve into a religious arena was definitely a place
where she
wouldn't have been comfortable, but the intensity of her
uneasiness in having
to work through the rituals and traditions of religion was
not what I was
expecting, and I feel an opportunity to present a new side
of Eve was missed.
As a reader who loves the interpersonal relationships Robb
has developed between Eve and the very extensive cast of
supporting
characters, I was dismayed with the lack of Eve's growth as
a friend. For me when I know that a new Robb is coming these
relationships are what I look for along with a new
interesting and twisting case. SALVATION IN DEATH delivered
an intriguing case and solution but left me wanting more
development between the "In Death" ensemble cast.
In the year 2060, sophisticated investigative tools can
help catch a killer. But there are some questions even the
most advanced technologies cannot answer.
Ridley
Pearson has praised J. D. Robb's suspense as "taut" and
"nerve-jangling." Her latest thriller sets a new standard
for suspense, as the priest at a Catholic funeral mass
brings the chalice to his lips—and falls over dead.
When Detective Lieutenant Eve Dallas confirms that the
consecrated wine contained potassium cyanide, she's
determined to solve the murder of Father Miguel Flores,
despite her discomfort with her surroundings. It's not the
bodegas and pawnshops of East Harlem that bother her, though
the neighborhood is a long way from the stone mansion she
shares with her billionaire husband, Roarke. It's all that
holiness flying around at St. Christobal's that makes her
uneasy.
A search of the victim's sparsely furnished
room reveals little—except for a carefully hidden religious
medal with a mysterious inscription, and a couple of
underlined Bible passages. The autopsy reveals more: faint
scars of knife wounds, a removed tattoo—and evidence of
plastic surgery, suggesting that "Father Flores" may not
have been the man his parishioners had thought. Now, as Eve
pieces together clues that hint at gang connections and a
deeply personal act of revenge, she believes she's making
progress on the case. Until a second murder—in front of an
even larger crowd of worshipers—knocks the whole
investigation sideways. And Eve is left to figure out who
committed these unholy acts—and why.
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