Twice a year, J.D. Robb (really Nora Roberts writing under a pen name) releases a new book in her In Death series. STOLEN IN DEATH is the 62nd book featuring Homicide Lieutenant Eve Dallas and her gazillionaire husband, Roarke. Each book begins with a murder and follows Eve as she locates and apprehends the perpetrator along with her partner Peabody, the bullpen of detectives, electronic and forensic science experts, and former thief now civilian consultant, Roarke.
I guess you could read any of the books as a standalone, futuristic police mystery, but you would miss the amazing character development and backstories that developed through the thirty years that the series has been running.
While attending a black- tie gala, Dallas is alerted to the murder of a prominent businessman. Someone bashed Nathan Barrister in the head during a home burglary, leaving a grieving family, a multibillion-dollar delivery company, and a secret vault full of stolen jewels and art. Missing from the vault is a set of emerald and diamond jewelry stolen from the Tate Gallery in London decades ago. Links emerge to Roarke’s past, including the re-emergence of an old lover (last seen in the series about forty books ago). Eve uses her experience and team of detectives to solve the case and bring all the guilty to justice. Fabulous story with all the good twists, turns, emotions, and snark you expect from the series. If I could only read one series ever again, this would be it. Now the six-month wait for the next book begins. Sigh.
Eve Dallas stumbles into a mind-boggling case after a controversial billionaire is found murdered while surrounded by priceless art. But as Eve pieces together the scene, a dark secret comes to light in J.D. Robb's latest thriller.
A violent death and a vault of stolen treasures has Eve Dallas struggling to solve crimes old and new in the next thriller in the #1 New York Times-bestselling series.
A blow to the head with a block of amethyst has left multibillionaire Nathan Barrister dead—while nearby, a vault, its door ajar, sits filled with priceless paintings, jewelry, and other treasures. Lieutenant Eve Dallas’s husband, Roarke—who misspent his youth in Ireland as a scrappy thief—recognizes at least two stolen pieces among the hoard. The crime scene suggests a burglar caught in the act. But only one item seems to be missing.
Then it’s revealed that the vault had actually belonged to the victim’s late father—and no one in the household knew it was there until a recent remodeling project exposed it. To protect the family name and business, they explain to Eve, they’d been looking for a way to return the ill-gotten gains anonymously and avoid the police. But now the police are all over their elegant house, and have a bigger, bloodier mystery to solve.
By all accounts, Nathan Barrister was a good man, a generous employer, a devoted husband and father. As for his father—he clearly had secrets. Now it’s up to Eve and her team to find out if those secrets got Nathan killed—and if it was a crime of passion or revenge.
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