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Indulgence in Death

by J. D. Robb

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Series: In Death (31)

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Lt. Eve Dallas of the New York Police and Security Department returns home from vacation to a string of bizarre murders.
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  BooksInMirror | Feb 19, 2024 |
Eve gets involved in a murder investigation on her anniversary trip to Ireland with Roarke. Then, when she returns to New York, she gets called in for what seem to be random killings in semi-public places using odd weapons. Eve and her team quickly get involved in this complex case of rich guy, thrill kills. In fact, she is the ultimate target. I love the relationship between Eve and Roarke. It is a wonderful example of a romance growing and deepening as two characters really get to know each other. ( )
  kmartin802 | Feb 15, 2024 |
I've read quite a few books in this series but not necessarily in order. This is one of them that reading it out of order didn't really create too many issues with knowing something that will already happen etc. I do think that if you've read the series in order, you will better appreciate the relationship between Eve Dallas and Roarke and how it functions.

A trend I've noticed in the books from this series I've read recently is that Dallas focuses in on a suspect or suspects early on and then builds a case against them. (In earlier books, there was more focus on building the case and identifying the suspect from the evidence.) ( )
  JenniferRobb | Jun 25, 2023 |
Indulgence in Death
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Eve and her team investigate a series of murders in the which the victims are apparently chosen at random and killed using bizarre weapons à la the board game Clue.

This installment opens with Eve and Roarke visiting family in Ireland, and Eve literally stumbling into a murder investigation. While this sequence is entertaining (Eve's reactions to nature are priceless), it's contribution to the overall storyline is obscure. That said, the episode does add a great deal to Eve and Roarke's character development both as individuals and as a couple.

Although the explanations are similar to those in Seduction in Death, the New York case is, nevertheless, intense and exciting. The story had me turning pages late into the night as Eve figures out who is behind the crime, but struggles to find sufficient evidence to convict.

In sum, Robb delivers another excellent book in the In Death series, which must certainly be one of the longest in publication history. ( )
  Lauren2013 | May 5, 2023 |
This was one of the better ones. I enjoyed listening to this one again. ( )
  NickyM96 | Nov 21, 2022 |
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Thou shalt not covet; but tradition Approves all forms of competition.-Arthur Hugh Clough
It is the wretchedness of being rich that you have to live with rich people--Logan Pearsall Smith
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The road was a killer, hardly wider than a decent stream of spit and snaking like a cobra between giant bushes loaded with strange flowers that resembled drops of blood.
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When a murder disrupts the Irish vacation she is taking with her husband, Roarke, Eve realizes that no place is safe--not an Irish wood or the streets of the manic city she calls home. But nothing prepares her for what she discovers upon her return to the cop shop in New York City . . .
A driver for a top-of-the-line limousine service is found dead--shot through the neck with a crossbow. The car was booked by an executive at a venerable security company whose identity had been stolen. Days later, a stunning, high-priced escort is found killed at Coney Island, a bayonet stuck in her heart. And again, the trail leads to a CEO whose information has been hijacked.
With a method established but no motive to be found, Eve begins to fear that she has come across that most dangerous of criminals, a thrill killer, but one with a taste for the finer things in life--and death. Eve does not know where or when the next kill will be, or that her investigation will take her to the rarefied circle Roarke travels in--and into the perverted heart of madness . . .
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