Book Review for Passions in Death by J.D. Robb

 In Death #59

Passions in Death by J.D. Robb

Published:  September 3, 2024 by St. Martin’s Press

Genre:  Mystery, Romantic Suspense

Taken from Goodreads:  Homicide Detective Eve Dallas hunts a killer who turns a wedding party into a murder scene in the latest novel by the #1 New York Times bestselling author, J.D. Robb.

On a hot August night, Lt. Eve Dallas and her husband, Roarke, speed through the streets of Manhattan to the Down and Dirty club, where a joyful, boisterous pre-wedding girls’ night out has turned into a murder scene. One of the brides lies in a pool of blood, garroted in a private room where she was preparing a surprise for her fiancée—two scrimped and saved-for tickets to Hawaii.

Despite the dozens of people present, useful witnesses are hard to come by. It all brings back some bad memories for Eve. In her uniform days, she’d suffered an assault in the very same room—but she’d been able to fight back and survive. She’d gotten justice. And now she needs to provide some for poor young Erin.

Eve knows that the level of violence and the apparent premeditation involved suggest a volatile mix of hidden, heated passion and ice-cold calculation. This is a crime that can be countered only by hard detective work and relentless dedication—and Eve will not stop until she finds the killer who destroyed this couple’s dreams before the honeymoon even began…

 

My Thoughts:  Eve and Roarke have become comfortable characters for me.    Each time I pick up an In Death book I feel like I am coming home.  I know that with each story, Eve will be solving a horrific crime, Roarke will be working along side her offering her support and his brain.  For me, this series is like coming home, a comfort book, and something I look forward to.

Passions in Death had everything I love in a murder mystery book.   There are the suspects in the crime, the unveiling of the clues, and of course the final solving.    I enjoyed it all the way through my reading.   I love that this is set in the future, although that future is coming closer to the current times, and that Eve’s ways of solving are similar to the techniques of today. 

There were a few times I felt like the storyline dragging, that the clues were already given and it was time to move forward but mostly I enjoyed the entire book!  I could not wait to read more.  Passions in Death is a great addition to the  In Death Series by J.D. Robb. 

Thank you St. Martin’s Press for a copy of the book in exchange for my honest review.

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Meet J.D. Robb(taken from her website):  With a phenomenal career full of bestsellers, Nora Roberts was ready for a new writing challenge. As her agent put it, like Pepsi, Diet Pepsi, and caffeine-free Pepsi, a pseudonym offered her the opportunity to reach a new and different group of readers. The first futuristic suspense J. D. Robb book, Naked in Death, was published in paperback in 1995, and readers were immediately drawn to Eve Dallas, a tough cop with a dark past, and her even more mysterious love interest, Roarke.

The series quickly gained attention, great reviews, and devoted readers. Since the debut of Loyalty in Death (the ninth In Death book) on Halloween 1999 on the New York Times bestseller list, every J. D. Robb title has been a New York Times bestseller. While fans had their suspicions, it wasn’t until the twelfth book in the series, Betrayal in Death (2001), that the publisher fully revealed that J. D. Robb was a pseudonym for bestselling powerhouse Nora Roberts. Unmasked, Nora Roberts fans who hadn’t yet picked up one of the Robb books were quickly playing catch-up.

Robb’s peers in the mystery world are fans as well, with accolades for the In Death series from such blockbuster authors as Stephen King, Jonathan Kellerman, Dennis Lehane, Kathy Reichs, Lisa Scottoline, Janet Evanovich, David Baldacci, Harlan Coben, Robert B. Parker, Ridley Pearson, Linda Fairstein, and Andrew Gross.

The In Death books are perpetual bestsellers, and frequently share the bestseller list with other Nora Roberts novels. J. D. Robb publishes two hardcover In Death books per year, with the occasional stand-alone original In Death story featured in an anthology.

Forty books later, there is no end in sight for the ever-popular In Death series.