Random in Death: An Eve Dallas thriller (In Death 58)

Essa série é fantástica e esse não foge à regra. Nora é muito criativa. Sempre surpreendendo e nos maravilhando.

Eve was hoping for a quiet weekend off to spend with her husband Roarke when a call comes in taking her to Club Rock It where Avenue A is performing as they do each year to remember where they all started. The club is open that night to teens who pack the place.One of the teens is Jenna Harbough who is a 16-year-old aspiring songwriter and performer who is hoping to get a chance to slip lead singer Jake Kincaid a copy of her demo. She isn't expecting to feel a poke in her arm and to die just minutes later in Jake's arms.It looks like Jenna died of a drug overdose and it soon becomes apparent that the drugs were injected in her without her knowledge or consent. Investigations into her life don't reveal anyone known to her who might want her dead. The only clues on scene are some threads of fiber on a window in the mens' room and some scuff marks on the wall below the window.The next night 17-year-old Arlie Dillon is at an open-air battle of the bands when she feels what she things is a bee sting on her arm. She dies just a few minutes later despite attempts from her friends and the MTs to save her. It is the same poison mix as killed Jenna. And Eve has a serial killer who is picking his victims randomly to find and stop before he can kill again.Kiki Hernandez is almost the third victim when she feels an injection while she's at the premier of the latest blockbuster. But layers on her arms and a massive bruise where the killer tries to inject his poison causes her to make a commotion and send the killer running.This case is a definite police procedural. Eve and her team have to gather the tiny clues left behind and many eyewitness accounts from people who didn't really look at the killer before she can find him and stop him.This was another excellent episode in the long-running Eve Dallas series. I like the way she works with her team including especially Peabody and Jenkinson in this episode. I also like how characters from earlier series - Charles and Louise, Nadine Furst and Jake Kincaid, and Jamie and Quilla make important appearances in this episode.I love her relationship with Roarke. This time their conflict centers around him giving her some pocket money when she forgets to visit an ATM. It hurts her pride to accept and his pride when she tries to pay him back.Fans of the series won't want to miss this episode. I loved it so much I read it twice with just a few hours in between readings.

J.D. Robb's newest installment, Random in Death (#58 in the In Death series) is a crisper, more focused story than a few of the most recent novels in the series. I got tired of waiting for these sequels to arrive at the library, so I bought this one as soon as it came out.Robb (pseudonym of Nora Roberts) took great care to keep the plot focused on the victims and on Lt. Eve Dallas's pursuit of the murderer. The killer's motive was timely and believable - but elicits no sympathy.The tension of the high-pressure storyline is relieved when Dallas and Roarke pay a visit to the marvelous house being built by Peabody and Eve's longtime musical friend, Mavis. When Bella, Mavis' daughter, yells, "Das! Das!" and flings herself at the stoic, kid-averse Lieutenant as always, everyone reading Random in Death will smile. The plot wrap-up is as enjoyable as the story overall.My only issue with the In Death series is that I'd like to learn more about the Urban Wars, with a plotline connecting that past conflict with the present day. A little more detail could be added to make us feel that we are nearly 40 years in the future, rather than just a decade or so. I'm a science fiction lover and with a History B.A., so I'd like more stories that hit both these notes. Highly recommended.

I love these books. Have read them all. This one is about the 54th one. Each book has a different story but the same characters. Can't put it down. Looking forward to the next one

Fabulous book!