Series: #14 in Eve Dallas series
Genre: Romantic Suspense
Publication Date: 2002
Pages: 371
Challenges: TBR 2009 Challenge Alternate #7
This series is a bit of brain candy for me. I’ve never read any of Nora Roberts other books, but I enjoy this series she writes under the J.D Robb name. I like the combination of Police Procedural, Romance, with a bit of Science Fiction tossed into the mix.
It’s primarily a police investigation and chase story. The setting in 2059 New York is far enough in the future for some fun stuff like off-planet travel, droids and flying cars. The romance between Lieutenant Eve Dallas and her too-sexy to be true husband, the ridiculously wealthy Roarke is over the top, but in this series the story always gets back to catching the bad guy. The humorous comments from Eve’s aide Peabody gets funnier and funnier with every book in the series. This time around we get to meet Peabody’s “Free-Ager” parents. The relationship between these hippie commune types and their cop daughter was fun to see developed a bit further. As usual, the cast of regulars is there in all their craziness.
The killer this time is a woman Eve was instrumental in sending to prison ten years ago. She’s out now and has gone right back to her murdering ways. She’s after revenge and has her killers eye trained on Eve’s husband.
As usual it was a fun bit of entertainment. One of those series that I come back to about once a year or so.
Rating 3/5
Genre: Romantic Suspense
Publication Date: 2002
Pages: 371
Challenges: TBR 2009 Challenge Alternate #7
This series is a bit of brain candy for me. I’ve never read any of Nora Roberts other books, but I enjoy this series she writes under the J.D Robb name. I like the combination of Police Procedural, Romance, with a bit of Science Fiction tossed into the mix.
It’s primarily a police investigation and chase story. The setting in 2059 New York is far enough in the future for some fun stuff like off-planet travel, droids and flying cars. The romance between Lieutenant Eve Dallas and her too-sexy to be true husband, the ridiculously wealthy Roarke is over the top, but in this series the story always gets back to catching the bad guy. The humorous comments from Eve’s aide Peabody gets funnier and funnier with every book in the series. This time around we get to meet Peabody’s “Free-Ager” parents. The relationship between these hippie commune types and their cop daughter was fun to see developed a bit further. As usual, the cast of regulars is there in all their craziness.
The killer this time is a woman Eve was instrumental in sending to prison ten years ago. She’s out now and has gone right back to her murdering ways. She’s after revenge and has her killers eye trained on Eve’s husband.
As usual it was a fun bit of entertainment. One of those series that I come back to about once a year or so.
Rating 3/5
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