Friday, April 29, 2022

FFB Review: Betrayal in Death: Eve Dallas Mysteries by J. D. Robb


It is May 2059 as Betrayal in Death: Eve Dallas Mysteries by J.D. Robb begins and Lieutenant Eve Dallas of the New York Police and Security Department is dressed to impress and attending an event in a hotel ballroom. Nearly six hundred million dollars worth of art, jewelry, and memorabilia connected to the legendary actress Magda Lane is on display. The point of the massive display is that items from it will be soon auctioned off.  Security and everything involved with the event is being done through one of Roarke’s many companies as he has known Magda Lane going back years. It also means that his is an important social event with a lot of coverage. That means it is important for Dallas, aka Mrs. Roarke, to attend in a non-police capacity.

 

Despite her misgivings and her long-standing hatred of such deals, Dallas is enjoying herself until Roarke tells her of a death on the 46 floor in the south tower of his hotel.

 

22-year-old Darlene French is dead in a room checked out to a James Priory from Milwaukee. She was a housekeeper at the Roarke Palace Hotel and weas liked by everyone. Savagely beaten, then raped, she then was strangulated to death by a wire around the neck. From looking at security discs it appears it took the killer only thirty-two minutes to beat, rape, and kill Darlene French. Not only was he fast, he also cleaned up and left leaving very little behind of his presence other than the images on the security discs and the dead body on the bed.

 

It is also soon becomes clear that this killing was not his first.

 

What follows is a highly entertaining read as Dallas and her team chase a killer and are dealt numerous obstacles along the way. As almost aways in this series, there are links to Roarke and his criminal past of long before he met Dallas as well as links to Dallas’ abusive childhood. Of course, even with this being the twelfth book of the series, there are still abrupt head hopping POV shifts in paragraphs. Murders and sexual encounters are graphic as one expects in the series.

 

Once again, after a while, the reader stops noticing the flaws in construction and is soon turning the pages lost in the story. Which is proof, as many would argue, that the story can often outweigh the sentence construction errors along the way. The twelfth book in the long running series, Betrayal in Death: Eve Dallas Mysteries by J.D. Robb, is a fun and highly entertaining read.

 

 

The series to this point and my reviews:

Naked in Death: Eve Dallas Mysteries (Book 1) March 2021

Glory in Death: Eve Dallas Mysteries (Book 2) April 2021

Immortal in Death: Eve Dallas Mysteries (Book 3) May 2021

Rapture in Death: Eve Dallas Mysteries (Book 4) June 2021

Ceremony in Death: Eve Dallas Mysteries (Book 5) July 2021

Vengeance in Death: Eve Dallas Mysteries (Book 6) September 2021

Holiday in Death: Eve Dallas Mysteries (Book 7) October 2021

Conspiracy in Death: Eve Dallas Mysteries (Book 8) October 2021

Loyalty in Death: Eve Dallas Mysteries (Book 9)

Witness in Death: Eve Dallas Mysteries (Book 10) March 2022

Judgement in Death: Eve Dallas Mysteries (Book 11) April 2022

 

 

 

 

My reading copy came from the Dallas Public Library System through the Overdrive/Libby app.


 

Kevin R. Tipple ©2022

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