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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