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

It is the summer of 2059 as Reunion in Death by J.D. Robb begins and Lieutenant Eve Dallas of the New York Police and Security Department is returning to work after a sumptuous two weeks of vacation. Roarke and Dallas have just spent a week in Mexico at a villa and a week on a private island. The food, sun, and surf, as well as time with each other was exactly what she needed. Especially after various serious events in recent books.

Things are quiet on her first day back. Thanks to her assistant, Peabody, who has caught up all the paperwork, Dallas has time to go through multiple unsolved cases. One of which is the case regarding Marsha Stibbs who was found dead in her tub at home by her husband, Boyd Stibbs, when he returned from an out-of-town trip. In addition to the fact that she had a fracture skull, she had not drowned as there was no water in her lungs.

After an initial reinterview of the husband, who is now remarried and has a young child, and some thinking about it, Dallas assigns Peabody the case and tells her to run with it. It is time, since Peabody knows Dallas’s methods by now, that she gives her a case of her own to work. She will work it on her down time when she isn’t working their new case with Dallas.

The new case is the murder of the very wealthy sixty-year-old man, Walter C. Pettibone who died during his own birthday party. Hos wealth did nothing for him after he drank alcohol laced with cyanide. The drink was handed to him by a young woman who was dressed as one of the catering staff. She wasn’t.

Who she is slowly becomes clear to Dallas and her team. The woman is young, attractive, and very much a cold-blooded killer. She has done this before. She is back and killing again and will continue to do so unless Eve Dallas and her team can stop her. They better as she wants to kill Roarke too.

Fourteen books in and Roarke is once again a major target. He is also around to again do some off the book stuff as well as throw money and influence where it is needed. Proving again that the wealthy are far different from you and I in so many ways.

All the usual caveats apply in terms of graphic and detailed sexual situations, head hopping shifts of point of view, and all the rest of it. As always, this series is not one to take too seriously. These books are a fun way to cleanse the mind and Reunion in Death is another example.

 

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) January 2022

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

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

Betrayal in Death: Eve Dallas Mysteries  (Book 12) April 2022

Seduction in Death: Eve Dallas Mysteries (Book 13) June 2022

 

 

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

 

Kevin R. Tipple ©2022