FFB Review: Seduction In Death: Eve Dallas Mysteries by J. D. Robb

It is June in the year 2059 as the 13th book in this series, Seduction In Death: Eve Dallas Mysteries by J. D. Robb begins. The latest potential crime scene is a New York city sidewalk where a body rests face down. At least, what is left of the person as the woman came down from high up the apartment tower. She could have fallen. She could have jumped. She could have been pushed. Hard to know anything at this point beyond the fact that she is very much dead.

What happened is the first order of business for Lieutenant Eve Dallas of the New York Police and Security Division and her team. Maybe there was a positive thing about being up and awake at nearly three am thanks to yet another childhood induced nightmare. Her sleep had not been interrupted by the call from dispatch.

Not only does Dallas and her aide, Peabody, have a witness from the building who saw the woman come crashing down, it is clear from the apartment that the formerly alive Bryna Bankhead was not alone in the moments before she died. Those facts, along with the fact that, according to the testing on scene, she died approximately 15 minutes before she was thrown away off the balcony means that Lieutenant Dallas is sure that it was a murder.

What follows is a complicated tale of lust, greed, and the need of some to play god with human lives just because they can. The year is 2059 and guns are outlawed, but folks still want to kill, and do so because they can and don’t value the lives of others. The technology is wonderful, but for many humans, the world is just as sick and screwed up as it is in this time.

As always, the read is graphic at times in terms of sex and crime scenes. The usual head hopping through multiple characters, often in the same paragraph, still happens. As also happens, this reader got swept along in the world of the complicated story and the story telling flaws fell away.

Another fun read in a very long running series.

 

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

Betrayal in Death: Eve Dallas Mysteries by J. D. Robb (Book 12) April 2022 

 

 

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

 

Kevin R. Tipple ©2022