It is the summer 2059 as Imitation
in Death by J.D. Robb begins and the September heat is just as bad as August
was. It is too hot, even for sex work, as Jacie Wooton has found out in recent
days. She is a licensed companion and longs for her recent past where she had
the same job, but better clients as they were rich and lonely. She has a plan
to stay clean, be professional, and get back where she belongs in six months.
Her plan did not involve being murdered by a psycho.
But, that is what happened. She is very
much dead and her case is the latest for NYPSD Lieutenant Eve Dallas. Jacie
Wooton had her throat slit by somebody in the alley. The crime scene is blood
bath. Much of that is due to what he did to her afterwards. If there was any
mercy, she never felt it. The scene is so bad that even Peabody is shaken to
the core and spends some time losing whatever was in her stomach. She is not
alone as at least two other officers are going through the same thing.
Dallas got through the scene and thus
found the note on the body personally addressed to her. The note used a fancy
font on expensive paper and is a calling card taunt by a killer who sees it all
as an elaborate game.
A
sick and very twisted game where he begins duplicating famous serial killers
across history. With each one, he dares Lieutenant Dallas to catch him. While
she sees the end game as he envisions it playing out as well as a couple of
possible potential kills if he continues the patter, she can’t figure out who
he is or where he will strike next. Identifying the killer and stopping him is
going to take a team effort.
Book 17 of the long running series has
all the usual flaws of the previous books. It also again plays with the idea
that a killer is working his way to the ultimate prize of killing Dallas. At
the same time, though we have seen it all before, the read is fun and well worth
your time.
My reading copy came by way of the
Libby/OverDrive app and the Dallas Public Library System.
Kevin R. Tipple ©2022
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4 comments:
Kevin, I feel we all need an author of series to fall back on when we need to cleanse our literary palate. I'm glad you found yours with the Eve Dallas series.
They seem to work for me. There are a lot of them too. lol
Today is release date for Desperation in Death, the 55th in the series. You'll be okay for a palate cleanser for a while.
And today, 9/6/2022, you have a review of it up on your blog.
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