Burt Minnock is one of 4 partners in the business
named U-Play. A small startup high tech computer company, they are working on cutting
edge computer and gaming technologies. He loves the classic Star Wars movies
and loves technology. He especially loves gaming. It is the year 2060 and he is
wealthy and a three-level home. One level is a hologram room where he can run his
own hologram program and try out video games. That includes his latest company
project. It is also the locked room he will be found dead in hours later in Fantasy
in Death by J. D. Robb.
As it happens, Lieutenant Eve Dallas and Detective
Peabody get the case. Murder by way of hologram video game is a new one and
sure to shock jaded New Yorkers once the news gets out in the media. As it also
happens, Roarke knows Minnock and his partners. While he doesn’t own the
company, but he gave them business advice, and liked Minnock a lot.
Like Dallas, he takes the murder personally for his
own reasons, and helps her and her team work the case. In this instance, a game
was used to kill, despite all the safeguards. That means that if it happened
once, it could happen again.
Fantasy in Death is the 30th installment in the series and is a good one. All the usual caveats apply. One notes again that having wealth and success does not immune one in this series from dying the hard way.
My reading copy in eBook format came from the Dallas
Public Library System through the Overdrive/Libby app.
Kevin R. Tipple © 2023
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