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

Treachery in Death by J.D. Robb opens with the murder of a shop owner before delving into a complicated case of police corruption. After winding up a case, Detective Peabody is alone in a little used bathroom at police headquarters when two people barge in. She is naked, having just had a shower, and far from her weapon as two officers come in and have a heated argument. Peabody realizes as she listens that the officers are corrupt and that is in deadly danger if they find her.

Eventually they leave, and Peabody is able to get dressed and get McNab, a fellow officer with whom she is living with, and they go to Dallas’s house to tell her what happened. Even though she is badly shaken, Peabody knows the best course of action is to tell Dallas and she does. With what Peabody learned, it isn’t too hard to identify the two officers and a possible murder scene.

Dallas and Roarke go checkout the possible murder scene and they find a body. A known junkie is very much dead. The scene is set up to be setup to be perceived as an overdose. Dallas would probably have caught it being fake anyway, if she had caught the case, but with Peabody telling her how the two she overheard were involved in the murder, Dallas knows that they have rot in the department.

You don’t tarnish the badge. You especially don’t when you come from a family that is legendary in the NYSPD. One of the officers did just that and Dallas plans on taking that person and everyone else involved down hard.

What follows is a complicated and fast-moving tale with Dallas determined to take down the two corrupt officers she knows about, thanks to Peabody, as well as the rest of the criminals involved. The rot extends to various departments. Once all are caught, the ramifications to the rest of the department and the legal system will be huge.

Another good one in the series that pulls you into the world of 2060 and reminds the reader that greed kills.

 

 

My reading copy came by way of the Libby App and the Dallas Public Library System.

 

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