It is a boring day as New York to
Dallas by J.D. Robb begins and she has a mountain of paperwork to get
through as the boss. She has budgets, expense reports, and other things to
grind through, including the horrible choir of the evaluations of the men and
women under her command. It is a hideously hot Summer of 2060 and the brutal
heat will not end nor will the paperwork. She wants a good murder to take her
way from all the crap.
Be careful what you wish for.
A very upset Tray Schuster shows up
Dallas’ desk. He says that some guy has his girlfriend, Julie, and told him to
get Dallas and be back in an hour or Julie would be dead. When he says where
they live, Dallas grabs Detective Peabody and several other members of his team
and heads for the location. She knows that the man known as “The Collector” has
to be back and is again doing horrible things.
Isacc McQueen should have been sent to
an off-planet prison. Instead, he got life sentence at Rikers. Dallas soon
learns that McQueen escaped from Rikers after killing a nurse in the infirmary
there. Prison administration kept the escape quiet and buried and did not warn
anyone.
Dealing with what that prison
administration did is a later problem. She and her team have to find McQueen
and stop him. Like any good psycho, that won’t be easy. Especially as they have
a history that goes back twelve years to when she was a rookie and caught him.
He, of course, wants to play first and make her suffer before ending her life.
What follows is an intense, for this series, read that results in Dallas having to pursue him to Dallas, Texas, and means that she again will have to confront various aspects of her past. Thankfully, Roarke and her team will be with her every step of the way.
New York to Dallas is the 33rd
book and another pleasant diversion from the real world.
My reading copy came by way of the
Overdrive/Libby App and the Dallas Public Library System.
Kevin R. Tipple © 2023
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