FFB Review: Thankless in Death: In Death Series by J.D. Robb

 

It is coming up on Thanksgiving in 2060 and Eve Dallas is about to have a house full of family and friends as Thankless in Death by J. D. Robb begins.  She isn’t thrilled with the prospect as her nature is of a loner. But, Roarke is changing her slowly and surely as marriage and an extended family that loves her work their magic.

 

Jerald Reinhold was also loved by his parents. Despite all their efforts over the many years, something was off since birth. There were incidents that occurred and were dealt with at the time, but nothing really changed. It has manifested in the here and now in his brutally murdering his parents, stealing their cash and some of their valuable possessions, and fleeing the scene. That same murder scene that Lieutenant Eve Dallas and Detective Peabody of the New York Police and Security are soon working.

 

It isn’t long before they are sure Jerald did the killings. It also isn’t long before they realize that Jerald isn’t done. Not by a long shot. Murdering his parents uncorked something suppressed in him and he is enjoying settling old scores. They have to figure out who he wishes to get even with first to stop him. The list is long as this man holds a grudge over anything and everything. That means they have to also not only figure out who is on the list, but who might take priority.

 

That isn’t easy in Thankless in Death by J.D. Robb. While the chase for the escalating killer, Jerald Reinhold, is the main case, many other things are happening in the read as secondary characters continue to change and evolve.  So too does Dallas as old ghosts are continuing to be laid to rest. Slowly and surely she now she sees the world beyond the job. That fullness of life, and her acceptance of it as she finds her place, is on an ongoing secondary them here as it has been in the last several reads.

 

Thankless in Death is another fun read in a series that should be read in order starting with first, Naked in Death.

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My hardback reading copy came from the branch we frequent, Lochwood, of the Dallas Public Library System.

 

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