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

It is early 2061 and New York City is dealing with the ugliness of winter in Devoted in Death: In Death Series by J. D. Robb. In addition to the nasty weather, Lieutenant Dallas, and Detective Peabody of the NYPSD are dealing with the ugliness of murder. Dorian Kuper was murdered, wrapped in plastic, and dumped far from his upper west side address.

 

He was 28 and the first cellist for the Metropolitan Opera. He wasn’t just murdered. Somebody tortured him quite extensively before he died. Dallas thinks what was done to him was personal in nature and reflects that somebody was having fun. That is her speculation to Peabody at the scene as she evaluates the situation based on her experience.

 

She has no idea how close she is to what happened. It was fun for a pair of sadistic killers who got off, literally and figuratively, on torturing and killing folks. They have left a bloody, and before now, mostly unseen trail from Oklahoma to NYC.

 

A trail that will end here in NYC if Dallas, Peabody, and others can find them. They might save some lives too as the killers are not done.

 

What follows is another enjoyable installment in this police procedural series. It may be twenty plus years in future, but people are still people kill. Sometimes in self-defense, sometimes in accident, and other times, just like now, because they are sick and twisted idiots that should be permanently removed from the planet.

 

Book 41 of the series is another good one and well worth your time.

 

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

 

 

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