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

It is said that art imitates real life. The reverse can also be true and is in Dark in Death by J.D. Robb. For Chanel Ryan, watching the classic movie, Psycho, with her friend should have been a fun night. It was until somebody seated behind her rammed an ice pick into the back of her neck during the classic shower scene.

When Lola Kawaski sat back down next to her and tried to explain why she had to leave, she soon realized that Chanel was dead. Lola’s screams shut down the movie. The authorities of the various agencies that responded includes Lieutenant Eve Dallas of the New York Police and Security Division on this brutally cold night of Feb 2061.

Dallas has just started with the body when Detective Peabody arrives. Between the two of them they quickly figure out that the crime scene was ruined by people trying to help the victim, that nobody saw a thing, and probably the killer created a distraction to get Lola out of the way. Once Lola was out of her seat and elsewhere, the killer did the deed, and later walked out in a crowd leaving one of the many other screens in place.

In short, they don’t have much of anything until Nadine Furst brings her Blaine Delano. Ms. DeLano. The woman and mom writes a series of crime fiction novels. Not only does the crime Dallas is working fit what DeLano wrote in a book, it isn’t first fictional murder to be copied. DeLano is sure that somebody is using her books as an outline to kill. By the time she gets through being interviewed by Dallas and Peabody, they thing that she is very likely correct.

This opens up another totally avenue of investigation and the team is off and running. What follows is an intriguing chase as Dallas, Peabody, and others close in on a killer who is tackling fiction and rewrite the works to suit her tastes.

Another fun read in the series and worth your time.

 

 

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My Large Print hardback came from the Audelia Road Branch of the Dallas Public Library System.

 

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