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

It is May 2061 as Shadows in Death: In Death Series by J.D. Robb begins and another murder has happened. Roarke is watching the sad nighttime tableau as his cop, Lieutenant Eve Dallas, and the victim are lit up by the crime scene lights just inside the arch at Washington Square Park. The woman, Galla Modesto, was stabbed in the stomach initially before the blade was pulled vertically opening her up. While murder is never routine for Eve Dallas, it all seems to be a normal crime scene.

 

That is until Roarke, breaks off a conversation, and moves away into the crowd. After an interval, he comes back, and is clearly annoyed. For good reason.

 

He spotted a man known as Lorcan Cobbe. A killer that started long ago back in Dublin when Roarke and he knew each other as boys. Lorcan Cobbe has a hate on for Roarke and has made a run at him before. Each time he made a run at him, Roarke defeated him, and let him live.

 

It might have been better for all if Roarke had killed him.

 

In the here and now, Lorcan Cobbe is a very well-paid contract killer. He is very good and is never seen before the crime or afterwards. The fact that he made sure that Roarke saw him means he killed Galla Modesto and is going after Roarke. It also means that anyone Roarke cares about; Dallas, Summersett, anyone else, and there are many, are also very much at risk.

 

The chase is on and will lead back to Roarke’s native Ireland as various agencies from around the world work together to finally stop the elusive assassin.

 

Shadows in Death by J.D. Robb is a fast-paced police procedural that once again highlights the simple fact that the idea of family is not just blood based. The former street urchin and thief now has many friends in law enforcement who will do everything they can to stop Cobbe.

 

 

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My large print hardback reading copy came by way of the Lochwood Branch of the Dallas Public Library System. This is the branch I use and the one described in my short story, Whatever Happened to…?, in the Notorious in North Texas: Metroplex Mysteries III anthology.

 

 

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