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Secrets in Death

In Death, Book 45

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Secrets in Death

By: J. D. Robb
Narrated by: Susan Ericksen
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A new novel in the #1 New York Times bestselling series: Lt. Eve Dallas must separate rumors from reality when a woman who traffics in other people's secrets is silenced.

The chic Manhattan nightspot Du Vin is not the kind of place Eve Dallas would usually patronize, and it's not the kind of bar where a lot of blood gets spilled. But that's exactly what happens one cold February evening.

The mortally wounded woman is Larinda Mars, a self-described "social information reporter," or as most people would call it, a professional gossip. As it turns out, she was keeping the most shocking stories quiet, for profitable use in her side business as a blackmailer. Setting her sights on rich, prominent marks, she'd find out what they most wanted to keep hidden and then bleed them dry. Now someone's done the same to her, literally - with a knife to the brachial artery.

Eve didn't like Larinda Mars. But she likes murder even less. To find justice for this victim, she'll have to plunge into the dirty little secrets of all the people Larinda Mars victimized herself. But along the way, she may be exposed to some information she really didn't want to know...

©2017 Nora Roberts (P)2017 Brilliance Publishing, Inc., all rights reserved. Crime Thrillers Detective Fiction Mystery Police Procedural Romance Romantic Suspense Suspense Thriller & Suspense Women Sleuths Women's Fiction Thriller Crime
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Such a pity the person killed wasn’t alive to spend her life in prison. Though I wonder if she would have spent life in a cage? She didn’t kill anyone, just blackmail and extortion. Don’t think she would have been in a cage that long, so I really hope she realised what was happening to her as she died.
I’d forgotten the part about Roarke finally finding out who knifed his birth father.
Would have loved Peabody to wear the tiara.
Glad Peabody and McNab go to have a break in Mexico.
I always wonder if any monies are paid back to those blackmailed from the sale of everything she owned.
I also would have liked to have Eve deal strongly with the ones who entrapped Bellami. I felt so sorry for him and hope he doesn’t have too many problems with his pregnant wife.
BOOK REVIEW
This book is not fast paced or full of twists and turns like some others prior but I found this a good solid read that I couldn’t put down.
This book was calmer and flowed at a good pace due to the fact Eve and Peabody were not chasing a serial killer. This gives us a story that is a pleasure to read but gives us more interaction and private time with Eve and Roarke.
Funny how some secrets closer to home are revealed, as there has been an awful lot of discussion on her fan page about things that get revealed in this book.
For one of the few times in this series, I wasn’t sure who the killer was until nearly the end.
Larinda Mars was a parasite and no loss to the living but poor Kellie.
I would have liked to know how things ended for some of the people being blackmailed but we are given nothing along those lines.
Great interaction with the usual characters, nice to touch base with nearly everyone in Eve’s life.
UPDATE REVIEW 2021
Enjoyed reading this for the personal things that are going on. Summerset and Roarke get some time to discuss the past. Eve’s happiness at the house being Summerset free. Peabody and McNab getting a break in Mexico and the fun behaviour and snark between Peabody and Eve over that situation.
Really didn’t care about Larinda Mars and her background showed how cold and self-centred she was.
Still found her a cold parasite for how she set that poor man with the pregnant wife up. I hope Eve did deal with those who perpetrated that set up.
A lifetime in a cage would have been better punishment but nobody had the balls to contact the police.
I did feel sorry for that young woman who lost her life due to the killer using her.
I have owned most of these books in paperback for years but now have them all in eBook format, so I am rereading this series once more in order, updating and replacing missing reviews.
Even knowing what is in the future, it is absolutely no hardship to reread this series and I am really enjoying how all the characters are growing and changing.

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loved the book, never disappointed when reading about eve Dallas and Rourke. Love the way the characters in the book continue to develop. I hope you never stop writing this series

Another good story in in death series

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Took me awhile to get use to the narrator but the story was great as always withJD Robb.

Suspense

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Never let you down reading the death series by D J Robb. As good as always.

As good as always

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Loved the book. Well done with the development of familiar characters and a unique story.

Great suspenseful story!

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Not the best story but I still enjoy this series. Narrator is fantastic. 7/10

Still like them

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I purchased 2 X J D Robb books this one and Dark in Death both books are narrated by Susan Ericksen. She has to be the worst narrator ever. So much so that I could not finish either book. Sorry JD I will never know how the story ends unless I buy the Kindle version or a hard copy.

Another Ericksen Woeful Narration

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I liked it, not loved it. The story was interesting, it's just the main characters' lives have stagnated, with character flaws and idiocincracies seriously repetitive. These characters have not grown. Eve Dallas is just mean and loves being mean, and getting metaphors wrong, then arguing the logic. Boring. And the ever so patient and understanding zillionaire husband, far too good to be true. Perhaps I'm just over it.

The main characters have flattened out

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I’ll begin with an admission; this was my first JD Robb. There are 37 titles in the In Death series and I honestly can not fathom why they would be that successful.

Our story takes place over 72 hours and opens with a scene which makes no sense other than to set up the murder, the rather verbose chapter begins to develop a relationship between the main character Dallas and her professional rival De Winter then goes nowhere.

The relationship between Eve Dallas and her husband Rourke is so ridiculously out of place it’s cringeworthy. Eve is a local detective but her husband was once a master criminal and in this novel happens to own almost every building the detective eneters in New Your City including Rockerfeller Centre!!! . And why Rourke keeps being invited by Eve to work on aspects of her murder investigation is not adequaely explained; in the real world would it stand up in a Court that information on an investigation was gathered by a detectives husband??? Rourke has built a house that has voice activated showers, dryer room (on exiting said shower) heaters, lights, computers, coffee makes and wardrobes that selects clothes. IMPLAUSIBLE AND STUPID. But I won’t go on.

Our detective Eve is so special, she double parks her car then gets her assistant Peabody to park it properly for her IN NEW YORK CITY. Let’s talk about Peabody shall we? I’m sot sure what the narrator was trying to achieve in this audible but whatever it was it was uniquely annoying; was Peabody supposed to sound like a character in Scooby Doo? Bad enough Robb wrote Peabody up like a 13 year old with serious social problems, doing little ‘internal’ dances when happy but the narrator butchered not only this character but the Rourke character’s ‘irish’ accent which reminded me of a friends 8 year old son who would begin with an Irish accent which would morph into an Indian accent - well they both begin with ‘i’ so close enough I guess.

Back to the story. . . . I though my Audible got stuck on replay because I could have sworn I heard the same w o r d y passage more than once, but no it was just padding, deflecting and not really moving our story on. The ending was rushed, sloppy and like the chapters before it made no sense and was inadequately explained.

If you’re a Robb fan you’d most likely be use to her taking you to a cul-d-sac in Nowhereville with a stop at Yawnfield on the way, in which case this is the next Audible you should purchase.

I’ll end with admission; this will be my las JD Robb novel.

Implausible, repetitive story

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