Betrayal in Death
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At the luxurious Roarke Palace Hotel, a maid walks into suite 4602 for the nightly turndown – and steps into her worst nightmare. A killer leaves her dead, strangled by a thin silver wire. He’s Sly Yost, a virtuoso of composition and murder. A hit man for the elite. Lieutenant Eve Dallas knows him well. But in this twisted case, knowing the killer doesn’t help solve the crime. Because there’s a name else involved. A name with a more personal motive. And Eve must face a terrifying possibility – that the real target may, in fact, be her spouse Roarke…Amazon.com Review
J.D. Robb fans are fanatical about New York City supercop Eve Dallas and her mysterious billionaire spouse Roarke. Robb’s futuristic (circa 2059) …In Death series wages a two-front narrative war (the battle of excellent and evil and the battle of the sexes) and both leader and readers come out winners.
When Darlene French, a maid at the Roarke Palace Hotel, is cruelly beaten, raped, and strangled with a silver wire, Eve is at a loss to clarify the rumor has it that professional scenery of the murder. Who would hire a hit man to kill such an ordinary woman? As she and her team of detectives (with a small grudgingly accepted help from Roarke, whose money, name, and talents can dig up a wealth of information) investigate the evidence, they find themselves in pursuit of Sylvester Yost, a vicious hired gun who’s made millions in his bloody pursuit of career excellence. But it isn’t until more victims appear that Eve realizes Yost’s real target is Roarke himself. To learn the driving force behind the murderous battle, Eve and Roarke will have to delve into their own pasts, which holds secrets and terrors for them both.
Robb is the nom de plume of romance writer Nora Roberts, and this series certainly delivers the same sexually charged tension and improbably gorgeous characters as Roberts’s extremely well loved romances. But even persons readers, who generally try to steer clear of bursting at the seams bosoms and ripped bodices, will have small to dread and much to appreciate in Treachery in Death. Eve and Roarke are impressive physical specimens, but they’re also witty, stark, and regularly antagonistic, irritably staking out their territories and reluctantly collaborating in the crimes that come their way (reflect Bruce Willis and Cybill Guide in Moonlighting, or Nick and Nora Charles on steroids and in a mood). Add in Robb’s surprisingly light touch with humor, and the 13th installment in the series is a lucky find indeed. –Kelly Flynn
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I didn’t know she wrote bodice rippers, but it is simple to judge.
Really dumb plot: set 50 years in the future for no excellent reason, zero understanding of equipment, simple characters, nothing surprising except when a victim gets away from a killer who is close to an impossible set of characteristics. $2M for a killing in NYC? 4 such killings to distract a CEO so he wouldn’t look at his security for a $500M auction?
This woman is a NYT Best Selling leader? So many fantastic reviews of a mediocre book?
These merely show how simple it is to manipulate the systems involved.
Reader’s Rating: 1 / 5
I bought this book as a honestly random choice based on its excellent reviews. The plot is clever enough and the police procedures are reasonably knowledgeable but……! Aren’t there supposed to be proof-readers and editors whose job it is to make sure that an leader doesn’t make embarrassing errors? I’m an Irishman and I can promise you that the image of Dublin exemplified by one of the main characters just doesn’t ring right. Roarke’s background would have been hard enough to justify if he had been born in the 60’s or 70’s but he’s supposed to be from the early 21st century for heaven’s sake and he talks about Dublin as if he had come from a huge slum! The dialogue he comes out with is just really incredible and I use that word in its literal form. His phrases and attitudes are not the stuff of an ex-gangland boss from Ireland. But then the dialogue of the entire book is sadly embarrassing. On the last page, one of the two main characters refers to an enemy as “him and his … son”. A half dozen lines later, exactly the same dialogue comes out of the mouth of his wife! And again, earlier in the book…. “People question me why I’m doing this, why I’m giving so much of it up. Do you know what I say?” You have to turn the page to get the answer from the hard-bitten female cop and the delay adds to the leaden disappointment of what she says…..”No, what?” !!! (Even if she had said, “No, but I suppose you’re going to tell me.”) Having said all of that, I finished the book to see the end so it “held” me in that sense. I do reflect that Nora needs to get herself some honest proof-readers and/or editor, then her imaginative plots might have a bit more literary and realistic merit.
Reader’s Rating: 1 / 5
A mystery novel like no additional.
You have to read it if you are a mystery fan.
It is absolutely brilliant!
Reader’s Rating: 5 / 5
This book is fantastic–as is the whole series! Robb/Roberts keeps getting better and better. Check out my reviews of Naked in Death and/or Glory in Death for more info…
Reader’s Rating: 5 / 5
I really like her books, and the characters in this series are wonderful. So don’t get me incorrect, I’m usually a huge fan of this series. But. . . the ending was a huge let down. The terrible guy was horrible. Really deserved to get it huge time. And then when he was caught so easily in the end, I thought, oh no! Just wait, he’ll get away and come back after Eve and Roarke and all hell is going to break loose! But no. He was just caught. The end. And the whole tale thread with Roarke being his target was completely dropped. I thought that Roarke would tear him apart when he tried for him. Or Eve would. But Eve and Roarke never even knew that he was a target. And Dr. Mira’s grand-child. I thought that Eve would have some sort of thoughts about children in regard to herself. Even if the thoughts were “no flippin way!” But it was never mentioned again. I was pretty disappointed over all.
Reader’s Rating: 2 / 5