Passions in Death: An Eve Dallas Novel

by J. D. Robb

Overview

Notes From Your Bookseller

Whether it be a crime of passion or a freak accident — Detective Eve Dallas answers the call (and we love poring over the clues right alongside her).

Homicide Detective Eve Dallas hunts a killer who turns a wedding party into a murder scene in the next novel by the #1 New York Times bestselling author, J.D. Robb, Passions in Death.

On a hot August night, Lt. Eve Dallas and her husband, Roarke, speed through the streets of Manhattan to the Down and Dirty club, where a joyful, boisterous pre-wedding girls' night out has turned into a murder scene. One of the brides lies in a pool of blood, garroted in a private room where she was preparing a surprise for her fiancée--two scrimped and saved-for tickets to Hawaii.

Despite the dozens of people present, useful witnesses are hard to come by. It all brings back some bad memories for Eve who once suffered an assault in the very same room--but she'd been able to fight back and survive. She'd gotten justice. And now she needs to provide some for poor young Erin.

Eve knows that the level of violence and the apparent premeditation involved suggest a volatile mix of hidden, heated passion and ice-cold calculation. This is a crime that can be countered only by hard detective work and relentless dedication--and Eve will not stop until she finds the killer who destroyed this couple's dreams before the honeymoon even began...

Product Details

ISBN-13:	9781250371362
Publisher:	St. Martin's Publishing Group
Publication date:	01/07/2025
Series:	In Death (Eve Dallas) Series
Pages:	384
Product dimensions:	5.30(w) x 8.20(h) x 1.10(d)

About the Author

J.D. ROBB is the pseudonym for #1 New York Times bestselling author Nora Roberts. She is the author of over 240 novels, including the futuristic suspense In Death series. There are more than 500 million copies of her books in print.

Hometown:

Keedysville, Maryland

Date of Birth:

1950

Place of Birth:

Silver Spring, Maryland

Website:

http://www.noraroberts.com/

Editorial Reviews

07/29/2024

Spunky New York City homicide detective Eve Dallas investigates a bachelorette party gone south in the anemic latest near-future thriller from Robb (after Random in Death). In 2061, New York’s Down and Dirty sex club is packed with partiers celebrating the upcoming wedding of marketing executive Shauna Hunicutt and street artist Erin Albright. The festivities come to a halt when the one of the brides-to-be is found strangled to death in the club’s private room. The brutality of the crime suggests a personal vendetta, so when Dallas and her colleagues, detectives Delia Peabody and Ian McNab, arrive at the scene, they waste no time interviewing the party guests, many of whom have known each other since high school. The case stirs up uneasy memories for Dallas, who was once assaulted in the same private room, and she fights to suppress her emotions as she parses Shauna and Erin’s circle of friends. While Dallas’s home life with her wealthy husband continues to offer a welcome dose of romantic fantasy, the circuitous investigation is likely to test the patience of even Robb’s most devoted fans. This series has seen better days. Agent: Amy Berkower, Writers House. (Sept.)

Publishers Weekly

"Puts the “procedure” rewardingly back into the police procedural." —Kirkus

"With the fifty-eighth irresistibly readable entry in the ever-popular Eve Dallas series, Robb (Payback in Death, 2023) continues to showcase her mastery when it comes to creating inventive plots generously spiked with nail-biting suspense and populated with compelling characters, including Eve, who never stops working to bring justice to the victims in every murder case she investigates." —Booklist

From the Publisher

Narrator Susan Ericksen once again takes the listener through a murder investigation led by Lt. Eve Dallas in New York City in the year 2061. Dallas is called to a club where a young bride-to-be has been murdered at her bachelorette party. Assisting Eve is her partner, Peabody. Ericksen does an excellent job contrasting Dallas's calm determination with Peabody's more youthful eagerness. Dallas is married to an Irish billionaire named Roarke, whom Ericksen endows with just the right touch of an Irish lilt. Ericksen adds dimension to her portrayals of the secondary characters, who range from the stuffy Somerset, Roarke's majordomo, to childish Bella, Dallas's friend's young daughter, and calm Dr. Mira, the department's psychologist. Ericksen's performance once again immerses the listener in the world of Eve Dallas. S.B. © AudioFile 2024, Portland, Maine

SEPTEMBER 2024 - AudioFile

2024-07-04
Lieutenant Eve Dallas is called out of bed to investigate the late-night strangling of a bride-to-be at her and her fiancee’s joint bachelorette party.

On top of her wedding to Fancy Feet shoe store manager Shauna Hunnicut a few days away, street artist Erin Albright is looking forward to something else: a surprise honeymoon in Maui, a trip Shauna’s always dreamed of taking, that Erin’s financed by unexpectedly selling three paintings. Feverish with excitement, Erin ducks into a privacy room at the sex club Down and Dirty to don her Hawaiian apparel but never comes out. Assuming from the get-go that “somebody Albright knew and trusted killed her,” Dallas and her partner, Det. Delia Peabody, question Erin’s studio mates and the friends she shared with Shauna in search of someone who objected to her marriage enough to kill her—or a collector of her canvases looking for a quick and dirty way to drive up their prices. In an investigation that’s unusually sharply focused for this futuristic series, Dallas and Peabody initially spend most of their time spitballing theories about possible killers and checking the alibis of the leading candidates. As the grind grinds on, things get distinctly more interesting when they narrow their focus to two favored suspects: Shauna’s ex-lover Greg Barney, who’s now the cohab of the brides’ mutual friend Becca DiNuzio, and Erin’s ex-lover ChiChi Lopez, a stripper who clearly enjoys displaying her body to paying audiences. They both fit the profile that consulting psychologist Dr. Mira provides to a T. So which of them did the deed—or was it someone else entirely?

Steadily rising tension more than makes up for the absence of surprises. This is, after all, a procedural.

Kirkus Reviews