Review ‘Secrets in Death’ by J.D. Robb

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…

I love
every book by J.D. Robb I’ve ever read. The In Death series is definitely one
series I look forward to reading every single book from. So when ‘Secrets in
Death’ arrived in my mail box I was super excited to start reading.

In the new
J.D. Robb book Lieutenant Eve Dallas witnessed a murder herself when she is
having a drink with a colleague. Yes, definitely something new! The victim is
Larinda Mars, a ‘gossip’ reporter who many people disliked. The list of
suspects gets very long, and Eve soon finds out there is a lot about Larinda
Mars the public didn’t know. And Eve’s husband Roarke’s expertise in technology
and safes come in hand with this case. What a fascinating guy!

‘Secrets
in Death’ is already the 45th book in the series. And I definitely enjoyed
reading about Eve Dallas again. I love how she really gets into her work, and
takes no crap from anyone. This book started very good. I loved how Eve herself
was now a witness to a murder. It was something else, and definitely
unexpected. And for a long time I really didn’t see who would have murdered
Larinda Mars. Almost everyone disliked her, even Eve, and I could have easily
seen a lot of people murdering her.. But right in the middle of a busy bar? 

To be
honest, I didn’t really liked how this book ended. It felt a little rushed to
me. There wasn’t a real suspect, and bam Eve knew who was the murderer and the
book ended. I would have liked to see a little more real detective work. And I
also missed Peabody in this book. She really didn’t have much a role in this one.

But, just
like with all the In Death books, I really like that we get to read all those
details of a case. In most crime novels, we don’t read about every single thing
the Lieutenant or Inspector thinks. But in these book we really get in sight
Eve Dallas’s head. I really loved that, and it almost makes me feel like I
really know her. Definitely a bravo to the author. 

Overall it
was another good In Death book. But I liked the previous one more.

Nora Roberts is the number one New York Times bestseller of more than 200 novels. She published her first novel using the pseudonym J.D. Robb in 1995, with the In Death series, Robb has become one of the biggest thriller writers on earth, with each new novel reaching number one on bestseller charts over the world. With over 450 million copies of her books in print, she is indisputably one of the most celebrated and popular writers in the world.

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I received this book from the Little, Brown Book Group in exchange for my honest review.