Title: Dark in Death Pdf An Eve Dallas Novel (In Death, Book 46)
Author: J. D. Robb
Published Date: 2018-07-31
Page: 416
"Robb expertly ratchets up the suspense as the endgame approaches in this deadly chess match between Eve and her cunning opponent." --Publishers Weekly J.D. Robb is the pseudonym for #1 New York Times bestselling author Nora Roberts. She is the author of over 200 novels, including the futuristic suspense In Death series. There are more than five hundred million copies of her books in print.
Lieutenant Eve Dallas returns in Dark in Death, by J.D. Robb, the #1 New York Times bestselling master of suspense, and takes on a case of death imitating art…
It was a stab in the dark.
On a chilly February night, during a screening of Psycho in midtown, someone sunk an ice pick into the back of Chanel Rylan’s neck, then disappeared quietly into the crowds of drunks and tourists in Times Square. To Chanel’s best friend, who had just slipped out of the theater for a moment to take a call, it felt as unreal as the ancient black-and-white movie up on the screen. But Chanel’s blood ran red, and her death was anything but fictional.
Then, as Eve Dallas puzzles over a homicide that seems carefully planned and yet oddly personal, she receives a tip from an unexpected source: an author of police thrillers who recognizes the crime―from the pages of her own book. Dallas doesn’t think it’s coincidence, since a recent strangulation of a sex worker resembles a scene from her writing as well. Cops look for patterns of behavior: similar weapons, similar MOs. But this killer seems to find inspiration in someone else’s imagination, and if the theory holds, this may be only the second of a long-running series.
The good news is that Eve and her billionaire husband Roarke have an excuse to curl up in front of the fireplace with their cat, Galahad, reading mystery stories for research. The bad news is that time is running out before the next victim plays an unwitting role in a murderer’s deranged private drama―and only Eve can put a stop to a creative impulse gone horribly, destructively wrong.
From the author of Echoes in Death, this is the latest of the edgy, phenomenally popular police procedurals that Publishers Weekly calls “inventive, entertaining, and clever.”
Readable, but flawed execution atypical for an experienced author Unlike her July 2017 offering, Sundown, under her alternate pen name Nora Roberts, this one was at least readable. It checked all the boxes for being mostly acceptable. I knew it was in trouble before I finished the opening sentence, though. "On the mega screen bloody murder played out in classic black and white for an audience of one humdred and seven." If you have to start the first sentence over because the author/editor missed the comma after "screen," you know you're in for a struggle. And how uninspiring is that first line? It's in keeping with the plodding, predictable story arc that follows.Unfortunately, it also suffered from same structural flaws as Sundown, just to a lesser extent. There were long swaths of back and forth dialog without any context clues about who was talking to whom. It's only slightly easier to puzzle it out when there are only two people in the scene, but I often had to go back and reread an entire page, saying to myself, "Ok, that's Eve. Now that's Roark. Now that's Eve, and then Roarke...no, it's Eve again twice in a row! Aha, that's where it got messed up." The dialog for all the characters are starting to sound so much like one another. Their individual voices are blurred into one generic speech pattern. Combine that with the walls of dialog and you often are forced to pop out of the story and trace back who is saying what to whom. Is it really too much trouble to add, "Peabody paused for moment before continuing" or something like that? Just to orient the reader? Isn't that what an editor should suss out?Also, like Sundown, there were way too much focus on the interior decorating of all the scenes and the details of each meal. How the paint scheme does or doesn't match the pillows doesn't need to be in every scene. I remember when Eve rarely ate a decent meal and now we're getting detailed descriptions of shepherd's pie and oatmeal. I get that the story needs to paint a picture and needs some surrounding detail, but this was out of proportion.When I read that a character "liked pretty, bright, and happy," I almost set the book down, because those bland adjectives are becoming grossly cliche in Nora Roberts' stories. Luckily she limited the use of "pretty" to only 3 dozen descriptions. What was different from past In Death books was the noticeable increase in swearing. Eve Dallas used to use it with flair, as a cutting edge. Now it's just common phraseology for any situation. And it's the same with all the characters because they all have the same voice now.I suspected it last summer, but I'll say it again. Either someone else is writing JD Robb/Nora Roberts' books for her, or she's lost interest, or she has an editor that is failing in due diligence.Not One Of Her Best - More Dialogue Than Action I read this in about 12 hours. I will reread, as I rushed through some paragraphs of the endless dialogue.I am obsessed with this series. I know the entire 46 books/14 short stories series very, very well. I think I’ve read the entire series chronologically about ten times through, possibly more. I read them over and over and just keep going to back to them, I just love them so much. So I feel that I have a good grasp of the characters and stories.This book was just blah. It needed a side story/another storyline to pump it up. We also had no insight into the killer’s mind, as Robb likes to include. I always want to read about Eve and Roarke off hours (I really wish the reader could get to go on one of their fab vacations where no death occurs), and we got some home time in this book but it wasn’t interesting. I feel like at this point the author needs to miix it up. Eve needs to assist on one of her team’s cases or do something where it is not her case. She always gets the crazy/high profile cases. It would nice to see her support her squad. Or she could support Peabody on a case.I am rereading Imitation in Death of which Dark in Death has a similar story but Imitation is a WAY BETTER book. This book was a big miss.
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