Portrait in Death
by JD Robb (Nora Roberts) | Mystery & Thrillers | This book has not been rated.
ISBN: 0425189031 Global Overview for this book
ISBN: 0425189031 Global Overview for this book
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From Publishers Weekly
Lieutenant Eve Dallas may live in 2059, but she's still a recognizable Manhattan police officer: mouthy, courageous, skeptical and impatient. In Roberts's latest In Death novel (after Purity in Death), she's charged with finding a killer who murders young people full of innocence and promise, photographs them after death, then taunts both a top reporter and Dallas herself with notes about his handiwork. Just as her investigation of Manhattan's clubs and colleges nears its peak, Eve's husband, the wealthy entrepreneur Roarke, discovers that his mother is not the cold abandoner he remembers, but a tender young Irishwoman whom his father brutally murdered. While he struggles to understand his heritage, the couple must navigate stormy marital waters. Though the mystery's denouement doesn't live up to its promise, the book ably delivers on other fronts. Intensely female yet unfeminine in any traditional sense, Dallas has a complex edge that transcends genre stereotypes and gives the book's romantic interludes a real charge. As always in Roberts's work, appealing secondary characters add genuine warmth and humor. And while this futuristic vision of New York may not be totally accurate (it's unlikely, for example, that Dallas's oft-used "bite me" will still be in vogue 50 years from now), it's perfectly calibrated to intrigue.
Copyright 2003 Reed Business Information, Inc.
Product Description
A serial killer takes his dead victims' portraits and sends them to the media. Lieutenant Eve Dallas counts on her husband's help to crack the case, but he's just learned a devastating truth about his past.
Lieutenant Eve Dallas may live in 2059, but she's still a recognizable Manhattan police officer: mouthy, courageous, skeptical and impatient. In Roberts's latest In Death novel (after Purity in Death), she's charged with finding a killer who murders young people full of innocence and promise, photographs them after death, then taunts both a top reporter and Dallas herself with notes about his handiwork. Just as her investigation of Manhattan's clubs and colleges nears its peak, Eve's husband, the wealthy entrepreneur Roarke, discovers that his mother is not the cold abandoner he remembers, but a tender young Irishwoman whom his father brutally murdered. While he struggles to understand his heritage, the couple must navigate stormy marital waters. Though the mystery's denouement doesn't live up to its promise, the book ably delivers on other fronts. Intensely female yet unfeminine in any traditional sense, Dallas has a complex edge that transcends genre stereotypes and gives the book's romantic interludes a real charge. As always in Roberts's work, appealing secondary characters add genuine warmth and humor. And while this futuristic vision of New York may not be totally accurate (it's unlikely, for example, that Dallas's oft-used "bite me" will still be in vogue 50 years from now), it's perfectly calibrated to intrigue.
Copyright 2003 Reed Business Information, Inc.
Product Description
A serial killer takes his dead victims' portraits and sends them to the media. Lieutenant Eve Dallas counts on her husband's help to crack the case, but he's just learned a devastating truth about his past.
Journal Entry 2 by 
hippolein
at By Mail, A RABCK -- Controlled Releases on Tuesday, September 15, 2009
hippolein at By Mail, A RABCK -- Controlled Releases on Tuesday, September 15, 2009
Released 14 yrs ago (9/15/2009 UTC) at By Mail, A RABCK -- Controlled Releases
CONTROLLED RELEASE NOTES:
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RABCK to set up a spiral of books by the same author.
Hope it arrives safely!
RABCK to set up a spiral of books by the same author.
Hope it arrives safely!
Journal Entry 3 by skizeye9 from Washington, District of Columbia USA on Wednesday, September 23, 2009
Thank you so much for this contribution to the J.D. Robb spiral! These contributions are crucial to making it become a reality!
This is the eighteenth book in the J.D. Robb book spiral I'm hosting. This is the list of participants for receiving this particular book as it currently stands. Please make sure you check each list for each book before PMing the person following you b/c it is going to vary for some books.
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clawdette (US)
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