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Immortal in Death (Eve Dallas Investigation)

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In this segment Eve is investigating the murder of a top fashion model. Mavis, Eve's very best friend becomes the main suspect. Leonardo, whom Mavis is in love with is also a suspect and is designing Eve's wedding dress for her soon to be wedding to Roarke. Eve does everything in her power to find the real killer and get Mavis off the hook. Eve knows her friend couldn't possibly do this, in spite the evidence. After Eve and Roarke have Mavis staying at their house, more murders happen which do seem connected. Eve finds a new drug seems to be connected. The people murdered were either consuming this drug or dealing it. This new drug is fatal but it makes you young and sexy and eaten up by the wealthy and powerful especially in this fashion world. Peabody is back in this book and is becoming Eve's aide in the homicide world. You learn more of Eve and Roark's past. These books just keep getting better. What an excellent series!!!

In the latest in the series, "Immortal in Death," we find Eve shopping for a wedding dress to wear to marry the hunk Roarke. If you've read any of the other books in this series, you'll understand why it is so unusual for this tough city cop to be dress shopping.

A supermodel is murdered and Eve's best friend, Mavis, becomes the prime suspect. Also suspect is Mavis's boyfriend, Leonardo, who just happens to be the designer of Dallas's wedding dress. While investigating the murder and digging up the dirt on the fashion world, Dallas discovers that the model (and most of the suspects) are either consuming or dealing a new and illegal youth serum.

It's hard to guess the murderer is in this book, the entire mystery is well written by Robb who keeps the reader guessing.

Mavis's character is brought out in more depth, and Peabody's character is broadened as well making her Eve's aide. Roarke and Eve's relationship shows more depth in this book then in the previous books and we learn more about Roarke's background.

Read the entire series of these "in Death" books, start with Naked in Death the first of the series. They are all excellent.

Let me put it this way...when my order from amazon.com arrived, I tore into the box to get to my J.D. Robb books! I could not wait to hear more of the story on Eve, Roarke and the other zany characters that Robb cooked up for us.

In Immortal in Death, Robb offers us an in depth look at the value of beauty...and how far some will go to attain their looks. When Lietenant Eve Dallas investigates into the murder of a top fashion model, she finds herself walking a very fine line between justice and crime as she prepares to defend one of her closest friends. Eve must go by the book in order to protect and defend Mavis, her zany musician turned best friend in Immortal in Death. Can their friendship stand the heat? Can Eve find the evidence she needs to free Mavis? Or will the ultimate set up become the ultimate betrayal as Eve heads into the high priced world of wealth, power and...immortality.

If you have not read any of the J.D. Robb series, I seriously recommend starting with the first one, Naked in Death. However, Robb gives the reader enough background information in each book, that picking up any one in the series would still grab your attention, keep you on the edge of your seat and racing to the finish line.

Email me with questions on any of the RObb books! toniroger@hotmail.com

At the end of the previous book, "Glory in Death", Roarke proposed to Lieutenant Eve Dallas after they were both involved in a life-threatening situation with a dangerous killer. Nora Roberts, writing as J.D. Robb, shocks us right from the start of this book, when we find that Eve accepted the marriage proposal! For those of you that have read the previous novels, this must come as much of a surprise as it was for me. Eve has always had trouble accepting the fact that she was in love, so it was almost unthinkable that she would be willing to share her life with the billionaire Roarke. However, this sets the tone for the things to come in this book, where we will find out several interesting facts from Eve and Roarke's past. These tidbits of information help us make sense of the attitudes we witnessed from several of the main characters in the past.

This time, the crimes Eve has to investigate are very close to home. Eve's best friend, Mavis, has convinced her to consult with designer Leonardo about her wedding dress. Mavis is in a relationship with the designer, and facing a very jealous ex-girlfriend, Pandora, who is literally fighting to get Leonardo back. One night, Mavis calls Eve in a frantic state from Leonardo's study and asks for help. She had found Pandora, the supermodel with which she had a big fight hours ago, lifeless on the study floor. Eve sets out to find out the culprit and clear her friend. In the meantime, one of Eve's informants turns up dead too, and the investigation leads to a new and deadly drug.

Robb has created a wonderful setting for her mysteries, New York in the year 2058, and has perfected the mix with some great characters, making this one hell of series. In this particular case, besides the "usual suspects", we are introduced to the character of detective Peabody, Eve's new partner after Feeney's promotion as captain of another division.

Even though I think there is a clear advantage of reading this series in order, and grasp the complexities and personal history of each character, the books stand well on their own. Moreover, J.D. Robb does a great job in describing the futuristic world efficiently through examples intertwined in the narration of the events, without making it boring for those of us who are already aware of what the "rules" are. Whether you try this book on its own or you start from the beginning of the series with "Naked in Death", I can guarantee that you will enjoy reading about Lieutenant Eve Dallas and her friends.

J.D. Robb's Eve Dallas mystery/romance/scifi novels are wonderful, and IMMORTAL IN DEATH is one of the best. A much hated model is murdered. Eve's best friend, the absolutely ditzy but loyal Mavis, is a suspect since she fell in love with the hot designer, Leonardo, who had also been the vapid, vicious model's boyfriend. Roarke, Eve's dashing, mysterious almost-husband, gets involved. Peabody, the stalwart, hopelessly romantic cop, makes a strong appearance in this novel. All the trademark sex, zingy dialogue, and good mystery elements are in evidence. Eve solves the crime, but nearly loses her life. J.D. Robb's a bloody genius with these books.

I have read one Nora Roberts novel and I hated it. I read everything and eagerly await the new books by JD ROBB. Eve Dallas is the hard working everybody I would like to be. Her job and life have a personal meaning to her. Not always good or happy either. Meeting the right person throws her life in chaos and she struggles with the pessure of keeping her life together while she opens her heart. I love the slightly futuristic feel to the series. JD ROBB has managed to create a great cop story with great mysteries. It also uses the half century gain to highlight the possible scenarios of some societies easy out policies like gun control and other "hot" issues.

In "Immortal in Death," Dallas is preparing for her wedding when a local supermodel is murdered and Dallas's best friend, Mavis, becomes the prime suspect. Also suspect is Mavis's boyfriend, Leonardo, who just happens to be the designer of Dallas's wedding dress. While investigating the murder and digging up the dirt on the fashion world, Dallas discovers that the model (and most of the suspects) are either consuming or dealing a new and illegal youth serum.

This, obviously, is the key to the murder mystery, and Robb does a very good job at keeping us guessing. Although she wraps it up a bit to tidily, she does make it hard to figure out who the villain is.

Robb makes Mavis's character more complex and in-depth, and brings in Peabody, a new cop from her previous novel. Peabody becomes Dallas's aide (partner in training) in this novel and is a good foil for Dallas's hardness and intensity. Robb creates a really good chemistry between Dallas and Peabody that yields several witty and sarcastic exchanges.

One of the better parts of this book is the tangent on Sommerset, Roarke's butler. He and Dallas are perpetually sparring and, until this the third book in the series, have a true dislike of each other. Sommerset gives Dallas a hard dressing down for how she handles Mavis's case. And Roarke explains to Dallas how he and Sommerset came to work together, creating a tale that would in itself be an interesting novella. (And this little segment adds a lot of depth to Roarke's character.) This sets us up for some excitement between Roarke and Sommerset when Sommerset learns some of Eve's secrets. And it builds the foundation for some very entertaining exchanges in future novels of this series.

This is one of Robb's better books. Fast-paced, humorous, suspenseful, and entertaining.

In this book, Lieutenant Eve Dallas investigates the brutal murder of a model. Eve's best friend, Mavis, is a suspect. As if that weren't bad enough, Eve also has to work on her wedding plans and her increasingly clearer memories of what her father did to her as a child.

Although this is not my favorite book in the series, I still enjoy it and have read it several times. I would suggest reading the first two books in the series before reading this one, simply because Eve and Roarke's relationship is developed over time and skipping those books also skips that development. Also, because I know that these books are located in the mystery section of bookstores, I'll also add that the relationships between characters in these books are as important, if not more so, than the mystery elements. I myself enjoyed the mystery in this book, but I know there are some people who feel it's too predictable. It wasn't too predictable for me, but the reason I reread this book is not for the mystery, but for Eve's relationships with her friends and with Roarke. I definitely recommend this book and this series.

The "in Death" series by JD Robb is terrific! I started with the later titles and recently have gone back to the beginning of the series to enjoy those stories. This was is one of the best I've read (listened to). If you enjoy Lt. Eve Dallas and her crew, you'll like this one.

This series has some very good points and some really annoying aspects. The plots are generally excellent: well-thought out, complicated enough to be satisfying, but simple enough to be believable. The dialog is good and the secondary characters are entertaining and likeable.

The main character leaves a little to be desired in that a) it gets quite tiresome being told all the time how caring she is. The whole defender of the dead, stalwart and true, faithful to the end, devoted friend of each and every innocent person everywhere, lover of the law, hero thing is forced down the reader's throat too often. As are b) the extremely graphic descriptions of the main character's abuse as a child that the author insists on including in every single book at least once, if not more. In addition, I have issues with how the main relationship in the book is handled in book two in that it seems that Roark, the hero, attempts to force his emotionally scarred lover into loving him. It happens that she does so it all works out, but the point is that he didn't know that at the time. The relationship seems to go on in a similar vein for some time. But I'm willing to believe that most people don't mind this.

Unfortunately the whole future thing gets in the way in frequent, little ways that take bite after tiny bite out of enjoyment of the story. Mostly this is because the future as imagined by the author doesn't make a lot of sense in several ways. For one thing, it's only 50 years or so into the future but there are many off-world colonies on a whole bunch of planets, moons, and space stations, including a place known as Vegas II. It reminds me heavily of those shows in the 60's about how we were all going to be living on the moon and driving flying cars by 1989. Those voice overs start playing in my head. Not that the author is saying it will actually be like that, but where was the difficulty in making it even farther into the future?

Even more annoying are the inconsistencies. Things like how real lemon juice, steak, and butter are all very hard to get and expensive, but Elephants aren't extinct, and people carry around pads of paper and pencils and pens. If people haven't got the space for cows, they sure as hell ain't got the space for elephants or tree farms, especially when we already have electronic writing tablets now, never mind in 50 years. And why should lemons be rare when there are all these off-planet farms and plant breeding facilities? Also, people get dried off after showers etc. in these "drying tubes" that blow hot air all over you, like a giant blow drier. If people with long hair tried this, they'd end up with a giant ball of knots on top of their head. Or at least, bangs that stand straight up. Big problem in marketing. And at one point, Eve, the heroine, avoids using lip stain because she doesn't like being stuck with one color for three months, but then in the next book her friend takes off her lip stain with a cream remover. Little things like this are numerous throughout the series.

Occasionally, there are similes or lines that are jarring, but this is normal with any series. However, I don't think I'll be able to forgive the author this one: "The dead and innocent, Eve thought with a shudder as she drove away. She knew that too many of the dead were the guilty." What the hell does that mean? It makes even less sense in the context of the story where they have, if anything, too many suspects - living suspects.

Lastly, I'd like to mention that I started the series by picking up one of the most recent books in an airport. I liked it enough to start the series at the beginning from the library, but was astonished when Eve and Roarke actually get married between books three and four. I was astonished by this because in the book I had started with, at least 16 books later in the series, Eve is still apparently trying to get over being married. It had seemed so obvious in that later book that Eve had Roarke had just gotten married. How can this woman, who is head over heels in love with her "soul-mate" still be obsessing about being married 16 books later? Telling herself every time she sees her husband that he is, in fact, her husband and reminding herself on a daily basis that she is, in fact, married. The prospect has led me to abandon the series, despite the good qualities. Which leads me say again that the plots really are quite excellent, even if the killer is sometimes easy to guess at.