Dark in Death: An Eve Dallas Novel

By J.D. Robb

Book Overview

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."

• Format: Mass Market Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 1250161541
• ISBN13: 9781250161543
• Release Date: July 2018
• Publisher: St. Martin's Press
• Length: 416 Pages
• Weight: 0.47 lbs.
• Dimensions: 1.3" x 4.2" x 6.6"

Customer Reviews

killer plot

This book was a crazy twist of plot. A book written about a book writer and a killer who killed by the book. A look at how people react to being told to change their behavior to save their life, or choose not to. A look at what happens when parents write the future of their child without asking what the child might want. A look at what our choices bring us. Good read.

Too much hypothesis

Just seemed way too much time spent profiling the killer. For a long time it was Roarke and Eve. Peabody was nowhere to be found. For a while, I thought the killer was someone mentioned in the investigation. Not as good.of a read as others