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	• Creation in Death (In Death) J.D. Robb Berkley, 2008 - 384 pages average customer review:based on 88 reviews view larger image
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Another Great J.D. Robb

This is one of the best of the In Death series. I've been reading J.D. Robb's In Death series since I picked up Ceremony In Death while waiting for my connecting flight in Dallas several years ago. I was hooked and quickly found the rest of the series.

Lt. Eve Dallas and her husband Roarke are having a pleasant day off when Eve is called into a murder scene. She's seen this killer's victims 9 years before. At that time there wasn't enough evidence to catch him. He has changed several of his previous criteria and that is enough to give Eve and her team some new leads. Most of these changes involve Roarke. For the first time, Roarke goes from beginning to end on this case with Eve. Even working at cop central. The characters are always well developed and it was really good reading with old friends and a few new ones.

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A Murder and Mayhem Bookclub review

Eve Dallas, homicide Lieutenant of the year 2060 has come a long way from her days as a rookie cop. Owing much to Captain Feeney, who now heads up the department's electronic investigation unit, Eve hopes she has become the homicide investigator that Feeney once tirelessly trained her to be. When she is nominated as lead on a case that involves re-visiting an old investigation, Eve feels uncomfortable giving out tasks to her old boss. Were there mistakes made by Feeney and the original team of detectives?

It seems "The Groom" has returned, the killer so dubbed by the press for his habit of placing rings on the fingers of the women he kills after prolonged torture sessions. One thing they learnt the first time around was that the Groom always had a back-up bride, meaning that when one woman dies, the next victim has already been kidnapped. With a ticking time bomb of the worst kind spurring them onwards, Eve and her team are short of time and short of temper. The big question to Eve is why is this killer, who successfully escaped the New York police the first time around, back in action after such a long time? The answers are in the last case, and treading on tender egos is the least of Eve's concerns. Setting herself up to be the Groom's next target is not something she wants to share with her protective husband any time soon either. As for the Groom's victims, time will keep on running out for them unless Eve can successfully place herself within the sights of a very efficient killer.

Just as it is thought that this series is nearing an end, another book comes along. CREATION IN DEATH is the 25th entry in Robb's very popular "in Death" series, a major achievement in anyone's terms, and particularly so considering how many books it is that Robb also manages to churn out under her own name of Nora Roberts. For the regular reader, this latest book is well within the comfort zone of how we expect Eve to behave, and also of how the relationships of those around her function. The character of Eve Dallas still throws out the smart and snappy dialogue, while stomping over the social niceties in police boots in order to catch her prey. Secondary characters share the limelight less in this latest offering - a plus, as they can get annoying. Making it more of a one woman show with husbandly backup is this reader's preferred manner in which the series should operate. The platform of a future world is far more interesting than the domestics of what Eve's friends and workmates are up to.

Despite the future setting of New York, science fiction high-tech style, Robb manages to keep the crime in her "in Death" series on a local level which is something of a relief. The crimes remain those of the city, and so well has Robb maintained the rules of her fictional future world that the procedures of investigation have become very familiar to regular readers. The world of Eve Dallas and her billionaire, drop-dead gorgeous (of course) husband is populated with a myriad of interesting characters (the villains being the best of these) and cool gadgets for everyday living. The momentum begun with the debut of the first book continues to CREATION IN DEATH. Said before, worth saying again - this is the crime fiction reader's sorbet. Great fun, fast, and refreshingly different.

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Creation in Death

Creation in Death (In Death)This is one of the best books about Eve Dallas that I have read and I have all of the Eve Dallas series. It's believable, the action flows, and the characters have depth. If you have ever read any of Nora Roberts books, this is a little different, mystery, suspence and action.

Book was very good. Condition was fair.

Book was generaly in great condition. Unfortunately 1/2 of one page (length-wise) was missing. This made two pages totally unreadable.

Classic Eve Dallas...

Flat-out classic Eve Dallas... Creation In Death by J. D. Robb (aka Nora Roberts)... Roberts is hitting on all cylinders here, and Creation is exactly what drew me into the In Death series to begin with (many, many years ago). Tight story, driving plot, good interplay between the characters...

In this episode, Dallas is taken back to a case she and Feeney worked nine years ago... A killer was loose in the city, and his modus operandi involved abducting young women and slowly torturing them until they died. The total time it took was then carved onto their bodies as his "signature". The case was never solved, as the murders stopped before they could find the killer. Fast forward to now, and a body has turned up that has all the same characteristics of the prior killings. Dallas doesn't take well to the fact that they didn't put him away the first time, and Feeney shares her frustration. Now that he's back, they're both resolved that everything will end this time time around.

The case dynamics have changed somewhat, in that Feeney was lead the first time with Dallas as his secondary. Now the roles are reversed, and there's a bit of tension over how much Dallas feels she should hand over to Feeney as the secondary. However, the reality is that they are both cops first, and even through the stress they understand that it's not a matter of who leads, but that the killer is stopped. Roarke plays a slightly different role in this story, in that he's brought into the case from the very beginning as a "civilian expert". He usually gets involved in some ways anyway, but there's a possibility that the killer is focused on Roarke as a revenge factor. Being in it from the start, he sees exactly how Dallas lives and breathes a crime like this, and why she's unable to turn it off until the victims have justice.

Some of the more recent In Death novels have had a more prominent plotline involving the relationship between Dallas and one of the many secondary characters in the series. They've still been good, as it's served to round out the characters and make them even more real. But I'd be lying if I said I didn't miss the more crime-driven episodes a bit, and Creation falls squarely into that category. I started this book just a couple days ago, and finished it up while I was working out at the gym. As always, my only regret is that I have to wait for the next one...

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