Introducing Trudy Lombard

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	• Memory in Death J. D. Robb, Nora Roberts G.P. Putnam's Sons, 2006 - 337 pages average customer review:based on 91 reviews view larger image
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highly recommended

Character-driven mystery

'Memory in Death' was my introduction to the 'in death' series, and it took me a few pages to get my bearings, but after that I settled in for quite an enjoyable ride. While I found the identity of the killer to be relatively easy to figure out, I also found it didn't matter that I'd figured it out. The real mystery wasn't so much 'whodunnit' as 'howdunnit.' How was the murder carried out? How was it covered up? And how could it be proven?

'Memory in Death' is very much a character-driven story. Rather than being filled with action scenes or gore, this story focused on the people. Most of the details came out through dialogue rather than action, and the characters are interesting enough that I enjoyed that.

One of my first thoughts when I started reading Memory in Death was "wow, is this over-the-top." That was quickly followed however, by, "and it's perfect!" Roberts/Robb gleefully indulges in everything that makes over-the-top detective novels and mysteries fun, and infuses it with a dollop of romance for good measure. It seems clear that she's writing for the fun of it and thoroughly enjoying what she's doing, and as a result her books are equally enjoyable to read. The characters are fun, wacky, and larger-than-life; the mysteries are suitably labyrinthine; the setting is just futuristic enough to allow her to shape her world to her whim without making it alien to the reader.

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Memory in Death

This is the first in Death book that I listened to, since then I have bought all of the in Death series includeing paper back in the ones I have on CD. I enjoy them very much. I am reading them all for a second time.

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More "In Death," please!

I loved this installment of the "In Death" series because we finally get a glimpse into Eve's life after she killed her father. Eve was in foster care, and the woman she was sent to live with was a piece of work. She tormented the children in her care, and wasn't above fraud and other crimes. When she learns of Eve's marriage to wealthy Roarke, she sees her chance at the big time. She shows up on Eve's door demanding money to keep silent about her past. When she shows up dead the next day, Roarke is the number one suspect.

This was a good old fashioned murder mystery, without some of the wilder elements in previous books (clones!). Though many readers will figure out who the killer is quickly, the main draw here is Eve's single-minded focus to clear Roarke's name. And as ever, Peabody is by her side bringing humor and humanity to the tale. I also enjoyed the scenes with Roarke's personal assistant. She's a great example of a well-done minor character. I can't recommend this series enough.

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I Smell Murder

Nora Roberts Rocks! Lt. Eve Dallas makes the best protagoniost and it's like a ongoing series so there is always a new story!

Introducing Trudy Lombard

After Eve Dallas killed her father, she was taken into foster care. The first person who took her in was Trudy Lombard. Trudy Lombard, who showed her love by locking Eve in closets, who showed her care by making Eve take cold showers, and showed how good of a mother she was by not letting Eve eat, and telling her every thing that had happened to her was her fault.

Now, several years later, Eve is recovering from dealing with clones, when Trudy Lombard returns. Eve knows that Trudy isn't here for sentimental reasons, and is quickly proven corect. Trudy trys to blackmail her, and Roarke for $2 million. As is expected, they both tell her to go F#%@ her self.

Shortly affter, Trudy turns up dead, and Eve is a suspect. But she isn't the only one. As it turns out, Trudy gave many other childrne her special brand of care, and Eve soon relises shes going to have to take down some one who went through exactly what she did.

This is the most personal in Death novel. J.D. Robb did a great job of creating Lombard, and all of the kids she destroid. This is one of the best in Death novels (a few other good ones are Origin, Loyalty, Innocent, and Conspiracy in Death, all though you should read them all).

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The #1 New York Times-bestselling author of Survivor in Death has Lieutenant Eve Dallas walking a tightrope between her professional duties and her private demons.

Eve Dallas is one tough cop. She's got no problem dealing with a holiday reveler in a red suit who plunges thirty-seven stories and gives new meaning to the term "sidewalk Santa." But when she gets back to the station and Trudy Lombard shows up, it's all Eve can do to hold it together. Instantly, she's thrown back into the past, to the days when she was a vulnerable, traumatized girl-trapped in foster care with the twisted woman who now sits in front of her, smiling.

Trudy claims she just wanted to see how Eve was doing. But Eve's husband, Roarke, suspects otherwise-and his suspicions prove correct when Trudy arrives at his office, demanding money in exchange for keeping the ugly details of his wife's childhood a secret. Barely restraining himself, Roarke shows her the door-and makes it clear that she'd be wise to get out of New York and never bother him or his wife again.

But just a few days later, Trudy's found on the floor of her hotel room, a mess of bruises and blood. A cop to the core, Eve is determined to solve the case, if only for the sake of Trudy's bereaved son. Unfortunately, Eve is not the only one to have suffered at this woman's hands, and she and Roarke will follow a circuitous, dangerous path to find out who turned this victimizer into a victim.

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