Lieutenant Eve Dallas walks the thin line between love and hate in this fabulous 40th thriller from #1 New York Times–bestseller J. D. Robb…
Eve Dallas has solved a lot of high-profile murders for the NYPSD and
gotten a lot of media. She—and her billionaire husband—are getting
accustomed to being objects of attention, of gossip, of speculation.
But now Eve has become the object of one person’s obsession. Someone
who finds her extraordinary, and thinks about her every hour of every
day. Who believes the two of them have a special relationship. Who would
kill for her—again and again…
With a murderer reading
meanings into her every move, handling this case will be a delicate—and
dangerous—psychological dance. And Eve knows that underneath the worship
and admiration, a terrible threat lies in wait. Because the beautiful
lieutenant is not at all grateful for these bloody offerings from her
“true and loyal friend.” And in time, idols always fall…
Published: 19th February 2015 Publisher: Piatkus Books Author Website: Click here Goodreads : Click here Series or Stand-Alone: Book 40, In Death Series Source: Review Copy from Publisher
My Review
What I loved about this book...
Now this book was a complete surprise to me reading it. I am not normally one who likes or gravitates to the crime and murder type stories but when I read the blurb for this one I knew that I had to give it a go, especially given the fact that it was written by Nora Roberts under her alias author name. I already loved Nora Roberts' writing so I was very interested in seeing how I would get on with this book. I loved it! What I loved the most about this book was the suspense. This story got me suspecting nearly everybody and did such a great job in introducing each character, what they do etc. Being new to this series and characters, I was a bit worried that I would not pick up the story or the characters but it really didn't matter that I hadn't read all the books before it (all 39 of them lol!). You can definitely read this as a stand alone but I am definitely more intrigued to collect and read all the others in the series (and it's going to take me a while to collect and read being that this is book 40 lol!).
Eleanor
Marie Robertson was born on October 10, 1950 in Silver Spring,
Maryland, U.S.A. She was the youngest of the five children, also the
only girl, of a marriage with Irish ancestors. Her family were avid
readers, so books were always important in her life. She attended a
Catholic school and credits the nuns with instilling in her a sense of
discipline. During her sophomore year in high school, she transferred to
a local public school, where she met Ronald Aufdem-Brinke, her future
first husband.
In August 17, 1968, as soon as she had graduated
from High School, Eleanor married, against her parents' wishes. The
marriage settled in Keedysville, Maryland. Her husband worked at his
father's sheet-metal business before joining her parents in their
lighting company. While, she worked briefly as a legal secretary. "I
could type fast but couldn't spell, I was the worst legal secretary
ever," she says now. After their sons, Dan and Jason, were born she
stayed home. Calling this her "Earth Mother" years, she spent much of
her time doing crafts, including ceramics and sewing her children's
clothes. The marriage ended separating, and they obtained the divorce in
January 1985.
In February 1979, a blizzard in forced her hand to
try another creative outlet. She was snowed in with a three and six
year old with no kindergarten respite in sight and a dwindling supply of
chocolate. During the now famous blizzard, she pulled out a pencil and
notebook and began to write down one of those stories. It was there that
a career was born. Several manuscripts and rejections later, her first
book, Irish Thoroughbred, was published by Silhouette in 1981 as Nora
Roberts, a shortened form of her birth name Eleanor Marie Robertson,
because she assumed that all authors had pen names.
Eleanor wrote under the pseudonym Jill March a story for a magazine titled "Melodies of Love".
Eleanor
met her second husband, Bruce Wilder, when she hired him to build
bookshelves. They were married in July 1985. Her husband owns and
operates a bookstore in Boonsboro, Maryland called "Turn the Page
Books". Since that time, they've expanded their home, traveled the
world.
In 1992, she decided adopted other pseudonym so to publish
a futuristic-suspense novels, she first decided to use the pseudonym
D.J. MacGregor, but she discovered that this pseudonym was used by
another author. In 1995, her first "In Death" serial novel was published
under the pseudonym J.D. Robb, the initials "J.D." were taken from her
sons, Jason and Dan, while "Robb" is a shortened form of Roberts.
Eleanor
has also been known as Sara Hardesty, because when the "Born In" series
was released in U.K. it carried that name instead of Nora Roberts. She
has since changed publishers.
Eleanor has been plagiarized by
another best-selling romance writer, Janet Dailey. The practice came to
light after a reader read Nora Roberts' "Sweet Revenge" and Janet
Dailey's "Notorious" back-to-back; she noticed several similarities and
posted the comparable passages on the Internet. Calling the plagiarism
"mind rape," Eleanor sued Janet Daily. In 1997, Janet, admitted to
repeatedly plagiarizing from Nora Roberts' work, and that both "Aspen
Gold" and "Notorious" lifted heavily from Nora Roberts's work. Both of
those novels were pulled from print after Janet's admission. She
acknowledged the plagiarism and blamed it on a psychological disorder.
In a settlement, Janet paid Eleanor an undisclosed sum, which Eleanor
donated to the Literacy Volunteers of America.
A founding member
of the Romance Writers of America (R.W.A.), she was the first inductee
in the organization's Hall of Fame. She also is a member of several
writers groups and has won countless award
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