Faithless in Death: An Eve Dallas Novel

Loved reading the exciting and entertaining suspenseful story. Eve and Peabody along with other officers in the Police Department including Eve's husband, Roarcke, and the FBI work on a case together involving a religious organization. Read the highly recommended, wonderfully written, and a must read riveting story full of mystery and intrigue by the phenomenally talented author, J.D. Robb.

After the testosterone flow unleashed in Book number 51, Shadows in Death, of the "In Death" series when Roarke and arch-enemy from the distance past, Cobbe, resorted to fisticuffs as a form of justice before Cobbe was taken into custody and prosecuted for his global assignation pogrom, I found the enormous amount of time spent in Book number 52, Faithless in Death, describing the LT’s coordination of the strike force to be used against the Natural Order a waste of writing. Because of that, it did not display any of Eve’s abilities we have read before in other books, notably the international takedown of Cobbe. Also, ,Robb’s use of the current political climate as a backdrop for the philosophies of the Trump reign of four years makes me wonder how relevant that might be in, say, ten years. Let us hope that there will be no trump presidential candidacy in 2024 that revives the beliefs of subjugating women and segregation by race, class, and sex. Robb’s use of these plot devices is, in and of itself, not objectionable but appears too facile for a series until the last two books I had bought and read with delight. That delight has morphed into boredom, something I regret. It also makes me wonder if this series has run its course, much like Evanovitch’s Plum series has reached a terminus. As a Robb fan who has bought all the "In Death" books, I saddens me to write this critique but someone must raise this objection. Thank you.

I love this series. JD Robb creates strong characters. Lt. Eve Dallas and her filthy rich former bad boy husband Roark, make a good team. Along with Dallas's team with the NYPD cases are closed, killer's are apprehended and justice is served. I had never got the audo book before so I decided to this time. If you are thinking about getting the audio, my advice is Don't do it!! The same great characters are there, the action is just as good as her usual work. It's all there. But the narration is horrible. It's As if she is trying too hard to make the individual characters her own, but it doesn't work. Somehow her voice just makes them Irritating. I really wish I had just bought the printed version. If it weren't for that, I would rate it 5 stars