Faithless in Death: An Eve Dallas Novel

· St. Martin's Press
4.6
210 reviews
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In the new Eve Dallas police thriller from #1 New York Times-bestselling author J. D. Robb, what looked like a lover’s quarrel turned fatal has larger—and more terrifying—motives behind it...

The scene in the West Village studio appears to be classic crime-of-passion: two wineglasses by the bed, music playing, and a young sculptor named Ariel Byrd with the back of her head bashed in. But when Dallas tracks down the wealthy Upper East Side woman who called 911, the details don’t add up. Gwen Huffman is wealthy, elegant, comforted by her handsome fiancé as she sheds tears over the trauma of finding the body—but why did it take an hour to report it? And why is she lying about little things?

As Eve and her team look into Gwen, her past, and the people around her, they find that the lies are about more than murder. As with sculpture, they need to chip away at the layers of deception to find the shape within—and soon they’re getting the FBI involved in a case that involves a sinister, fanatical group and a stunning criminal conspiracy.

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4.6
210 reviews
johnie ONEAL
March 13, 2021
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.
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Yolonda Walker
April 18, 2021
I some times think that Nora is getting tired of this series and is just throwing words together to fulfill an obligation. Much rather read her earlier books in this series. I have purchased them all and there was a time I could not wait for them to hit the market. I now wait until they come in paper back so that I don't waste my monies. I don't think we should be bombarded with writers personal beliefs when they are writing fiction. That is were people go to escape every day life. Sad, because she was almost the last good fiction writer in our time. My opinion.
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Ginna Swick
February 18, 2021
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
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About the author

J.D. ROBB is the pseudonym for #1 New York Times bestselling author Nora Roberts. She is the author of over 200 novels, including the futuristic suspense In Death series. There are more than 500 million copies of her books in print.

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