This book will draw you in right from the start and keep you hooked until the end. Though the evidence is inconclusive, all clues point to Roarke's faithful butler and Eve's annoying nemesis, Summerset. The two men had little in common except both had ties to a secret of ten years past, a secret that involves Eve's husband, Roarke. Police lieutenant Eve Dallas found the first victim butchered in his own home and the second in a vacant luxury apartment. The police solve the riddle but always too late to save his victims' lives. 'Justice, Eve, is weak and thin without the underpinning of retribution.' Read moreĪ madman who is an expert in computer technology and an obsession with the Virgin Mary haunts the police with cryptic riddles about the crimes he is about to commit.

Hopefully, they will soon be able to return to his homeland for leisure rather than duty.There are a lot of religious overtones in this one, the murderer a delusional zealot who likes riddles and to play games with Eve, whom he/she sees as an adequate rival, even after she ends up on the killer's list of those whom God has deemed should die for their sins. It will be Eve's job to see beyond the obvious to get to the real truth.We get a glimpse of Roarke's past as they make a quick trip to Dublin, Ireland, to deliver a body and attend a wake and funeral of an old friend. Whoever the real criminal is, he/she is a technological genius and/or has some inside connections to Roarke's business, home life, and personal history. Dallas this time around when several murders occur which tie into her husband, Roarke's, darker past and implicate his butler, Summerset, as the prime suspect. Robb#6 'In Death' seriesThe business of death hits close to home for Lt.

Vengeance in Death by J.D. Robb