Book Review: J.D. Robb’s Creation in Death
A serial killer has returned to New York, a case Eve Dallas had worked along with Feeney nine years ago. The Groom is back torturing his brides, the display he makes of them makes it personal. To Eve.
Genre: police procedural
Book Review: J.D. Robb’s Abandoned in Death
Homicide detective Eve Dallas must untangle a twisted family history while a hostage’s life hangs in the balance.
Book Review: J.D. Robb’s Visions in Death
The dead are everywhere with their eyes taken and red ribbons entangling their necks. When a psychic appears to have the details, Lieutenant Eve Dallas accepts help from her only to find the stakes raised when her partner, Dee Peabody is attacked.
Book Review: Ngaio Marsh’s Night at the Vulcan
There’s never a dull moment at the Vulcan, from the leading lady’s liaison to the harassment of an inadequate actress. But vanity and hysterics, suspicion and superstition, brandy and jealousy, are upstaged by a death on opening night.
Book Review: Ngaio Marsh’s Swing, Brother, Swing
Red-hot jazz meets cold-blooded murder. It’s lucky that Inspector Roderick Alleyn is in the audience. Now Alleyn must follow a confusing score that features a chorus of family and friends desperate to hide the truth and perhaps shelter a murderer in their midst.
Book Review: J.D. Robb’s Portrait in Death
The killer sees himself as an artist and a preserver of youth and vitality through the medium of film. Now Lieutenant Eve Dallas is on his trail.
Book Review: J.D. Robb’s Purity in Death
Fed up with criminals skating, a Purity group has come up with their own solution, delivered through a computer. No matter how you see it, Lieutenant Eve Dallas sees it as murder, and when it starts killing cops . . .
Book Review: Ngaio Marsh’s Died in the Wool
Flossie Rubrick, a highly opinionated and influential Member of the New Zealand Parliament, was last seen heading off to one of the storage sheds on her sheep farm. Three weeks later, she turned up dead and packed in a bale of her own wool. What happened on the night of her disappearance?
Book Review: J.D. Robb’s Holiday in Death
Lieutenant Eve Dallas discovers that a ritualistic serial killer’s victims are traced to New York’s most posh dating service, Personally Yours.
Book Review: Ngaio Marsh’s The Nursing Home Murder
When Britain’s Home Secretary complained of abdominal pains, it seemed like a simple case of appendicitis. But minutes after his operation, the ill-fated politician lay dead on the table. When Chief Detective-Inspector Roderick Alleyn arrives to dissect the situation, he finds many a likely suspect, including a vengeful surgeon, a lovelorn nurse, an unhappy wife, and political foes.