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Creation in Death by J.D. Robb
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Creation in Death (2007)

by J.D. Robb

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Series: In Death (25)

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  romsfuulynn | Apr 28, 2013 |
Oh, I didn't rate this. Oh well, another Eve Dallas cop thriller. Sometimes you just need to scratch the itch. ( )
  akmargie | Apr 4, 2013 |
This is the first J.D. Robb book I've picked up in over two years, and I have no explanation as to why I went so long without reading about Eve and Roarke. Other things fell in my lap. My reading has slowed down considerably thanks to life and worrying about adult things. I also blame Netflix.

December is a great time for me to read fluff, and since I decided while standing in the Arruhz at the Homewood Library that HEY! I need to continue with the series, I quickly went to work. I quickly scanned to see where I had left things in a random book in the series and snatched this one off of the shelves.

Quick read, a bit more procedural than I desired for my Welcome Home party, but holy cow, what a relief it was. Do I feel an iota of shame for picking this up after finishing with the Narnia Chronicles? Why, yes, but that's because I'm an English major who had a English professor admonish me one time for wasting my time on the light and fluffy when I should be on to bigger and greater things (Rasselas, perhaps).

This is not a waste of time. It's therapy.

Good, but I want more of a home life next time for Eve and Roarke. There wasn't enough Peabody time for me to enjoy, also.

Good fun. ( )
  quillmenow | Dec 9, 2012 |
Pretty good Eve Dallas mystery with emphasis on procedural police work. The main thing I don't like about these books is the emphasis on terrorizing women -- torture and then murder. Robb's books in this series seem more often than not to go heavy on the gory and very nasty bloodthirsty deaths, especially of women. Why can't a procedural just deal with the kind of deaths that most often occurs? People killing the people they know, mostly with guns, knives and blunt instruments. ( )
  phyllis2779 | Feb 26, 2012 |
Summary from Goodreads:

"To police lieutenant Eve Dallas and her husband, Roarke, the corpse seemed like a ghoulish personalized greeting card. Not only was the young brunette victim an employee of Eve's billionaire hubby; products from his company were used in the staged crime scene. Dallas recognizes the slaying as the latest handiwork of "The Groom," an arrogant serial killer just returning from a nine-year break. What she doesn't realize immediately is that she herself is targeted as one of his next victims."

My Thoughts:

This series gets harder and harder to review the farther I get in to it because it is next to impossible to not share a spoiler here and there from past books. In this book Eve is up against a killer from a past case that was never solved. The killer seems to be taunting both Eve and Roarke, and it is turning out to be one of her toughest cases yet. What I liked about this book is that we got to see a little bit of Eve's past history as a rookie cop. This wasn't an easy case for Eve (back then and now) and it was a nice change to see her work so closely with Feeney. This series has become a comfort series for me that I go to whenever I need my Roarke and Eve fix or when I'm in the midst of a reading slump. This wasn't my favorite book of the series but it was a solid read.

This is a series that I can't help but recommend. Start at the beginning and watch as the characters grow throughout....I couldn't resist and found myself immersed in the world that Robb has created. Highly recommended!!

Bottom Line: Another great addition to one of my favorite series!

Disclosure: This book was given to me by a friend. ( )
  samantha.1020 | Dec 18, 2011 |
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Ah ! la pendule retarde toujours ;
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NYPSD Lieutenant Eve Dallas keeps the streets of a near-future New York City safe in this extraordinary series. But even she makes mistakes, and is haunted by those she couldn't save-and the killers she couldn't capture.

When the body of a young brunette is found in East River Park, Eve has seen this crime scene before: the artfully arranged body of a young brunette, arms spread, palms up, body marked by the signs of prolonged and painful torture. Carved into her torso is the time it took her to die - in hours, minutes, and seconds. And on the third finger of her left hand has been placed a silver ring.

Eve is catapulted back to a case nine years earlier, when a man whom the media tagged “The Groom”, because he put silver rings on his victims' fingers. The city had been on edge due to a killing spree that took the lives of four women in fifteen days. Eve and her partner Ryan Feeney, her friend and mentor, couldn’t stop him before he disappeared, only to resurface in other parts of the world to kill and kill again. But now The Groom seems to have come back to where he started.

This time, it becomes chillingly clear that the killer has made his attack personal: when it turns out that The Groom’s most recent victim was employed by Eve’s billionaire husband, Roarke, she brings him onto the case. A move that proves fitting when it becomes chillingly clear that the killer has made it personal. The corpse was washed in products from a store Roarke owns and laid out on a sheet his company manufactures. With the Groom’s monstrous return, Eve is determined to finish him once and for all. Familiar with his methods, she knows that he has already grabbed his next victim.

But his sights are set on the biggest challenge of his illustrious career - an abduction that will test his skills and that promises to give him satisfaction as he’s never known. Time is running out on another woman’s life... and for Eve.
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The 25th In Death novel from #1 New York Times bestselling author



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Reopening an unsolved case from years earlier when the body of a torture victim is discovered, Lieutenant Eve Dallas becomes worried when clues suggest Eve herself is being targeted.

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