Prior to picking up Dark In Death to read, I had never read a JD Robb novel so I didn’t really know what to expect and therefore had an open mind as to how it would be. I had briefly read the synopsis of it but hadn’t paid too much attention to the detail of it all.
Anyway I started to read and the plot kicked off in New York, with a gruesome stabbing of a young lady as she sat in the cinema watching the shower scene from ‘Psycho’, the old Alfred Hitchcock thriller. No one in the audience really noticed the what went on as they were too busy watch the movie on the screen and the killer slips out unnoticed.
Lieutenant Eve Dallas leads the investigation and is searching for clues as to who the murderer is and their motive for killing the victim. With little information coming her way and the story of the murder breaking in the news, Lieutenant Dallas is surprised when a top crime thriller author pays her a worried visit claiming that the murder is based upon one of her books.
This leads Dallas and her team looking into the books of the author and other recent murders to see if there is a link and one is quickly established to a previous book. CCTV from the cinema provides them with a breakthrough when they spot an individual going into the cinema in one jacket and coming out in what appears to be another but the shoes are the same and Dallas aided with the help of her philanthropist husband start searching for the suspect and the potential next victims based upon the authors book.
In between love making with her husband, she is hot on the heels of the killer and looking to piece together who they actually are, but Dallas is too slow in stopping the next killing. However by putting herself into one of the author’s stories she attempts to tease them out into the open and stop them before anyone else is brutally murdered.
Dark In Death was an ok crime thriller but my hang up with it was, that every so often there was a bit of terminology used that didn’t sit right with a modern day crime thriller when so many other things did. It then led me to go back and read the synopsis for the plot in full and I found that actually it was set in New York in the year 2057. This confused me further as so much of the storyline was written in a way that nothing had really advanced between the present day and 2057 and if Robb had left out references to speaking to an autogrill to prepare food it could just have been written for 2018. Also my other hang up with this book was that Robb went into a lot of detail about how Dallas and her husband go from room to room in their big house every night making love. It just didn’t fit into the story and was quite random !!
As a result despite the ok reasonable story line, this anomaly and the fact that it had been poorly done left me feeling disappointed with the book and providing a rating of only 4 out of 10.
For a holiday read on a cruise, I would probably put this one much further down your list but if you do read it, to me it was the sort of novel you read shortly before going to bed. The lesson for me with this book is check the synopsis is more detail before choosing to read as if I had I may not have read it in the first place !! Oh well lesson learnt.
So more information on the author JD Robb and her books can be found on her website under her real name of Nora Roberts http://www.noraroberts.com/
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