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kathydavie's review against another edition
5.0
Forty-fourth in the In Death futuristic romantic suspense series and revolving around Lieutenant Eve Dallas and her hunky hubbie, Roarke. The series is set in the New York City of January 2061, less than a week since Apprentice in Death, 43.
My Take
It's all about the outrageous self-entitlement. Jesus. It's hard to believe jerks like this one exist. How do they reconcile that with reality? Oh, wait. They have no sense of reality. How do parents not see this? How do they successfully hide it from everyone when one's ego is the size of earth?
Perspective-wise, while Eve has the primary perspective, it's third-person subjective point-of-view, as we also hear Roarke's frustrations. What'cha gonna do?
It cracks me up how disappointed Eve is every time she shows up at a Roarke-owned building. It's just no fun for her!
It amazes me, every time, how the protagonists solve a mystery. The slow build-up of clues, connecting the dots, dissecting the psychological aspects, who and how all the people interweave, and the thoroughness of that slow tedium of addressing every possibility. It does help that they have some truly amazing computer capabilities. I wanna live long enough to have some of these toys!
You know that bastard Strazza was abusing his wife, but when Robb lays out the details on it…I'd've killed him myself. Just slower. Yep, it's all the indicators from isolating the victim from friends and family; verbally, physically, mentally, and emotionally abusive; the destruction of the victim's confidence; denigrating their abilities. If you know someone who fits any of this, be there for them. Help them if you can.
There's a funny bit in here in which some woman asks Dallas if she's Marlo Durn's stunt double in The Icove Agenda (Celebrity in Death, 34)…she looks just like Marlo! People. What'cha gonna do, lol…
Yep, Dallas has her classic twisted-about aphorisms: "cross the i's, dot the t's, etc. It gets so boring the other way around, *grin* I do wonder if she deliberately screws these up.
On a side note, I love the sound of Eve's new office and that "closet". And it just goes to Robb's character arc for Eve, as Eve evolves.
Yep, this one echoes for me as well.
The Story
A woman, naked, bloody, and dazed, stumbles out in front of a car one freezing night, and Lieutenant Eve Dallas springs into action.
It's the Devil, the Devil who did it. For Eve Dallas, it's a question of where he'll show up next.
The Characters
Lieutenant Eve Dallas is in charge of the Homicide Division for the NYPSD. Roarke is her gorgeous, supportive, billionaire husband always willing to lend a hand. Summerset is their majordomo.
The New York City Police and Security Department is…
…the NYPSD. Detective Delia Peabody is Dallas' partner. The rest of Homicide includes Detectives David "Horndog" Baxter, Santiago, Carmichael, Reineke, and Jenkinson of the lurid ties (he's married! With kids!). Captain Ryan Feeney is the head of the Electronic Detective Division (EDD); Detective Ian McNab is one of his bright stars and Peabody's significant other.
Detectives Nikki Olsen (she once dated Baxter) and Tredway with the Special Victims Unit investigated past cases.
Dr. Charlotte Mira is the NYPSD's chief profiler and is as a mother and a friend to Eve. Chief Tibble is in charge with Captain Jack Whitney Dallas' immediate supervisor. Cher Reo is the assistant district attorney with a departing boyfriend. Sixteen months as a teacher with Literacy Warriors in Sierra Leone!?
Friends of Dallas and Roarke's include…
…Nadine Furst, a top on-screen reporter and friend, who wrote the very popular The Icove Agenda that became a hit movie with seven Oscar nominations. Trina, beauty stylist, is the bane of Dallas' existence. Mira is now going to her, lol.
The sweet, organized Daphne Strazza is the twenty-four-year-old multiple-times victim. Dr. Anthony Strazza was a highly respected orthopedic surgeon whom everyone despised. His mother is a retired physicist; his father is a neurologist. Daphne was raised by Gayle and Barry DeSilva after her parents were killed. Tish DeSilva is passionately her sister. Strazza's first wife now lives on a sheep station in Porongurup, Australia.
Dr. Del Nobel takes a proprietary interest in Daphne's well-being. Rhoda and Jilly are some of the nurses. Officers Marilynn Walsh, Karen Lorenzo, and Zoey Russe will provide protection.
Randall Wythe of Wythe, Wythe, and Hudd is the executor of the Strazza will. Carson is his admin; Donna Midderman is the receptionist. Wythe knew Strazza for more than twenty-five years and liked him about ten days of that time. His son, Detective Nelson Wythe is under Lieutenant Mercer. Wesley Drummond is a high-end celebrity lawyer in for a rude awakening.
Victims include…
…Dr. Lucy Lake and Dr. John O'Connor. Their housekeeper, Alice, has a husband on the job, Sergeant Tom Clattery at the 1-1-3. Karl is Dr. Lake's assistant. Greg is the day doorman; Pete the night.
Rosa and Neville Patrick were newlyweds at the time; Rosa is still incredibly traumatized. Astra Patrick is Neville's mom and a screenwriter. Both Rosa and Neville are part of On Screen Productions, a video production company, in partnership with the protective Kyle Knightly, a cousin of Neville's (through their mothers); his parents are Lorinda Mercer and Quentin Knightly. Justin was a previous boyfriend of Rosa's.
Zella Haug is Neville's admin. Other employees include Boris; Micah (married to Kate); Bry; Jen; Myra Addams is with SAR; Barry; Adrianna Leo, Wendy Rush, and Joe P. Foxx are stars; Mags is their top makeup artist; Uma is in wardrobe; Max Bloombaum is the whiz at monster makeup and prosthetics; Karyn Peeks is an assistant director; and, Charles.
Ira and Lori Brinkman had returned from a Thanksgiving with family. Maxine is their housekeeper. Lori is a lawyer and writes screenplays for fun. Lori uses Arthur at Serenity for cut and color. Lilia Dominick is their "border collie"; she's fierce at keeping them corralled, organized, and on time. Chase Benson.
Xavier and Miko Carver. Nina Washington is their housekeeper and had been with Miko and/or her mom since Miko was ten. Officer Aaron was the first on-scene.
Jacko's is…
…a popular catering company that's family-run, including Uncle Jacko, his wife Gula, Xena is their daughter, her brother Noah worked as bartender, Brooksie, Hugh is a nephew, Nat, Bryar Coleson, Zach, Elroy, Lacy, Marty, Rachel, and Trevor. Anson Wright, a.k.a., George Splitsky, is a bartender/actor with some successes.
First Class is another catering company. Darcy Valentine owns Valentine Event Coordinators. Friends who have used one or both of these companies include Marlene Dressler and Rhia and Marshall Vicker, friends of the Brinkmans.
Loan Star Rentals is…
…the company you go to when you need to rent tables, chairs, etc. Carmine Rizzo is the cooperative owner. Employees include Oliver Quint (Chachie is a bad friend; Marletta was at Lorenzo's party), Luca DiNozzo, Stizzle, Charlie, and Mac.
Guests at the Strazza party included Dr. Hannity, Mrs. Wyndel, and the Brinkmans.
Potentials include artists Dana Mireball and Lorenzo Angelini; Delilah Esterby is a sexy bombshell of a model who uses sex to sell products and her husband Aidan Malloy of the seriously rich Malloys; Jacie and Roderick Corbo are trust-fund babies (I wanna be a trust-fund baby…); Gregor, chief of emergency medicine, and Camilla Jane Lester, bimbo wife; Gloria Grecian does musical comedy and her husband, Maurice Cartier, is a choreographer; and, Ann-Teresa and Ren Macari are trust-fund babies.
Toya L'Page and Gray Burroughs live in a converted church; Gemma Burroughs is Gray's very protective and annoying sister who's staying with them. Pauline is their housekeeper. Junie Wyatt is a friend of Gemma's; Catherine Frummon is her mom and Abbott Wyatt is Junie's dad.
Richard Troy was Dallas' extremely abusive father. Marco is the everyday droid; Astra is the sex droid programmed for some really disgusting activities, well, disgusting because she's programmed to want the violence.
The Cover and Title
The cover is speckled strokes of yellow raying down to the Flatiron Building in this red-hazed city street scene. The author's name is HUGE in an embossed black against that yellow while the title is an embossed white at the bottom.
The title is the reverberations Eve and Roarke experience throughout the story, Echoes in Death.
My Take
It's all about the outrageous self-entitlement. Jesus. It's hard to believe jerks like this one exist. How do they reconcile that with reality? Oh, wait. They have no sense of reality. How do parents not see this? How do they successfully hide it from everyone when one's ego is the size of earth?
Perspective-wise, while Eve has the primary perspective, it's third-person subjective point-of-view, as we also hear Roarke's frustrations. What'cha gonna do?
It cracks me up how disappointed Eve is every time she shows up at a Roarke-owned building. It's just no fun for her!
It amazes me, every time, how the protagonists solve a mystery. The slow build-up of clues, connecting the dots, dissecting the psychological aspects, who and how all the people interweave, and the thoroughness of that slow tedium of addressing every possibility. It does help that they have some truly amazing computer capabilities. I wanna live long enough to have some of these toys!
You know that bastard Strazza was abusing his wife, but when Robb lays out the details on it…I'd've killed him myself. Just slower. Yep, it's all the indicators from isolating the victim from friends and family; verbally, physically, mentally, and emotionally abusive; the destruction of the victim's confidence; denigrating their abilities. If you know someone who fits any of this, be there for them. Help them if you can.
There's a funny bit in here in which some woman asks Dallas if she's Marlo Durn's stunt double in The Icove Agenda (Celebrity in Death, 34)…she looks just like Marlo! People. What'cha gonna do, lol…
Yep, Dallas has her classic twisted-about aphorisms: "cross the i's, dot the t's, etc. It gets so boring the other way around, *grin* I do wonder if she deliberately screws these up.
On a side note, I love the sound of Eve's new office and that "closet". And it just goes to Robb's character arc for Eve, as Eve evolves.
Yep, this one echoes for me as well.
The Story
A woman, naked, bloody, and dazed, stumbles out in front of a car one freezing night, and Lieutenant Eve Dallas springs into action.
It's the Devil, the Devil who did it. For Eve Dallas, it's a question of where he'll show up next.
The Characters
Lieutenant Eve Dallas is in charge of the Homicide Division for the NYPSD. Roarke is her gorgeous, supportive, billionaire husband always willing to lend a hand. Summerset is their majordomo.
The New York City Police and Security Department is…
…the NYPSD. Detective Delia Peabody is Dallas' partner. The rest of Homicide includes Detectives David "Horndog" Baxter, Santiago, Carmichael, Reineke, and Jenkinson of the lurid ties (he's married! With kids!). Captain Ryan Feeney is the head of the Electronic Detective Division (EDD); Detective Ian McNab is one of his bright stars and Peabody's significant other.
Detectives Nikki Olsen (she once dated Baxter) and Tredway with the Special Victims Unit investigated past cases.
Dr. Charlotte Mira is the NYPSD's chief profiler and is as a mother and a friend to Eve. Chief Tibble is in charge with Captain Jack Whitney Dallas' immediate supervisor. Cher Reo is the assistant district attorney with a departing boyfriend. Sixteen months as a teacher with Literacy Warriors in Sierra Leone!?
Friends of Dallas and Roarke's include…
…Nadine Furst, a top on-screen reporter and friend, who wrote the very popular The Icove Agenda that became a hit movie with seven Oscar nominations. Trina, beauty stylist, is the bane of Dallas' existence. Mira is now going to her, lol.
The sweet, organized Daphne Strazza is the twenty-four-year-old multiple-times victim. Dr. Anthony Strazza was a highly respected orthopedic surgeon whom everyone despised. His mother is a retired physicist; his father is a neurologist. Daphne was raised by Gayle and Barry DeSilva after her parents were killed. Tish DeSilva is passionately her sister. Strazza's first wife now lives on a sheep station in Porongurup, Australia.
Dr. Del Nobel takes a proprietary interest in Daphne's well-being. Rhoda and Jilly are some of the nurses. Officers Marilynn Walsh, Karen Lorenzo, and Zoey Russe will provide protection.
Randall Wythe of Wythe, Wythe, and Hudd is the executor of the Strazza will. Carson is his admin; Donna Midderman is the receptionist. Wythe knew Strazza for more than twenty-five years and liked him about ten days of that time. His son, Detective Nelson Wythe is under Lieutenant Mercer. Wesley Drummond is a high-end celebrity lawyer in for a rude awakening.
Victims include…
…Dr. Lucy Lake and Dr. John O'Connor. Their housekeeper, Alice, has a husband on the job, Sergeant Tom Clattery at the 1-1-3. Karl is Dr. Lake's assistant. Greg is the day doorman; Pete the night.
Rosa and Neville Patrick were newlyweds at the time; Rosa is still incredibly traumatized. Astra Patrick is Neville's mom and a screenwriter. Both Rosa and Neville are part of On Screen Productions, a video production company, in partnership with the protective Kyle Knightly, a cousin of Neville's (through their mothers); his parents are Lorinda Mercer and Quentin Knightly. Justin was a previous boyfriend of Rosa's.
Zella Haug is Neville's admin. Other employees include Boris; Micah (married to Kate); Bry; Jen; Myra Addams is with SAR; Barry; Adrianna Leo, Wendy Rush, and Joe P. Foxx are stars; Mags is their top makeup artist; Uma is in wardrobe; Max Bloombaum is the whiz at monster makeup and prosthetics; Karyn Peeks is an assistant director; and, Charles.
Ira and Lori Brinkman had returned from a Thanksgiving with family. Maxine is their housekeeper. Lori is a lawyer and writes screenplays for fun. Lori uses Arthur at Serenity for cut and color. Lilia Dominick is their "border collie"; she's fierce at keeping them corralled, organized, and on time. Chase Benson.
Xavier and Miko Carver. Nina Washington is their housekeeper and had been with Miko and/or her mom since Miko was ten. Officer Aaron was the first on-scene.
Jacko's is…
…a popular catering company that's family-run, including Uncle Jacko, his wife Gula, Xena is their daughter, her brother Noah worked as bartender, Brooksie, Hugh is a nephew, Nat, Bryar Coleson, Zach, Elroy, Lacy, Marty, Rachel, and Trevor. Anson Wright, a.k.a., George Splitsky, is a bartender/actor with some successes.
First Class is another catering company. Darcy Valentine owns Valentine Event Coordinators. Friends who have used one or both of these companies include Marlene Dressler and Rhia and Marshall Vicker, friends of the Brinkmans.
Loan Star Rentals is…
…the company you go to when you need to rent tables, chairs, etc. Carmine Rizzo is the cooperative owner. Employees include Oliver Quint (Chachie is a bad friend; Marletta was at Lorenzo's party), Luca DiNozzo, Stizzle, Charlie, and Mac.
Guests at the Strazza party included Dr. Hannity, Mrs. Wyndel, and the Brinkmans.
Potentials include artists Dana Mireball and Lorenzo Angelini; Delilah Esterby is a sexy bombshell of a model who uses sex to sell products and her husband Aidan Malloy of the seriously rich Malloys; Jacie and Roderick Corbo are trust-fund babies (I wanna be a trust-fund baby…); Gregor, chief of emergency medicine, and Camilla Jane Lester, bimbo wife; Gloria Grecian does musical comedy and her husband, Maurice Cartier, is a choreographer; and, Ann-Teresa and Ren Macari are trust-fund babies.
Toya L'Page and Gray Burroughs live in a converted church; Gemma Burroughs is Gray's very protective and annoying sister who's staying with them. Pauline is their housekeeper. Junie Wyatt is a friend of Gemma's; Catherine Frummon is her mom and Abbott Wyatt is Junie's dad.
Richard Troy was Dallas' extremely abusive father. Marco is the everyday droid; Astra is the sex droid programmed for some really disgusting activities, well, disgusting because she's programmed to want the violence.
The Cover and Title
The cover is speckled strokes of yellow raying down to the Flatiron Building in this red-hazed city street scene. The author's name is HUGE in an embossed black against that yellow while the title is an embossed white at the bottom.
The title is the reverberations Eve and Roarke experience throughout the story, Echoes in Death.
carlam2190's review against another edition
4.0
Would have been a 3 except for the twist in the epilogue. I missed personal interaction with the gang, there wasn't enough of it. But I did like seeing some Eve and Galahad loving.
laurenb4life's review against another edition
Another awesome story!! Already counting down the days till the next J.D. Robb story come out!! September can't get here soon enough!! Absolutely love this series!!
heabooknerd's review against another edition
3.0
I enjoyed this one more than the last in this series; there was something that almost reminded me of the early books in the series. Eve was really enjoyable in this one. She was tough but also soft and it was a really nice balance. I’ve always liked how strong Eve is but after 44 books and countless novellas, she can feel a bit like a one trick pony. The vulnerability she shows really helps to expand her character and keep her fleshed out.
Roarke has been a fantastic hero from the very beginning and I always love the scenes that include him. But in previous books it’s seemed like he does an awful lot of police work and I’m not talking about the research or electronics digging. I liked that Roarke took a step back in the investigation and wasn’t busting down doors and dodging bullets.
Maybe I’ve just read too many murder mysteries, but I figured out an aspect of the ending almost from the very beginning. I don’t think this has anything to do with JD Robb’s writing other than just being a bit predictable.
Roarke has been a fantastic hero from the very beginning and I always love the scenes that include him. But in previous books it’s seemed like he does an awful lot of police work and I’m not talking about the research or electronics digging. I liked that Roarke took a step back in the investigation and wasn’t busting down doors and dodging bullets.
Maybe I’ve just read too many murder mysteries, but I figured out an aspect of the ending almost from the very beginning. I don’t think this has anything to do with JD Robb’s writing other than just being a bit predictable.
katyanaish's review against another edition
5.0
I'm not sure why, but I figured out what happened in this one insanely early on. Maybe it's because I've been binging all 385674756 books in this series and so my brain is trained to the author's process, but yeah, I saw it straight away.
It didn't matter, though, because it was great. Compelling case, heartbreaking situation for the victims, and a real struggle for Eve given the parallels with her own life.
I have to say
This one is a favorite in the series, and definitely is one I'll revisit.
It didn't matter, though, because it was great. Compelling case, heartbreaking situation for the victims, and a real struggle for Eve given the parallels with her own life.
I have to say
Spoiler
I'm glad it didn't end up with the killer targeting Roarke and Eve, given that they fit the profile. It could easily have gone there, but I feel like ... the echoes of her own life were already enough, and were perfect. Finding herself in that situation would have been a bridge too far.This one is a favorite in the series, and definitely is one I'll revisit.
madisonwfairbanks's review against another edition
dark
mysterious
tense
fast-paced
- Plot- or character-driven? Plot
- Strong character development? No
- Loveable characters? Yes
- Diverse cast of characters? Yes
- Flaws of characters a main focus? No
5.0
Echoes in Death by J D Robb
In Death series #44. Futuristic police procedural. Best read as part of the series.
As NY Lt. Eve Dallas and her billionaire husband, Roarke, are driving home one night, a young woman stumbles out in front of of their car. She’s dazed, naked, and bloody and Eve begins the police investigation. The victim’s husband is dead and there are clear signs beatings, rape and burglary. When a second couple is found in the same condition, Eve and her team must tie all the pieces together to find the perpetrator before he strikes again.
Fast moving and intense, Eve and her team plus Roarke as specialist, search buildings, financial statements and electronics to find a killer.
These last few books have been especially grim and bloody. It’s all described in third person, past tense, so the reader is not actually active in the scene, but Eve visualizes how the evidence shows what happened, and it can be ugly.
Secondary characters are recurring and add depth to the story continuity as well as a bit of levity with clothing or vocabulary choices.
I’m instantly drawn into this world over and over again. It never disappoints.
charitypink's review against another edition
5.0
4.5 Stars - A favorite so far from the series. This series never disappoints, and the character development is always a lovely time. So glad I picked this series back up!
bunrab's review against another edition
4.0
I almost gave this only three stars, because the "improbably clever and scheming villain who improbably has never been noticed/caught before and who has /really/ improbable exotic psychological twists" trope is getting a little old. But the interactions between Dallas and Peabody are still fun, and the path of detection still depends on data team grunt work rather than the rogue single avenging type that some other long-running series have. I like teamwork.