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Faithless in Death
by J.D. Robb
fast-paced
<strong>Fantastic book...and eerie how prescient </strong>
Loved this latest offering in the In Death series. This one is very focused on the case and mostly takes place at the stations or working the case. Somerset gets to take a breather in this one as we don’t see a lot of him. We get a little bit of Mavis but what we get is a big, fun, interesting thing.
The story here is cleverly plotted out and twisty-turny. What starts as a likely crime of passion murder turns into so much more...horrifyingly more. And so much of the writing parallels as social commentary. The description of this cult and its followers/believers, while supposedly religious based here has an eerily familiar ring to it.
What is really freaky is how much of it turns out to be prescient. And the coincidence of release day being the day of the actual start to the second impeachment trial is something else.
I continue to be amazed that Robb can still turn out such great stories after so much time. The world building and character development is true master class status. Any author seeking to develop and maintain a series that follows the same characters over the long haul needs to do a deep dive study of JD Robb’s work from Naked in Death (1995) to Faithless in Death (2021). 52 full length novels plus a bunch of novellas. It is my all time favorite series and I have read and listened to them all over and over again. I can’t say enough about this world, these characters or this storytelling.
Loved this latest offering in the In Death series. This one is very focused on the case and mostly takes place at the stations or working the case. Somerset gets to take a breather in this one as we don’t see a lot of him. We get a little bit of Mavis but what we get is a big, fun, interesting thing.
The story here is cleverly plotted out and twisty-turny. What starts as a likely crime of passion murder turns into so much more...horrifyingly more. And so much of the writing parallels as social commentary. The description of this cult and its followers/believers, while supposedly religious based here has an eerily familiar ring to it.
What is really freaky is how much of it turns out to be prescient. And the coincidence of release day being the day of the actual start to the second impeachment trial is something else.
I continue to be amazed that Robb can still turn out such great stories after so much time. The world building and character development is true master class status. Any author seeking to develop and maintain a series that follows the same characters over the long haul needs to do a deep dive study of JD Robb’s work from Naked in Death (1995) to Faithless in Death (2021). 52 full length novels plus a bunch of novellas. It is my all time favorite series and I have read and listened to them all over and over again. I can’t say enough about this world, these characters or this storytelling.