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Salvation in Death | 
| Author: J.d. Robb
Publisher: Putnam Adult
Category: Book
List Price: $25.95
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Rating:  50 reviews
Sales Rank: 1782
Media: Hardcover
Reading Level: Young Adult
Pages: 368
Number Of Items: 1
Shipping Weight (lbs): 1.1
Dimensions (in): 9.1 x 6.1 x 1.3
ISBN: 0399155228
Dewey Decimal Number: 813.54
EAN: 9780399155222
ASIN: 0399155228
Publication Date: November 4, 2008
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Product Description
Ancient church rituals meet cutting- edge crime solving in the latest novel in the #1 New York Timesbestselling series thats Law & Order: SVUin the future (Entertainment Weekly).
In the year 2060, sophisticated investigative tools can help catch a killer. But there are some questions even the most advanced technologies cannot answer.
Ridley Pearson has praised J. D. Robbs suspense as taut and nerve-jangling. Her latest thriller sets a new standard for suspense, as the priest at a Catholic funeral mass brings the chalice to his lipsand falls over dead.
When Detective Lieutenant Eve Dallas confirms that the consecrated wine contained potassium cyanide, shes determined to solve the murder of Father Miguel Flores, despite her discomfort with her surroundings. Its not the bodegas and pawnshops of East Harlem that bother her, though the neighborhood is a long way from the stone mansion she shares with her billionaire husband, Roarke. Its all that holiness flying around at St. Christobals that makes her uneasy.
A search of the victims sparsely furnished room reveals little except for a carefully hidden religious medal with a mysterious inscription, and a couple of underlined Bible passages. The autopsy reveals more: faint scars of knife wounds, a removed tattooand evidence of plastic surgery, suggesting that Father Flores may not have been the man his parishioners had thought. Now, as Eve pieces together clues that hint at gang connections and a deeply personal act of revenge, she believes shes making progress on the case. Until a second murderin front of an even larger crowd of worshippersknocks the whole investigation sideways. And Eve is left to figure out who committed these unholy actsand why.
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 good book January 9, 2009
R. Owen (Gresham, Oregon)
Typical of JD Robb, this is a good book, I love her characters. I lok forward to her new one
Eve is my not-so-guilty pleasure January 9, 2009
L. J. Roberts (Oakland, CA)
First Sentence: At the mass of the dead, the priest placed the wafer of unleavened bread and the cheap red wine on the linen corporal draping the alter.
Performing communion can be deadly. At least it was to the priest officiating at a funeral service. One sip of from the chalice and he is dead.
One other small problem; as Eve investigates, she discovers he's not really a priest either. Instead he is someone who appeared five years prior claiming to be, and having had facial surgery, a priest who now can't be found. Eve has to determine whether the missing priest or the impersonator was the target and who is the killer.
Robb/Roberts has not lost her touch all these books later. She still knows how to grab the reader from the very beginning and keep you going until the very end. She creates great characters and sharp, crisp, often funny dialogue that you can hear in your head and sometimes even want to read out loud.
Eve is one of my favorite female characters. She is tough, smart, somewhat socially awkward and, I'm happy to say, starting to recover from the abuse of her childhood. There are some rather graphic intimate scenes, which can be skimmed over, but also show the less tough, more vulnerable side of Eve. Her husband, Roark, Is involved in this story, but less actively than in the past.
Sense of time and place is very well done. The story is set just far enough in the future to allow for imaginative technology in electronic devices and transportation. Still, it doesn't ignore that some things continue on in time such as a woman baking bread from scratch as her grandmother once did.
The story is very well plotted. Dealing with the Catholic Church and religion could be uncomfortable or preachy, but Robb doesn't go down either of those paths. Instead it is used to demonstrate the questions of good and faith sometimes conflicting with the law, but also the desire for some to do what is right.
Lest you mistake a book written by Robb/Roberts as being light, be assured it is not. White there are moments of humor, the story is a solid police procedural with the objective always being to obtain justice for the dead.
For me, this is a great series. As long as Robb continues to write them, I'll continue to read them.
J D Robb ROCKS January 8, 2009
J. A. Olson (Albuquerque New Mexico)
I can't get enough of Eve Dallas, Roark , Shebody, Mcnabb and the rest of the gang. R D Robb doesnt disapoint in this chapter of Eve.
Series Quality Holding Strong January 7, 2009
Jem (MD, USA)
1 out of 1 found this review helpful
I just can't get enough of Eve Dallas and Roarke! This probably falls into my top ten favorites of Robb's In Death series. The mysteries keep getting more intricate, as this one fully illustrates. A mystery within a mystery. A Catholic priest drops dead during the consecration of the mass. He was poisoned. Who would poison a priest? Better yet, who would pretend to be a priest? Eve must delve into a tight-knit community to unravel the crime.
This was a great book because readers see once again that Eve is dedicated to justice, even if the victim(s) was not a total innocent and the killer(s) somewhat sympathetic. She takes every case to heart, and must unravel all aspects to get at the truth, even after the case is solved. I also liked that Peabody is once more at center stage with Eve during the investigation. And, as a Catholic, I found it funny to see Eve and Roarke wrestle with issues of faith, such as the transubstantiation and sanctity of confession. Their love and passion is as hot as ever, and anchors each mystery with something good even amidst murder and deceit. Readers see each character grow and develop, becoming more and more invested in them. This series is a must read!
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