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Salvation in Death (In Death) | 
 enlarge | Author: J.d. Robb
Publisher: Putnam Adult
Category: Book
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Rating:  35 reviews
Sales Rank: 352
Media: Hardcover
Reading Level: Young Adult
Pages: 368
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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 (New: Last 30 Days)
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Product Description
Ancient church rituals meet cutting- edge crime solving in the latest novel in the #1 New York Times bestselling series that s Law & Order: SVU in 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. Robb s 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 lips and falls over dead.
When Detective Lieutenant Eve Dallas confirms that the consecrated wine contained potassium cyanide, she s determined to solve the murder of Father Miguel Flores, despite her discomfort with her surroundings. It s 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. It s all that holiness flying around at St. Christobal s that makes her uneasy.
A search of the victim s 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 tattoo and 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 she s making progress on the case. Until a second murder in front of an even larger crowd of worshippers knocks the whole investigation sideways. And Eve is left to figure out who committed these unholy acts and why.
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 Disappointing and illogical December 4, 2008
little dog laughed (Oklahoma)
This book got off to a great start, but what a disappointment afterwards. I agree with the other reviewers who said this seemed phone in. I also have 2 other issues. The murdered priest started out as a "good" guy who was praised for his work with the children of the parish. ****Spoiler alert**** Then we find out that he was a former gang member who had orchestrated the bombing and killing of several people. It is interesting and telling that Robb has the priest reportedly arguing with another priest about redemption thru good works. The priest could have been a much more interesting character, but suddenly the priest becomes a con artist and a murderer with no redeeming qualities. It's almost like he's a different person in the second half of the book. My other issue is that Eve makes such a big deal over collaring the priest's murder because murder is never justified. However, she certainly doesn't think that Roarke murdered Marlena's murderers. Robb has Eve and Roarke talk about this interminably in the book, but she never adequately justifies why Roarke's actions in the taking the law in his own hands are different than the actions of the one who did so for the priest. I really enjoy all of Robb's characters and most of her storytelling. But she is definitely not up to par with this book.
Soul Savers in the Hot Seat December 3, 2008
E. Day (Texas)
Good Eve & Roake romp as always. Still love the fast paced dialogue between the main characters. Love the visit with good friends I get in every book... but I missed at least a short look in on Louise & Charles other than a mention of a shower. Enjoyed the look into the graceful old rituals versus the carnival atmosphere that is the modern religious practices of the mega church neither is completely accurate to its partcipants but are easy targets for the murder minded.
 kind of disappointed December 3, 2008
Deborah J. Wilbanks (Buffalo,NY USA)
1 out of 1 found this review helpful
i own every "eve dallas" book ever published, and when i get my hands on a new one, everything stops and i start reading till im done with it....but this latest one, i got 2 weeks ago and i just cant get into it, its about 1/4 read...i'll finish it to be sure, but its not what i expected, to many characters or something...cant wait for the next one!
 Great read. November 30, 2008
E. Byrne (Ypsilanti, MI United States)
This was a great addition to this series. It just keeps getting better with every book. I can't wait for the next one.
 Eve's teeth have been pulled November 29, 2008
K. N. Nelson (California, USA)
0 out of 1 found this review helpful
Gone is the hard, precise scalpel like honed edge of Eve's character. Nora Roberts/J.D.Robb has reduced Eve to a hologram of the simpering female characters with which she populates her "romance" novels. The author has Eve becoming "gooey" over Roarke having white petunias planted in the yard. She has reduced Eve and Roarke into white trash behavior having sex in their car and yammering about b.j.s and other vulgar, crude and low class sex talk. Long gone is the amusing and snarky repartee between Eve and Peabody. Delia has devolved into a sullen, sulking glutton with her sole focus upon cramming food into her fat face and having sex with Mc Nab.
I was once such a fan of this series, but the author has wrecked the futuristic vibe with the same, maddening repetitiveness with which she wrecked her romance novels. NO ONE talks in such truncated and circular dialog unless they have a malfunction of their nervous system and speech centers in the brain. Robb has her characters repeat, repeat, repeat the same words multiple times in sentences and paragraphs until you want to throw the book at the wall. One can hope that by the year 2061, people would have graduated to a more sophisticated and elegant style of language and manner of speaking. The author has taken away the brash, steely toughness which WAS the essence of Eve and holds her up to mockery of what she has been in the prior books of this series. Maybe that is the answer: The real Eve is now a has been. Robb harps on the same old issue of Eve's childhood rape by and murder of her father in each and EVERY story. This time it was just too much of the same cut and paste junk. I found myself skipping pages until it was done.
Eve's caffeine addiction and constant sucking up coffee while looking haggard or fighting over eating various foods is old and tired as well. Worse, Feeney, Mira, even the tiresome Mavis are rendered flat and boring. The story line could be interesting if it hadn't gotten lost in blah, boredom and the mishmash of too many one dimensional characters. The copycat murder of a fundamentalist christian preacher lost in lust and alcoholism along with the murder of a hispanic priest during mass made it difficult to sustain even the slightest bit of interest. Murder and Mayhem in Spanish Harlem? Yawn. Like other reviewers have noted, Salvation in Death was "phoned in". Too often drek like this is what happens when authors take their audience for granted. In this case, Roberts/Robb could take a page from the peerless Mave Binchey and take a sabbatical from writing before she generates more of the same.
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