listened on Audible
1995 Berkley Publishing Group
306 pgs.
Adult murder mystery/police procedural
Finished 4/22/2018
Goodreads rating: 4.12 - 138,089 ratings
My rating: 4
Setting: 2058ish NYC
First line/s: "She woke in the dark. Through the slats on the window shades, the first murky hint of dawn slipped. slanting shadowy bars over the bead."
My comments: I notated five or six years ago that I’d read this book and that I didn’t like it. However, I’m not sure what book I read but it wasn’t this one. Nothing was familiar, not even the teeniest tiniest detail. Mystery – excellent. New York City of the future – worked nicely. Large amount of romance/sex between the protagonist and the too-good-to-be-true first suspect – not so much. If Roarke is always going to be immediately on hand with every possible transport or helpful technological aide, I’m not going to like further books at all. Dallas’s sort-of-partner Feeney is likeable, as is her boss. It was read really well, great different voices and accents. OK, I’ll try number two!
Goodreads synopsis: Here is the novel that started it all- the first book in J.D. Robb's number-one New York Times-bestselling In Death series, featuring New York homicide detective Lieutenant Eve Dallas and Roarke.
It is the year 2058, and technology now completely rules the world. But New York City Detective Eve Dallas knows that the irresistible impulses of the human heart are still ruled by just one thing: passion.
When a senator's daughter is killed, the secret life of prostitution she'd been leading is revealed. The high-profile case takes Lieutenant Eve Dallas into the rarefied circles of Washington politics and society. Further complicating matters is Eve's growing attraction to Roarke, who is one of the wealthiest and most influential men on the planet, devilishly handsome... and the leading suspect in the investigation.
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