Review: Glory in Death

Glory in Death by J.D. Robb
My rating: 4 of 5 stars

Three and a half stars.

Police detective Lieutenant Eve Dallas is dating gazillionaire Roarke, things aren't always easy especially when he freely tells her that he loves her but she feels unable to reciprocate.

Eve is called in to investigate the brutal murder of Prosecuting Attorney Cicely Towers but Cicely's personal relationships with Eve's immediate supervisor and his family, Roarke and Cicely's own relationship with her ex-husband and current suitor muddy the waters. Then there are strong motives for both Cicely's son and soon-to-be son-in-law. Then two other women are murdered in the same fashion, can Eve solve the crime AND keep her burgeoning relationship with Roarke on track?

I continue to like the police procedural aspects of this series, Eve, the futuristic elements of a series set in 2058 (although being written back in 1995 means some aspects are dated, such as Eve saving things to disc rather than to the cloud) and Roarke's snooty butler. What I don't like is that Roarke is so all-powerful, all-knowing that he is intimately involved in every murder and gives Eve masses of data to help her crack the cases. Heck in this he even saves her life. I thought it was too good to be true that this was a series about a strong, capable woman, Eve might be strong and capable but she still needs Roarke to save the little woman (yawn). I suppose at least he wasn't ignoring her when she says no like he did in the first book.

I will probably read the next book in the series but so far I'm not seeing what has kept readers hooked for over 50 books.

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