baronessekat | 2022 Reading Challenge: two book sset in sister cities (Book #1

Delusion in Death by J.D. Robb

My rating: 4 of 5 stars

After work drinks with coworkers and meeting with friends for dinner is pretty SOP for the business folks of NYC. But what is not SOP is everyone in a bar going insane and attacking each other. Within a span of 12 minutes over 80 people are dead and many others hospitalized.

Lt. Eve Dallas scrambles to figure out what has happened and why. But then the next day a small cafe is hit at lunchtime. Same strange behavior and homicidal actions. It is no longer an isolated incident and with the body count over 100, Homeland Security is brought in because the situation is now classified as domestic terrorism.

So now Eve needs to work with Feds after having bad experiences with HSO, deal with media trying to blow the situation up further AND find the person or persons behind this before they strike again.

+++++

I found this installment of the In Death series rather compelling. Yes it had the requisite sex scene between Eve and Roarke, but it was early on and did not slow down the pace of the plot. The overall pacing, investigation steps and character interaction all made sense and didn't leave me going "wait, what, how?" like I have done with some of the past books in the series.

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