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59th out of 114 books
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Interlude in Death (In Death #12.5)
by
J.D. Robb
In early spring of 2059, Lieutenant Eve Dallas is called off planet to face a grueling ordeal - giving a seminar at the largest police conference of the year, to be held in a swanky resort. A resort which just happens to be owned by her husband, Roarke, of course.
Even though Eve can't quite see it that way, it's supposed to be at least partly a vacation. But work intrudes...more
Even though Eve can't quite see it that way, it's supposed to be at least partly a vacation. But work intrudes...more
Mass Market Paperback, 88 pages
Published
August 29th 2006
by Berkley
(first published August 2001)
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How Robb manages to make the In Death novellas as good as the novels, I do not know, but she does.
This was fast and enthralling, funny and with a hint of exotic, what with the stage being set off-planet and on the Olympus Resort. The characters were a good surprise and put Eve to the test - whether she's good at fighting those pesky little vices called prejudice and personal disdain, which plague everyone at one point or another. She came out the victor, putting her issues aside and going throug...more
This was fast and enthralling, funny and with a hint of exotic, what with the stage being set off-planet and on the Olympus Resort. The characters were a good surprise and put Eve to the test - whether she's good at fighting those pesky little vices called prejudice and personal disdain, which plague everyone at one point or another. She came out the victor, putting her issues aside and going throug...more
#12.5 in the In Death series. This novella has Homicide Lt. Eve Dallas attending an off-planet police convention and scheduled to present a seminar. The presentation terrifies Eve much more than does her normal occupation of tracking down murderers. Once the convention is disrupted by murder (it is a mystery!), it is interesting to see the interaction of Eve, used to being in charge of an investigation, being forced to play nice with Police Chief Darcia Angelo.
#12.5 In Death series - In early sp...more
#12.5 In Death series - In early sp...more
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Eve Dallas has been forced by her commander to go off-planet to a police conference that’s being held at Roarke’s Olympus resort. And she will also have to be a speaker while she’s there. Peabody, Feeney, and Dr. Mira are all in attendance as well.
She quickly meets Commander Skinner, a retired police legend who doesn’t think to highly of her. He wastes no time telling her that he believes woman have no place on the force and their job is to...more
Beware of Spoilers!
Eve Dallas has been forced by her commander to go off-planet to a police conference that’s being held at Roarke’s Olympus resort. And she will also have to be a speaker while she’s there. Peabody, Feeney, and Dr. Mira are all in attendance as well.
She quickly meets Commander Skinner, a retired police legend who doesn’t think to highly of her. He wastes no time telling her that he believes woman have no place on the force and their job is to...more
In early spring of 2059, Lieutenant Eve Dallas is called off planet to face a grueling ordeal - giving a seminar at the largest police conference of the year, to be held in a swanky resort. A resort which just happens to be owned by her husband, Roarke, of course. Even though Eve can't quite see it that way, it's supposed to be at least partly a vacation. But work intrudes in the form of a bloody homicide, and Eve is off and running. The case is complicated by Eve's personal history with the vi
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Not only is Eve required to speak at the largest police conference of the year, which she hates, but in order to do so she must travel off planet, something she hates even more. While there she comes face to face with an unknown assailant who has a personal vendetta against both Roake and herself. This is a good futuristic suspense novella featuring Lieutenant Eve Dallas. She is a tough, smart, likeable homicide detective. In each book she solves a crime and finds th...more
Not only is Eve required to speak at the largest police conference of the year, which she hates, but in order to do so she must travel off planet, something she hates even more. While there she comes face to face with an unknown assailant who has a personal vendetta against both Roake and herself. This is a good futuristic suspense novella featuring Lieutenant Eve Dallas. She is a tough, smart, likeable homicide detective. In each book she solves a crime and finds th...more
Eve Dallas is not happy. Her commanding officer has arranged for her to do a speech at the interplanetary police conference which being held at husband Roarke's spectacular new Olympia resort. Yep, off planet, so this involves all the things she detests most in life – attending social events, public speaking and above all space travel.
On Eve’s first night there she is ordered to meet police hero Commander Douglas R. Skinner by his thuggish body guards, and it is not a happy experience. Skinner m...more
On Eve’s first night there she is ordered to meet police hero Commander Douglas R. Skinner by his thuggish body guards, and it is not a happy experience. Skinner m...more
Eve Dallas and her delicious husband Roarke once again face disorder and flagrant disconern for the law, this time in comes while they are attending an off-planet police conference that is being held at - wait for it - a snazzy resort that Roarke owns. The series of murders set up Roarke to take the fall, and Eve with him, in a case that hinges on the sins of the father.
Normally, I find these brief anthology contributions to the In Death series to be too brief and lacking in depth, however, this...more
Normally, I find these brief anthology contributions to the In Death series to be too brief and lacking in depth, however, this...more
I'm actually reading this one as part of "Three in Death", but I thought I'd review the stories individually.
According to Goodreads, this short story chronologically belongs between books 12 and 13. I'm reading all of the shorts after having finished the 33rd book in the series, "New York to Dallas".
Eve, Roarke, Peabody, Feeney, and Dr. Mira are all off planet at police convention being held at a resort owned by Roarke. Eve is actually scheduled to speak, but murder trumps fancy speeches. The l...more
According to Goodreads, this short story chronologically belongs between books 12 and 13. I'm reading all of the shorts after having finished the 33rd book in the series, "New York to Dallas".
Eve, Roarke, Peabody, Feeney, and Dr. Mira are all off planet at police convention being held at a resort owned by Roarke. Eve is actually scheduled to speak, but murder trumps fancy speeches. The l...more
I just needed to give this a one-star rating even though I didn't get past the first few pages--exactly because I couldn't get through the first few pages.
From the twenty or so pages I read (well--listened to, equivalent to about 20 pages), it became clear that this is a thinly disguised badly written romance, not a police thriller, which I thought it was going to be based on the back cover blurb.
If you like stuff like this--in what is supposed to be the point of view of a supposedly senior-lev...more
From the twenty or so pages I read (well--listened to, equivalent to about 20 pages), it became clear that this is a thinly disguised badly written romance, not a police thriller, which I thought it was going to be based on the back cover blurb.
If you like stuff like this--in what is supposed to be the point of view of a supposedly senior-lev...more
Apr 11, 2011
Jintana
rated it
4 of 5 stars
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review of another edition
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เรื่องนี้ลดดาวลงมาเหลือ 4 เพราะมันไม่ค่อยสมเหตุสมผลเท่าไหร่ที่จะปรักปรำพระเอก/นางเอกด้วยฆาตกรรมที่แทบไม่มีความเกี่ยวพันกับพระเอก/นางเอกเลย เพียงแค่ผู้ตายมีเรื่องผิดใจกับนางเอกเพียงเล็กน้อย คงไม่ถึงขั้นที่จะเก็บเอามาเป็นเหตุให้ถึงกับต้องฆ่าอย่างโหดเหี้ยมขนาดนี้ พล็อตอื่น ๆ ก็ยังคงความเข้มข้นเหมือนเดิมให้ 4.5 แล้วกันในฐานะแฟนพันธ์แท้
J.D. Robbs (Nora Roberts) did another short novella. I finished this in less than a day. I have to admit the one description of Roarke didn't seem like it completely matched the other stories. For some reason I pictured a man with dark think wavy short hair. This book at the introduction paints him with long hair. Now the character could have grown his hair out but it just was an interesting difference I noted. This books also lacked any depth or story development. Her other novella had a bit mo...more
This book wasn't the best of the series, and it was shorter than most of the books, but all my favourite parts of the In Death books is here: Eve standing for the dead, the smokin' hot relationship between Eve and Roarke, and Eve's complete inability to interact in normal ways with average people.
In this book, Eve's at a police convention to give [only because she's under direct orders from her boss] a seminar. Naturally, the resort off planet where the convention takes place belongs to Roarke,...more
In this book, Eve's at a police convention to give [only because she's under direct orders from her boss] a seminar. Naturally, the resort off planet where the convention takes place belongs to Roarke,...more
Feb 23, 2011
Crystal
rated it
4 of 5 stars
Recommends it for:
Murder-mystery Fans
Shelves:
mystery,
thrillers-and-suspense
Another great book in the Eve Dallas series. I liked that we got to learn more about Roarke's history and it will be interesting to see whether or not Roarke and Eve's fathers were associates. My only complaint...where was McNab? His absence, especially after his and Peabody's fight was quite conspicuous.
I despise novellas on principle simply because they're too short for any reasonable plot to develop. For me reading a book is all about the plot and characters.
I don't think Robb could have done much better with only 100 pages. It is as good as it gets for a novella.
Roarke's past comes to haunt him. Or rather his father's past. More secrets are revealed. And a killer wants to blame Roarke. Out of New York and without her badge, Eve maybe out of place but she won't give up.
With every book, Robb...more
I don't think Robb could have done much better with only 100 pages. It is as good as it gets for a novella.
Roarke's past comes to haunt him. Or rather his father's past. More secrets are revealed. And a killer wants to blame Roarke. Out of New York and without her badge, Eve maybe out of place but she won't give up.
With every book, Robb...more
Gotta love Eve when she is taken out of her element and thrusted into the three things she hates most; social events, off planet travels and public speaking. The story is set at the Olympia resort for a police conference. Roarke owning the resort is being framed for the murder of two people by the son of the renown Commander Skinner of Atlanta. The commander believing Roarke should pay for his father's sins, the killing of several police officers and civilians when Roarke was only twelve. Althou...more
This was a short, interesting story. Eve finds herself NOT the head of a murder investigation, and having to work with someone else (or around them). It was fun to watch her tread the Roarke line so carelessly. Cheif Angelo was interesting, and Skinner was a complex "bad guy" that you couldn't help but pity. The mystery of who-dun-it was pretty good too. I wasn't looking at the right guy at all, but I was close...which really makes me enjoy a mystery. I would recommend this for lunch or beach re...more
J.D. Robb has written 35 books and 12 short stories about Eve and Roarke. She has brought them in that time from two very damaged and solitary people to the wonderful people they are today. And yet with every story she writes we find out more and more about who they were then,and admire who they are now.
They both show compassion and understanding to a hero who' s fatal flaw was seeing them as extensions of their fathers.
I'm looking forward to at least 70 more books about my favorite couple in...more
Synopsis: In early spring of 2059, Lieutenant Eve Dallas is called off planet to face a grueling ordeal - giving a seminar at the largest police conference of the year, to be held in a swanky resort. A resort which just happens to be owned by her husband, Roarke, of course.
Even though Eve can't quite see it that way, it's supposed to be at least partly a vacation. But work intrudes in the form of a bloody homicide, and Eve is off and running. The case is complicated by Eve's personal history wit...more
Even though Eve can't quite see it that way, it's supposed to be at least partly a vacation. But work intrudes in the form of a bloody homicide, and Eve is off and running. The case is complicated by Eve's personal history wit...more
This 88-page novella (similar to the earlier "Midnight in Death") was published as a thin paperback to tide diehard Eve Dallas fans over the holidays at the close of 2001. In the story, it’s the spring of 2059 when we find Eve and most of her usual NYPD cronies at a conference on “Olympus”, a resort planet owned by hubby Roarke. After a couple of chapters of social scene setting, including a bit of a run-in between Dallas and a famous retired Commander (Skinner), a murder in the resort hotel put...more
An short Eve Dallas novella finds Eve at a police conference at Rourke's resort off planet. When a retired police chief corners Eve telling her she's a disgrace to the badge because she married Rourke and asking her to turn him in, Eve naturally takes offense. His personal vendetta comes to a head when one of his bodyguards is murdered and Rourke is the prime suspect. As Eve aids the local police chief in solving the murder and the one that follows, she's convinced that the esteemed, retired pol...more
An short Eve Dallas novella finds Eve at a police conference at Rourke's resort off planet. When a retired police chief corners Eve telling her she's a disgrace to the badge because she married Rourke and asking her to turn him in, Eve naturally takes offense. His personal vendetta comes to a head when one of his bodyguards is murdered and Rourke is the prime suspect. As Eve aids the local police chief in solving the murder and the one that follows, she's convinced that the esteemed, retired pol...more
This is really just what it's title says, an interlude. It's generically set between novels. Meaning, except for the where it takes places, the character interactions could be set between any novel. There's no McNab, Mavis Charles or Nadine. Peabody doesn't mention any of the men either. And since I've already started the next one, I have to say, that based on stuff that happened in the last book and that continues in the next one, the timing that this one happens between seems off.
Anyway, this...more
Anyway, this...more
I like this series for a number of reasons and one being it is set in the future. Not too far, but far enough to have some of the things I dream about. One being regular travel into space. This story takes place on a man made satellite that is a swanky resort owned and built by Eve Dallas's husband Roarke. The story takes plenty of twists and turns to keep you wanting to keep reading. More of Eve's and Roarke's history comes to light and it makes for a great read.
- In early spring of 2059, Lieutenant Eve Dallas is called off planet to give a seminar at the largest police conference of the year to be held at Olympus, Roarke's resort
- Former Commander Douglas R. Skinner is also a key speaker & hates Roarke, asks Eve to help him bring down Roarke
- Skinner is dying froma terminal illness in a few months & his bastard son is trying to do right by him before he dies
- 1st meet Darcia Angelo, Chief of Olympus Police
- Dallas sends Peabody to do her lectur...more
- Former Commander Douglas R. Skinner is also a key speaker & hates Roarke, asks Eve to help him bring down Roarke
- Skinner is dying froma terminal illness in a few months & his bastard son is trying to do right by him before he dies
- 1st meet Darcia Angelo, Chief of Olympus Police
- Dallas sends Peabody to do her lectur...more
It's a solid story, but I thought it was a little choppy. It seemed almost as if Robb had intended this to be a full-length novel, but couldn't make the plot extend quite far enough and just edited it, not particularly gracefully, back to a novella length.
Still entertaining, though, with all the usual In Death elements and the usual cast of characters, taken off-world for a law enforcement conference at one of Roarke's resort hotel/convention properties. Murder and mayhem ensue.
Still entertaining, though, with all the usual In Death elements and the usual cast of characters, taken off-world for a law enforcement conference at one of Roarke's resort hotel/convention properties. Murder and mayhem ensue.
I liked it quite a bit, a fairly typical JD Robb book, but, as always, with new twists and surprises. Short and fast and an easy read but fun and worth it. The murders occur off planet at one of Roarke's vacation holdings and a well-known cops wants to pin the blame on Roarke. Eve is also implicated and she's not on her home turf. Solving the crime is imperative, though, to clear her husband's name and her own.
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Just another comment here about the entire series. I told my sister the other day that I was rereading the "In Death" series and she said, "Oh, how depressing." (this from someone who thinks "Dexter" is the best show ever?)
Here's my thing, NR has this great way of exploring the human condition, the worst side of the human animal and leaving us with hope. It's one of the reasons I read romantic suspense verses thrillers or mysteries. All (good) romance is about growth, change, being better togeth
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Even though the Eve Dallas character is too much of a Dirty Harriet cliche, I enjoy reading her stories. I like to check up on Peabody, Feeney and the gorgeous Roarke. There are no big surprises as the mystery unfolds, but the interaction of the characters is just great. This is a quick read that will keep you entertained.
A wonderful short-story with Eve Dallas and my favorite male character (ever) Roarke. I will suggest reading the other books in the series before this one, because if you don't, you more than likely will not understand everything, however it isn't absolutely necessary. The characters are well fleshed out, everything comes to a close at the end, nothing left hanging. While this is a short read for all of us Dallas/Roarke fans, its not cut down at all, even though its short, it still has the emoti...more
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Eleanor Marie Robertson was born on October 10, 1950 in Silver Spring, Maryland, U.S.A. She was the youngest of the five children, also the only girl, of a marriage with Irish ancestors. Her family were avid readers, so books were always important in her life. She attended a Catholic school and credits the nuns with instilling in her a sense of discipline. During her sophomore year...more
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“I think sometimes fate cuts you a break. Like it says, okay, you've had enough of that crap, so it's time you fell into something nice. See what you make out of it.”
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“You saved me, Eve." He watched her blink in absolute shock. "What you are, what I feel for you, what we are together saved me." He kept his eyes on hers as he kissed her.”
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