So I've only read six so far and there may be another In Death book that I'll enjoy better than this one but so far...this book was everything I look for in a romantic suspense.

The dialog is snappy and the story zips through like one of those futuristic cars. There's never too much of Roarke, is there, so delving into his past can't but make this installment a winner.

Summerset is especially unlikeable here and I hope there's a change in his attitude towards Eve after this. While I find the snoot More...

This is the only ongoing series I read that features the same couple in every installment: NYC Homicide Lt. Eve Dallas and the sexy, complex, brilliant and dangerous Irish tycoon known only as Rourke. But these 2 characters are SO worthy of this distinction!! :)

Eve and Rourke both come from ugly, abusive childhoods. Sexual/physical/emotional abuse…it’s more accurate to say they didn’t really have childhoods! But Eve and Rourke managed to find peace with one another and their story is compelling More...

Tic-Tac, Tic-Tac... O Tempo está a contar

Tudo começou com uma chamada anónima...
Gostas de enigmas? Também o nosso criminoso. A palavra-chave aqui é Vingança .
Ele dá enigmas a Eve que esta tem de resolver. Mas por mais que se esforce, Eve chega sempre atrasada. As vítimas não têm nada em comum... nada excepto serem Irlandeses e fazerem parte do passado de Roarke. Quem será a próxima vítima? Onde será assassinada? Porquê?

Quinze anos é muito tempo para planear uma vingança

E ele fez questão de plan More...

This is the 6th book in the In Death Series.

It is Late Autumn/Early winter in the year 2058. Eve Dallas is summoned with a riddle. Easily solved, she hurries to a grisly crime scene. A man has been eviscerated in his own home and left for Eve to find. It turns out the man was an old acquaintance of Roarke's during the days when he lived in Dublin.

The killer, taunting Eve with riddles sends her another. This time she is mere minutes late as she finds yet another gruesomely killed man left to die More...

Another awesome InDeath re-read! One of my favorite exchanges happens in this book. It is the one where Brian from Ireland finds out that Roarke married a bloody cop...Eve replies that she married a criminal and no one ever thinks about that! Then there is the whole "icicles forming in Hell" comment from Brian...Priceless!!! Loved seeing how Eve and Roarke worked through some of their most perilous philosophical ground to become an even more complete unit. Their total acceptance of each other, d More...

I picked these up because I vaguely enjoyed the first few, and I’m kind of desperately in need of books that don’t require much work on my part. How could I go wrong, I thought.

It took me three days to figure out that my escalating bad temper wasn’t traceable to lack of sleep or regular meals or any of the other usual culprits, but was in fact correlated with my pleasure reading. See, here’s the thing I’ve been trying to pin down for over a year now. I almost never read romance for a lot of the More...

"You can't let it be anything else. Because that's exactly what it is. Personal," he continued, walking to her. "Intimate." With fingertips only, he skimmed her cheek. "Mine."

Please someone, just shoot me!!



I don't know how Eve manages to handle her job, it's just too much! I can feel her fatigue and it makes me want to drug her to sleep. (Cause she won't otherwise)

So in this volume we got ourselves a little bit of marital disputes. Nothing grand really and a psychotic killer who thinks he can ou More...

Vengeance sucks! - especially when you are at the receiving end. Naturally, J D Robb could not leave it at that but added various sub-plots that easily weave into one another and literally 'thicken the plot'. Essentially, the past is catching up with Rourke which also involves his trusted companion of many years, Summerset. Still not enough at that, the person seeking revenge contacts Dallas, Lieutenant Eve, directly - be that because she's a cop and, of course, Rourke's wife or simply as an add More...

Originally published on my blog here in February 2001.

In this Eve Dallas novel, a certain repetitiveness is shown; the plots of books in this series are a little too similar. Once again the NYPD of the future is investigating a serial killing, and once again it seems to be the case that the killings are connected in some way to Eve's rich husband Roarke. In this case, the connection is particularly obvious, as Dallas has been singled out by the killer for taunting as each death occurs, and Roark More...

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Vengeance in Death is the sixth installment of Nora Roberts’ In Death series that’s written under the pen name J.D. Robb.

The year of 2058 is wrapping up, but not before Lieutenant Eve Dallas deals with another sociopath. As the dead bodies start piling up Eve quickly notices a connection—her husband, Roarke! He knows all the victims from back when he lived in Dublin running scams and picking pockets to survive. The people dying are the ones that helped Roarke More...

หลังจากที่หยุดอ่านชุดนี้ไปนาน (เพราะเข็ดขยาดกับเล่ม 5)


เห็นการพัฒนาของนางเอก ซึ่งยังตัดสินใจไม่ได้ว่าจะเรียกว่าพัฒนาขึ้นหรือลง
ความเป็นตำรวจแบบทื่อ ๆ ตรง ๆ มีการพัฒนา(ขึ้น หรือ ลง ดี??) อย่างเห็นได้ชัด
จากเล่มก่อน ๆ ที่แบบ นั่นก็ไม่ได้ นี่ก็ไม่ได้
มาเล่มนี้มีมาครบเชียว ปกปิด บิดเบือน แอบช่วยเหลือ แถมตอนจบจะมีโกหกอีก
(สรุปว่า มัน ดีขึ้นหรือ ลงล่ะเนี่ย 555 สรุปว่าเป็นคนมากขึ้นก็แล้วกันเนาะ)
(แต่ถ้าอ่านในฐานะประชาชนตาดำ ๆ แล้ว ชอบตำรวจอีฟคนเก่ามากกว่าอ่ะ)


ตอนนี้เป็นตอน Summerset ตกเป็นผู้ต้องสงสัย
(คืออัน More...

In this installment of the "In Death" series, Eve is investigating murders that it quickly becomes apparent are related to an incident in Roarke's long ago past in Dublin. Not only does Roarke appear to be the murderer's ultimate target, but Summerset is being framed to look like the prime suspect.

As Eve investigates, she not only has to contend with a frighteningly clever and fervent, religiously-twisted killer, she also has to battle Roarke - for information, for background, and to try to keep More...

Eigentlich wollte Eve Dallas pünktlich Feierabend machen um an einer Dinnerparty ihres Mannes teilzunehmen. Doch dann klingelt ihr Link und ein anonymer Anrufer erzählt ihr, dass der Herr ihn geschickt hätte um Rache zu nehmen. Dann gibt er ihr ein Rätsel auf, das, wenn sie es löst, sie zu einem Tatort führt. Der Anruf lässt sich nicht zurückverfolgen. Schnell haben sie und Officer Peabody es gelöst und was Eve dort vorfindet, lässt sogar ihren Magen revoltieren: In der Wohnung sieht es aus wie More...

Sekali lagi kasus letnan Eve Dallas memiliki kaitan dengan suaminya, Roarke. Hal ini tidak mengherankan, mengingat masa lalu Roarke yang berada di wilayah abu-abu.

Korban-korban berjatuhan, dan korban tersebut berkaitan dengan masa lalu Roarke, beberapa merupakan teman masa lalu Roarke. Tentu saja hal itu berat bagi Roarke, namun tidak membuat amarahnya bangkit seperti ketika Roarke menyadari bajingan itu mengincar istrinya yang dengan keras kepala menempatkan dirinya diantara pelaku dan Roarke. More...

(4.5)

In Vengeance in Death the title is perfect. Roarke's past comes roaring back with a vengeance as a killer starts by dismembering and disemboweling a man in a hotel room and calling Eve to solve a puzzle and the murder. Soon, as the bodies begin to pile up, Eve and Roarke come to the realization that all the dead are Roarke's old friends from his murky childhood in Ireland. What becomes quickly clear, as Summerset becomes the main suspect, is that Roarke is meant to be the killer's crowning More...

It seems like Roberts got back into the groove again with her sixth In Death novel and it’s all thanks to the mystery. Well, not the mystery per say. The book works because of the killer. Instead of writing (poorly) about Wicca and Satanism, Roberts writes about a safe Catholic mad man who just “happens” to have ties to Roarke’s past.

The further I read this series, the less I respect Eve Dallas as a policeman and the more I see this story as just another offering at the great altar of Roarke. E More...

Sigh. Less than ten pages from the end. These things are nothing if not predictable. (view spoiler)[Because Eve was YET AGAIN in mortal peril. Just once, just ONCE I'd like them to figure it out just before the knick of time. And also, the way this one went, the only way the mortal peril thing was going to work for me was if Somerset saved her, not Roarke. That is not how things went down. SHOCKINGLY.

It wasn't bad, just rather predictable.

Things I enjoyed:
-Peabody. Favourite of favourites. (I love when she dr (hide spoiler)] More...

Decent read as all In Death installments have been so far. As a Christian, I do get a little weary of the crazy, homicidal Christian gimmick (that's not a spoiler, BTW), but this had a lot of suspense and I actually was kind of surprised by the outcome of the case.

Eve got on my nerves this time. You'd think she's the only one under stress. Barking every other word and running roughshod over everyone. The fights she had with Roarke were pretty believable, but she just wore me down. I would have l More...

I have to say, while I've loved all of the In Death books up to this point, this is the first one I've thought was basically perfect. For one thing, I have so many Roarke feels right now. He was already my favorite character, and getting to delve so much into his past and his psyche was wonderful. Many, many thanks to the author for that! I also loved the case itself...and for the first time in this series, I hd no clue who the bad guys were until the very moment Eve did. I didn't even have an i More...

This book didn't quite do it for me, although the angle of the killer being a crazy Catholic should have held some interest (this book was about crazy Catholicism, the last book was about crazy Paganism ... what religion will go crazy next?) While I still find myself drawn to Eve, her antagonistic relationship with the butler, Somerset, and his with her, just struck me as childish (and honestly, Roarke should be a man and tell his butler that if he doesn't treat the woman he married with respect More...

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Each book in this series keeps getting better and better!

We kept getting little insights into Roarke’s past, and it was so great to finally see into his back story. Too bad it was his poor friends getting killed off!

People from Roarke’s past keep getting murdered, and all the evidence points to Summerset. The evidence is so strong that even Eve isn’t sure if Summerset is guilty or not. During the investigation, we find out the details of Summerset’s daughter death. T More...

Quanto à história, a primeira coisa que me agradou foi ver que se passava num mundo futurista (se a memória não me falha, no ano de 2058). Foi por falta de atenção minha, que isso é referido em sinopses de outros livros da série, mas gostei de descobrir assim, dá outro toque às histórias.

Não sendo o primeiro da série não é possível conhecer muito do background da relação Eve/Roarke, mas gostei bastante do relacionamento dos dois personagens. Têm bastante "química" (coisa que nem sempre acontece More...

Seriously is there an "In Death" novel that doesn't end with Eve Dallas battered and bleeding?
I'm slowly working my way through J.D. Robb's "In Death" series and i've been hooked since i first picked up "Naked In Death". I think this was my favorite book in the series so far, but that might soon change as i am only on #6. The main reason i liked it so much was because i love the relationship between Summerset and Dallas. I have come to enjoy their quip and lovingly hostile exchanges in the prev More...

This is the first book in a couple of books of this series that's had a real impact on my opinions of both of the main characters, husband and wife, Eve Dallas and Roarke.....just Roarke. He's a billionaire, he doesn't need to have surname if he doesn't want to! And even Summerset, the butler and Roarke's old friend from the back streets of Dublin, doesn't escape with all his secrets intact.

We already knew a little bit about Roarke and Summerset's history and the terrible loss that they both sha More...

I LOVE, LOVE, LOVE this series! I honestly am not fan of Nora Roberts other writing styles but these books are great murder mysteries.
Set in a future that isn’t so unbelievable that you can’t relate, LT Eve Dallas, her husband Roarke, DT Peabody & the rest of the gang are amazing characters. You truly believe that they exist somewhere in another version of Earth & I personally can’t wait to see what they are going to get themselves into next.
I never tire of this series as Roberts conti More...

I haven't read this series in order (read #1 & #2 and then skipped around) and this book seems to fall somewhere midway through the series. Despite that I'm not too terribly confused. Eve Dallas is a police officer somewhere in the future where things aren't all that different from today. She is beautiful but very haunted, still somewhat emotionally stunted and married to a hunky rich guy named Rourke. In this story she is investigating a case where a family man has been horribly dismembered More...

I really enjoyed this book. In fact, I had a hard time putting it down. Eve is called to investigate two murders that connect to her husband, Roarke. When it looks like more deaths will follow she gets help not only from Roarke, but from other officers who work with her, stretching the limits of the law to do so. I just finished another Nora Roberts book, and what a difference in writing. This was engrossing, the characters were so real and enjoyable, and the story was well-plotted and pulled me More...

Bellissimo.
Ero preoccupata che andando avanti non ci fosse più niente da dire sui protagonisti, invece con molto piacere mi sono dovuta ricredere: la vengeance del titolo è direttamente legata al passato di Roarke e Summerset, a un episodio in particolare di cui nei libri precedenti non ci è stato detto tutto come pensavamo. Toccherà a Roarke decidere se sconvolgere sua moglie raccontandole dettagli che potrebbero essere decisivi per scoprire l'assassino (mettendola nella scomoda posizione di sa More...