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Promises in Death (In Death #28)
by
J.D. Robb
Amarylis Coltraine may have recently transferred to the New York City police force from Atlanta, but she's been a cop long enough to know how to defend herself against an assailant. When she's taken down just steps away from her apartment, killed with her own weapon, for Eve the victim isn't just 'one of us.'
Dallas's friend Chief Medical Examiner Morris and Col...more
Dallas's friend Chief Medical Examiner Morris and Col...more
Mass Market Paperback, 338 pages
Published
July 28th 2009
by Berkley
(first published January 1st 2009)
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I don't know how J.D. Robb/Nora Roberts does it, but she consistently writes novels with just the right mix of emotion, sexual tension, wry humor, and mystery to keep me riveted every darn time! "Promises in Death" had me flipping the pages as fast as I could read to try and figure out 'who done it' and feed my Roarke fix.
This time the death is personal...not because the vic is a cop, but because she's the cop that Li Morris (coroner extraordinaire) was seriously involve...more
This time the death is personal...not because the vic is a cop, but because she's the cop that Li Morris (coroner extraordinaire) was seriously involve...more
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I thought this book was great and loved the character development of Eve, Morris and the relationship between Eve and Roarke. This book was fast paced from the beginning and although it slows down some in the investigation, I still couldn't put this book down because of the characters. Can't wait for the next installment of the In Death series.
The Eve/Rourke relationship continues to grow and made this book a pleasure. Eve is really developing her humanity. She's learning what it means to have and to be a friend and it's neat watching that happen. The mystery is a good one, personal but not so personal that it gets in the way.
PROMISES IN DEATH (Pol/Proc-Eve Dallas-NYC-Future/2060) – VG+
Robb, J.D (aka Nora Roberts. – 29th in series
Putnam, 2009, US Hardcover – ISBN: 9780399155482
First Sentence: She was dead the minute she answered the ‘link.
Lt. Eve Dallas takes on a new case that is particularly painful. Amaryllis Coltraine was a fellow cop and the love of Eve’s friend and colleague, Chief Medical Examiner Li Morris. The case has even more personal overtones when Eve discovers Co...more
Robb, J.D (aka Nora Roberts. – 29th in series
Putnam, 2009, US Hardcover – ISBN: 9780399155482
First Sentence: She was dead the minute she answered the ‘link.
Lt. Eve Dallas takes on a new case that is particularly painful. Amaryllis Coltraine was a fellow cop and the love of Eve’s friend and colleague, Chief Medical Examiner Li Morris. The case has even more personal overtones when Eve discovers Co...more
She gets a phone call and leaves the house almost instantly afterward with her two guns on her person. Her weapons do not help her as she is ambushed on the stairwell by someone she recognizes. She is brought to the basement where she is revived before she is killed. The year is 2060 and NYPD Police Lieutenant Eve Dallas catches the case in Promises in Death.
Eve arrives at the crime scene and examines the body before turning it over. To her horror, she recognizes the victim as veteran ...more
Eve arrives at the crime scene and examines the body before turning it over. To her horror, she recognizes the victim as veteran ...more
So so. This is the 28th or 29th…I’ve lost track…“In Death” book. I really love this series but I’m beginning to wish it will end soon because at the rate of 2 new books a year I am loosing space on my bookshelf very quickly! But I love Roarke and I’ve come to like Eve (lol) and I really enjoy the world J.R. Robb has created in futuristic New York City. So I kept buying and reading. This one I didn’t love. I enjoyed seeing Roarke and Eve mature as a couple and really settle into their marriage. F...more
"I can help. We're the smart girls. Let's solve some crime!"
This is not a book that can be appreciated if randomly picked off a shelf. The joy in reading it comes from knowing the series' characters, knowing the tropes, and watching them intersect, interact, and sometimes implode. This is a payoff book, not a setup book.
The tensest scene is not Eve facing off against the prime suspect, but instead, an emotionally and physically intense deception pulled off by th...more
This is not a book that can be appreciated if randomly picked off a shelf. The joy in reading it comes from knowing the series' characters, knowing the tropes, and watching them intersect, interact, and sometimes implode. This is a payoff book, not a setup book.
The tensest scene is not Eve facing off against the prime suspect, but instead, an emotionally and physically intense deception pulled off by th...more
I loved everything about this addition to the in Death series, including the coral cover which just screams...It's summer...read me! Whereas I was quite disappointed in the previous release, Salvation in Death, this one satisfied on all fronts. Eve seems much more comfortable being a wife, yet much still baffles her about life and relationships. The connection between Eve and Roarke was much more focused on with Eve experiencing a series of revelations or conclusions about herself and their rela...more
I have read many of the L. Eve Dallas in death series. This one was by far the worst. What irritated me the most was the unnecessary foul language the character Eve uses. Very unbecoming of a lady and would make a sailor blush. For example, she refers to lingerie several times as f***wear.
However, L. Eve Dallas is anything but a lady. J.D. Robb seems to think that to make a tough cop, you must remove all femininity from the character. It is just ridiculous that the only affection she...more
However, L. Eve Dallas is anything but a lady. J.D. Robb seems to think that to make a tough cop, you must remove all femininity from the character. It is just ridiculous that the only affection she...more
Dallas is a character I like...... iln portrayal a bit like Bones, I guess....the sort of clueless to human relationships but intense investigators etc. Sometimes, the portrayal of Dallas seems over the top....a bit less so this time.
Amarylis Coltraine may have recently transferred to the New York City police force from Atlanta, but she’s been a cop long enough to know how to defend herself against an assailant. When she’s taken down just steps away from her apartment, killed wi...more
Amarylis Coltraine may have recently transferred to the New York City police force from Atlanta, but she’s been a cop long enough to know how to defend herself against an assailant. When she’s taken down just steps away from her apartment, killed wi...more
Age - 18+ (language, violence and sex)
Life has changed a lot by 2061 according to J. D. Robb. Planets and moons have been colonized and technology has advanced by leaps and bounds. Two things haven't changed though - crime continues to run rampant through New York City and cops still lay their lives on the line to keep that crime in check.
Lieutenant Eve Dallas is the quintessential cop; she lives and breathes the job. So when fellow officer, Detective Amaryllis Coltraine,...more
Life has changed a lot by 2061 according to J. D. Robb. Planets and moons have been colonized and technology has advanced by leaps and bounds. Two things haven't changed though - crime continues to run rampant through New York City and cops still lay their lives on the line to keep that crime in check.
Lieutenant Eve Dallas is the quintessential cop; she lives and breathes the job. So when fellow officer, Detective Amaryllis Coltraine,...more
The Eve Dallas books are one of my guilty pleasures. The latest book in the very long series basically is more of the same, and it satisfies. The new girlfriend of Chief ME Morris is dead, and she has a connection to a criminal that Eve and Roarke's fathers worked for, and who they put away in an earlier book. As well, as the last book (or the one before that), Eve's friend Dr Louise is marrying former LC Charles (in other words, a licensed prostitute), so there's the added hiccup of Eve hosting...more
I can’t remember now who first got me reading J. D. Robb’s series about Eve Dallas and Roarke (although I suspect the blame can be laid at the feet of “Barbara the bookseller” who has sold me a lot of books in the series since then). It doesn’t really matter. I’m hooked. I love Eve and Roarke and their ever developing relationship and I enjoy the futuristic setting and the murder mysteries to be solved. So when I heard there was a new one coming out I slapped a reserve on it at the library (I bu...more
Maybe it's that I recently read the hard-hitting, gritty sci-fi noir novel, "Altered Carbon" or maybe it's that I'm coming into this series having not read the first 27 books, but I have to admit I didn't much care for "Promises in Death."
Again, part of that may be a lack of understanding on who the main protagonists are and not having much emotional investment in their on-going storylines. To be honest, I found their whole storyline a bit trite and cliched in th...more
Again, part of that may be a lack of understanding on who the main protagonists are and not having much emotional investment in their on-going storylines. To be honest, I found their whole storyline a bit trite and cliched in th...more
Urber bad guy max Riker has caused trouble again
His son fell in love with a cop
she wanted him to move away from daddy
he wouldn't
she left
moved to New york
She fell in love with Morris - Medical examinier
then suddenly she is dead
(view spoiler)...more
His son fell in love with a cop
she wanted him to move away from daddy
he wouldn't
she left
moved to New york
She fell in love with Morris - Medical examinier
then suddenly she is dead
(view spoiler)...more
Cerita di mulai dengan kasus pembunuhan salah satu detektif polisi, yg mana ternyata detektif tersebut adalah pacar Morris. Karena hal tersebut membuat semua polisi geram. Eve yang mengusut kasus ini menyelidiki dengan seksama dengan bantuan teman-teman sesama polisi dan suaminya, Roarke, yg selalu dengan senang hati membantu istrinya...hehehe
Penyelidikan di mulai dengan menanyai pasukan tempat Ammy bekerja, detektif kepolisian yg menangani kasus perampokan, perkelahian dll. Pertama ...more
Penyelidikan di mulai dengan menanyai pasukan tempat Ammy bekerja, detektif kepolisian yg menangani kasus perampokan, perkelahian dll. Pertama ...more
I have been reading this series for a while now, starting this summer. I guess I am getting tired of reading one book after another, because I seem to be enjoying them less and less. They seem to be less intriguing with each one I read. It seems like about half way through the book, you already know who did it and the last several chapters are her just putting the pieces together for the arrest to stand up in court.
There wasn't much danger in this book, no sitting on the edge of...more
There wasn't much danger in this book, no sitting on the edge of...more
Good murder mystery; I liked the complexity of motives and of the path Eve has to take to figure out whodunit. Something in the Eve/Roarke relationship struck a false note this time, though. What's up with Roarke being so touchy about Eve interrupting his work? And it was written like this was a long-established pattern: Eve said before doing it that she'd have to pay for it and indeed Roarke was cold and angry when he responded to her knock. I'm not used to Roarke taking work so seriously; I'v...more
This was definitely the best of In Death's that I've read in the last some-odd years. I was starting to get a little bored with the lack of character evolution and the same formulaic plots. But this one definitively went up a notch. I love Eve and Roark. Their strange and amazing relationship, the work they do, the friends in their inner-circle and the ever-expanding futuristic New York is why I have continued to read this series. My one complaint is that I get frustrated with Robb's writin...more
Lieutenant Eve Dallas is beautifully badass! Her relationship with her husband Roarke is so sexy strong and J.D. Robb (aka Nora Roberts) is at her best when creating snappy dialogue between each memorable character of this story. Robb is particularly good at cop banter.
The basic plot is the murder of a police officer, who also happened to date the Chief Medical Examiner (one of Dallas' close friends). The case then proceeds to involve crooked cops and the criminal Ricker family, o...more
The basic plot is the murder of a police officer, who also happened to date the Chief Medical Examiner (one of Dallas' close friends). The case then proceeds to involve crooked cops and the criminal Ricker family, o...more
Promises in Death, Kindred in Death, Ritual in Death, and Missing in Death by J.D. Robb - Two full-length novels and two novellas (I never read the other stories in those short story compilation books) and I only have the most recent book in the series and I'll be caught up at last. I really liked Kindred. It would probably make my top five in the series. I've definitely enjoyed the series. The characters are great, the sex is great , the humor is great. But I'm also glad I didn't invest i...more
Amarylis, the police detective that Morris, NYC's chief ME, is dating is killed. The crime scene is clean. Amarylis was taken down in the stairway of her own apartment building. Since she had both her weapon and a backup, Dallas is certain that she knew the killer. Dallas suspects the killer was a cop from Amarylis' own section. Meanwhile, the investigation brings out the fact that Amarylis had a long term relationship with Alex Ricker, the son of Max Ricker who was a crimelord that Dallas took ...more
This was another good book by JD Robb.
Dallas is trying to solve the murder of another cop who was also dating their ME. It seems to lead towards people from Eve's and Rourke's past.
As per usual dallas is also trying to fatho how friendship works and what is expected of her as a friend
sometimes you have to ask yourself that apart from the sex what do the pair of them get out of their relationship. They never see each other, dallas does not now how to relate or ...more
Dallas is trying to solve the murder of another cop who was also dating their ME. It seems to lead towards people from Eve's and Rourke's past.
As per usual dallas is also trying to fatho how friendship works and what is expected of her as a friend
sometimes you have to ask yourself that apart from the sex what do the pair of them get out of their relationship. They never see each other, dallas does not now how to relate or ...more
This is a particularly hard case for Eve because the victim is a police officer, one of their own. Amaryllis Coltraine transferred from Atlanta and very quickly fell into a serious relationship with a familiar character, Li Morris, Eve's favorite medical examiner. As our favorite characters, including Peabody, Roarke, Sommerset, Bella and the rest, rush to find the culprit, Roarke and Eve discover that this case is closely entwined in their overlapping past. As they try to help a grieving Morris...more
A very entertaining read. I think the thing I enjoyed so much in this book was the interaction between the characters. So much interaction. Seeing Dallas' anguish for Morris. Seeing her terrified of Mavis' baby. Louise's bridal shower was hilarious. Robb is building the humanity of Dallas' character. The plot was very nicely crafted. I didn't really have a clue to the 'bad guy' until the end. The plot complexity is pretty amazing. One other thing, I'm intrigued by the world in 2060. Every book g...more
Fans of Eve Dallas and Roarke will enjoy this installment because Eve evolves greatly.
While Eve Dallas hosts a bachelorette party at home, her husband Roarke hosts a bachelor’s party in Las Vegas. This is the first party Eve has hosted without Roarke and she’s down right scared . She’s working on a case of a murdered cop and suspects someone from the dead cop’s squad. Not having Roarke around to talk out her theories, she talks them out to her girlfriends and learns it’s nice to hav...more
While Eve Dallas hosts a bachelorette party at home, her husband Roarke hosts a bachelor’s party in Las Vegas. This is the first party Eve has hosted without Roarke and she’s down right scared . She’s working on a case of a murdered cop and suspects someone from the dead cop’s squad. Not having Roarke around to talk out her theories, she talks them out to her girlfriends and learns it’s nice to hav...more
This was one of the best of the recent In Death books. It kept my interest and I didn't skim as much as I usually do. I've read this book series from the very beginning, but I've always preferred the first dozen books to the later ones. As it switched to hardcover, it started getting more procedural (or the mystery was just not as interesting to me). I love the earlier books because of the development of the characters. This book just seemed to hark back to what I liked about the earlier bo...more
What can I say? Another strong book in the IN DEATH series. This is book #28 and there hasn't been a bad one in the lot. Strong characters, both leads and secondaries, great plotting, realistic, gritty, and interesting mysteries, solid research, humor, a touch of romance. Just all around great reads every time. I love this series and the fact that Robb has never yet hit a wrong note. I just finished this one and am already impatient for the next one. Good thing Nora Roberts is as prolific as...more
Reminder - do not listen to these books as an audio book again. The sex scenes are cringe-worthy when read aloud. And dear god, the reader did a terrible job with all the voices except the narrator's. She made them sound brain-dead, it was awful.
The character of Eve gets most two-dimensional when Robb makes her do the "I can't cope with feminine bonding rituals!" schtick. Geez Robb, let your character grow a little. You can't have it both ways - she can't have a big ...more
The character of Eve gets most two-dimensional when Robb makes her do the "I can't cope with feminine bonding rituals!" schtick. Geez Robb, let your character grow a little. You can't have it both ways - she can't have a big ...more
Another good book in the series of Eve Dallas and Roarke. This time it is a cop that is killed and that makes it even more personal for Eve. She goes through her usual routine of narrowing down the clues and figuring out who did it with the help of Peabody, Roarke and the usual characters.
I do really like how Eve is becoming more compassionate or softening. this time it was Louise's bridal shower held at her house but thankfully she didn't have to do anything for it otherwise it w...more
I do really like how Eve is becoming more compassionate or softening. this time it was Louise's bridal shower held at her house but thankfully she didn't have to do anything for it otherwise it w...more
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Nora Roberts was born in Silver Spring Maryland, the youngest of five children. After a school career that included some time in Catholic school and the disciplines of nuns, she married young and settled in Keedysville, Maryland.
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Nora Roberts was born in Silver Spring Maryland, the youngest of five children. After a school career that included some time in Catholic school and the disciplines of nuns, she married young and settled in Keedysville, Maryland.
She worked briefly as a legal secretary. "I could type fast but couldn't spell, I was the worst legal s...more
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“Do little pink fairies sing and dance in your world, Peabody?"
"Sometimes, when it's very quiet and no one else can see.”
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"Sometimes, when it's very quiet and no one else can see.”
“There it was, Eve supposed. There was the answer to why people got tangled up with people. Because when you were down, when you were wallowing, someone you mattered to would ask if you were okay.”
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