Publisher: G.P. Putnam's Sons
Pub. Date: September 15, 2015
Genre: Thriller
Source: Print ARC
Rating:
Blurb:
Eve Dallas tracks a couple whose passion is fueled by cold brutality in the newest crime thriller from the #1 New York Times–bestselling author of Obsession in Death and Festive in Death.
When
Lieutenant Eve Dallas examines a body in a downtown Manhattan alleyway,
the victim’s injuries are so extensive that she almost misses the clue.
Carved into the skin is the shape of a heart—and initials inside
reading E and D . . .
Ella-Loo and her
boyfriend, Darryl, had been separated while Darryl was a guest of the
state of Oklahoma, and now that his sentence has been served they don’t
ever intend to part again. Ella-Loo’s got dreams. And Darryl believes
there are better ways to achieve your dreams than working for them. So
they hit the road, and when their car breaks down in Arkansas, they make
plans to take someone else’s. Then things get messy and they wind up
killing someone—an experience that stokes a fierce, wild desire in
Ella-Loo. A desire for Darryl. And a desire to kill again.
As
they cross state lines on their way to New York to find the life they
think they deserve, they will leave a trail of evil behind them. But now
they’ve landed in the jurisdiction of Lieutenant Dallas and her team at
the New York Police and Security Department. And with her husband,
Roarke, at her side, she has every intention of hunting them down and
giving them what they truly deserve . . .
Review:
Devoted in Death was my first time ever reading J.D. Robb; in fact, it was my first time ever reading anything pertaining to Nora Roberts. I obviously didn't know good books because wow. I am hooked, and I do mean hooked! I've already gone back to the beginning and bought the first ten books in the series. And yes, I've already finished the first book. Oh and yes, I'm positively giddy that I have about forty more books to read! I love these characters and I love the books. They're mysterious, sexy, and damn good.
Devoted in Death starts off strong. We meet two people that are like a modern day Bonnie & Clyde. They are thrive on stealing and on a complete accident, they end up killing a man. Resulting in them getting a high off torturing and killing people. This is where lieutenant Eve Dallas comes into play. She is the central character of all the books. And led me tell you - she's bad ass! Eve and her team of bad asses race to catch a pair of crazy lovers on a killing spree. Along the way, we get gory, detailed descriptions on things that happened to the victims when they were tortured and killed. It made the book seem more like an action movie than a book.
What would the book be without Roarke? Damn, I seriously love him. Their romance doesn't ever take away from the actual story, but it's still sizzling right in the background. If you haven't met him yet, then please go do some research! Roarke doesn't disappoint.
Overall, I'm so glad I've been introduced to this amazing series full of kick-ass characters, and plots that keep me turning page after page. I recommend these books to romance and mystery readers, or just book worms in general. I promise you regret it! And if you do...well I'm terribly sorry about that. But once you start the series you'll know exactly what I'm talking about.
*Thank you to the publisher for providing a copy for an honest review. All thoughts and opinions are my own.
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About the Author:
aka:
Sarah Hardesty
Jill March
Nora Roberts
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 in high school, she transferred to
a local public school, where she met Ronald Aufdem-Brinke, her future
first husband.
In August 17, 1968, as soon as she had graduated
from High School, Eleanor married, against her parents' wishes. The
marriage settled in Keedysville, Maryland. Her husband worked at his
father's sheet-metal business before joining her parents in their
lighting company. While, she worked briefly as a legal secretary. "I
could type fast but couldn't spell, I was the worst legal secretary
ever," she says now. After their sons, Dan and Jason, were born she
stayed home. Calling this her "Earth Mother" years, she spent much of
her time doing crafts, including ceramics and sewing her children's
clothes. The marriage ended separating, and they obtained the divorce in
January 1985.
In February 1979, a blizzard in forced her hand to
try another creative outlet. She was snowed in with a three and six
year old with no kindergarten respite in sight and a dwindling supply of
chocolate. During the now famous blizzard, she pulled out a pencil and
notebook and began to write down one of those stories. It was there that
a career was born. Several manuscripts and rejections later, her first
book, Irish Thoroughbred, was published by Silhouette in 1981 as Nora
Roberts, a shortened form of her birth name Eleanor Marie Robertson,
because she assumed that all authors had pen names.
Eleanor wrote under the pseudonym Jill March a story for a magazine titled "Melodies of Love".
Eleanor
met her second husband, Bruce Wilder, when she hired him to build
bookshelves. They were married in July 1985. Her husband owns and
operates a bookstore in Boonsboro, Maryland called "Turn the Page
Books". Since that time, they've expanded their home, traveled the
world.
In 1992, she decided adopted other pseudonym so to publish
a futuristic-suspense novels, she first decided to use the pseudonym
D.J. MacGregor, but she discovered that this pseudonym was used by
another author. In 1995, her first "In Death" serial novel was published
under the pseudonym J.D. Robb, the initials "J.D." were taken from her
sons, Jason and Dan, while "Robb" is a shortened form of Roberts.
Eleanor
has also been known as Sara Hardesty, because when the "Born In" series
was released in U.K. it carried that name instead of Nora Roberts. She
has since changed publishers.
Eleanor has been plagiarized by
another best-selling romance writer, Janet Dailey. The practice came to
light after a reader read Nora Roberts' "Sweet Revenge" and Janet
Dailey's "Notorious" back-to-back; she noticed several similarities and
posted the comparable passages on the Internet. Calling the plagiarism
"mind rape," Eleanor sued Janet Daily. In 1997, Janet, admitted to
repeatedly plagiarizing from Nora Roberts' work, and that both "Aspen
Gold" and "Notorious" lifted heavily from Nora Roberts's work. Both of
those novels were pulled from print after Janet's admission. She
acknowledged the plagiarism and blamed it on a psychological disorder.
In a settlement, Janet paid Eleanor an undisclosed sum, which Eleanor
donated to the Literacy Volunteers of America.
A founding member
of the Romance Writers of America (R.W.A.), she was the first inductee
in the organization's Hall of Fame. She also is a member of several
writers groups and has won countless award
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