Born in Death - J.D. Robb
#23 In Death series
Suspense
Thorndike Press (November 2006)
Rated: 4/5 stars
Synopsis:
Eve
Dallas has a grisly double homicide to solve when two young lovers—both
employees of the same prestigious accounting firm—are brutally killed on
the same night. It doesn't leave Eve a lot of leftover time to put
together a baby shower for her buddy Mavis, but that's supposedly what
friends are for.
Now Mavis needs another favor. Tandy Willowby,
one of the moms-to-be in Mavis's birthing class, didn't show up for the
shower. A recent emigrant from London, Tandy has few friends in New
York, and no family—and she was really looking forward to the party. And
when Eve enters Tandy's apartment and finds a gift for Mavis's shower
wrapped and ready on the table—and a packed bag for the hospital still
on the floor next to it—tingling runs up and down her spine.
Normally,
such a case would be turned over to Missing Persons. But Mavis wants no
one else on the job but Eve—and Eve can't say no. She'll have to track
Tandy down while simultaneously unearthing the deals and double-crosses
hidden in the files of some of the city's richest and most secretive
citizens, in a race against this particularly vicious killer. Luckily,
her multimillionaire husband Roarke's expertise comes in handy with the
number crunching. But as he mines the crucial data that will break the
case wide open, Eve faces an all too real danger in the world of flesh
and blood.
My Thoughts:
Eve has to find a killer, a
missing pregnant woman and throw a baby shower for her best friend and
be a birthing coach for her friend. She does it all with sarcasm.
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