Sunday, April 5, 2020

Off the Bookshelf: GOLDEN IN DEATH, by J.D. Robb

In Death Series

Dallas and Roarke are back. Combining their widely divergent backgrounds and viewpoints and talents to track down murderers and bring justice for their victims.

Never has a cold-hearted, arrogant, self-righteous, entitlement-attitude slimebag needed to be caught and punished, and have his face shoved in his mistakes like the villain in this latest installment. His assumption that he's too smart to be caught, and his cold-hearted treatment of anyone who is no longer useful in his schemes, or who might become  weak spots and liabilities, just makes it all the more satisfying when he finally falls.

A vendetta going back years provides the motivation for a series of cold-hearted, calculated deliveries of golden eggs filled with a toxic substance that kills its victims quickly and painfully. The worst part in all this is that the dead aren't the people the killer has set out to punish for denying him what he wanted and what he thought he was entitled to have. He kills to punish the people who love them, to make them suffer.

Dallas is on the case with her loyal team of friends and allies, and puts everything on the line to beat the clock and find the murderer before the next victim receives a mysterious package containing death. The byplay among characters and the continuing growth of the many relationships always satisfy. Worth waiting for, every time.

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