Innocent in death
Eve Dallas must investigate the mystifying murder of a pleasant history teacher at the same time as she is worried about the reappearance of an old girlfriend of her husband's.
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- ISBN: 9780399154010
- ISBN: 0399154019
- ISBN: 9780425217542
- Physical Description 385 pages
- Publisher New York : Penguin Group, [2007]
- Copyright ©2007
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Publishers Weekly Review
Innocent in Death
Publishers Weekly
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Once again Lt. Eve Dallas shows why she's "New York City's top murder cop" in Roberts's 24th thriller under her Robb pseudonym set half a century into the future (after 2006's Born in Death). Dallas tries to close a case at the exclusive Sarah Child Academy, where two bright 10-year-old girls discover the body of Craig Foster, a popular history teacher who proves to have been poisoned by ricin-laced cocoa. Dallas wonders if another staff member or a parent might be involved, but after the prime suspect, a promiscuous teacher who's been harassing another employee, turns up dead, the investigation takes a shocking turn. Besides a provocative puzzler, Robb provides an intense relationship update on Dallas and Roarke, her Irish power broker hubby, whose dark past-in the form of a crooked ex-girlfriend-returns to cause trouble. This prolific author, a recent Quills romance winner, is still at the top of her game. (Feb.) (c) Copyright PWxyz, LLC. All rights reserved
Kirkus Review
Innocent in Death
Kirkus Reviews
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Future cop Eve Dallas (Born in Death, Nov. 2006, etc.) returns to investigate the murder of a popular history teacher and deal with an unexpected threat to her marriage. Two students discover the vomit-covered corpse of 26-year-old Craig Foster in his classroom at one of New York's toniest private schools. He's been done in by hot chocolate laced with ricin, a choice of poison that betrays a cold, calculating killer who intended the victim to suffer. But why? Craig was admired by students and faculty alike, madly in love with his beautiful wife and apparently free of enemies. Eve theorizes that he might have been silenced for knowing too much about the after-school shenanigans of faculty Lothario Reed Williams, who dallied with teachers and parents alike. Then Reed is drowned in the school pool, leaving several possible culprits, but still no motives or patterns that satisfy Lieutenant Dallas. When Eve's gut leads her to the least likely of perps, she faces an uphill battle to convince her colleagues before the killer strikes again. Her cop instincts are also triggered by the arrival of Magdelana Percell, a knockout blonde from hubby Roarke's larcenous past. Eve can tell from a split-second glance he gives "Maggie" that she once meant something to him, a discovery that prompts jealous brooding and uncharacteristic insecurity in the tough-talking heroine. Indeed, Magdelana is an unreformed con artist keen to pick up where she left off with Roarke, who can't see at first that he's being played. That leaves Eve to not only solve the case, but to make it home in time for a Valentine's Day dinner to sort out differences with her soulmate. Roarke and Eve remain an appealing pair, and Eve's flashes of vulnerability contrast nicely with her no-nonsense approach to work. Occasionally, though, Robb's New-York-in-2060 gimmick draws undue attention to itself. Copyright ©Kirkus Reviews, used with permission.
Library Journal Review
Innocent in Death
Library Journal
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In Robb's latest futuristic ven-ture, Eve Dallas must figure out who murdered an affable young private-school teacher. (c) Copyright 2010. Library Journals LLC, a wholly owned subsidiary of Media Source, Inc. No redistribution permitted.