Long live Dallas and co.

Review just for me - man kidnaps women trying to recreate his own mother.

Very enjoyable go around this time. I didn't see the bad guy coming. I am tiring a bit on the house subplot so hopefully that wraps soon.

Abandoned in Death by JD Robb
I give this book 4.25 stars

3 young women have gone missing. But no one links their disappearances until the first is found lying peacefully on a bench in a children's playground.Her hands are folded over a childish sign on which is written in black crayon - BAD MOMMY.

Lt Eve Dallas and her team are brought in to investigate Lauren's murder and uncover the links to the other two women. Can they find out enough about the missing women and unmask their captor before they kill again....?

Although this is book 54 it’s the first one lve read.l love Nora Roberts and had no idea she was JD Robb.
I took to Eve straight away she’s a strong female lead.,tough,smart and compassionate This book covers more of the Police procedural side of the story which l find intriguing, and l really enjoyed how the main characters personal lives were mixed into the case.l found it well written with a solid plot, it completely held my attention and I had no idea who the killer was.
Was it good enough to make me want to start from book 1 and read them all…… the answer is YES!
With thanks to Netgalley,JD Robb and Little, Brown Book Group UK, Piatkus for my chance to read and review this book

Always fun!

Fricken fabulous. Best one. Hit on all cylinders. Plot, crime, killer. Plus the lives of the usuals: McNab and Peabody. Dallas and Roarke. Mavis and family. All the cops. Jamie and Quilla -hope there is more there. This is why my cat is named McNab and my dog, Mavis.

One woman dead. Two missing. Time is a factor if either of them will be found alive. Detective Eve Dallas is facing a very difficult case. As always, her attention is more than riveted to solving this latest murder. The fact that the woman's body was found at a playground near her dear friends Mavis and Leonardo's neighborhood presses Eve even more. There is one clue that is rather curious - a note that says "Bad Mommy."

What could that pertain to? Well, between Eve and her team, as well as resident Dr. Mira, Eve begins to unravel events that took place decades previously. Actually. as the book opens there is a very sad case of a mother who was prepared to give up on life and this including taking her young son with her. What happened in that case, to the woman, to the child, and what does that have to do with the current case?

I have read thousands of books in my lifetime and for the life of me I could not come close to finding a similar plot line. A plot that took some time to unfold for Eve. Her skills of deduction, along with occasional help from her billionaire hunk husband Roarke, proved invaluable when it came to desperately try to find the other two missing women.

This 54th book in J. D. Robb's amazing series was a one-sitting read from start to finish. Impossible to put down, especially when the feeling of working alongside Eve as she connected the past with the present events. The sense of urgency never once let up.

I have read each and every book in this series - including the novellas - and I must say that Robb never ceases to surprise me. To engage me. To keep my attention from beginning to end. It is with eager anticipation that I look forward to reading Desperation in Death, set for release in September, 2022.

Many thanks to St. Martin's Press and to NetGalley for this ARC for review. This is my honest opinion.