Vigilantism is the seeming motivation for the "Purity" killers in Purity in Death. They've developed a virus that can be passed on from computer to human via email, making their victims increasingly sick and miserable until they take their own lives. Of course, it also makes them violent if they're interrupted while they're sick, which is why the collateral damage from their attacks are so high (intentional kills: 4, innocent victims killed: 3, innocents injured: 3 total/two serious). The collateral damage is especially meaningful to the readers since it involves two characters we know and love -- Officer Troy Truehart, who is injured by (and forced to kill) the first Purity victim, and Detective Ian McNabb, who spends much of the book wondering if he'll ever walk again.

This would have been a better book if the villains hadn't been so mustache-twirlingly evil. Would have been a better philosophical argument, too, in that case, but overall it's still a great book.

I just adore this bloody series. 15 books cover this story & cast of characters over a period of less than 2 years & not at any point does it feel repetitive. The characters are built & shaped so naturally & slowly. The cases are each unique & interesting. You get pulled in to every one of them. You laugh, you cry & you love alongside these characters.

J. D. Robb never fails me. How Nora Roberts (J. D. Robb) writes so many books and always manages to have full plot lines & well rounded characters will never cease to amaze me.

There's no author quite like her. Her voice just resonates with me each & every time. I am never disappointed. I'm so glad that I decided to put aside my misconceptions about this author being just 'another trashy romance writer' & picked up that first book!!

Mavis pregnant. True heart assigned to Baxter. Peabody submitted for Detective exam to study.

4 1/2
Well this was a really good one, no TSTL moments or crazy captures but a real investigation into a virus effecting the brain transmitted through computers. These people are targeting pedophiles and sex offenders that got off and the system failed the families. Roarke has a different opinion than Eve as so many other of her colleagues. She has to look at her very black and while views and others gray ones. The bodies keep piling and injuries hit close to home.

I am still enjoying the characters and the support system she has. Peabody and McNabb are pretty much solidifying their relationship in the last books. Nadine plays a big role in this one and giving information to Eve before she hears it on air. As always we have the characters that irritate and push Eve in her job, or try. This was just pretty good altogether. I needed a really good one after a couple of duds. I usually can rely on Dallas but this one really hit it.

"Pain is nature's warning system."

Another good book in a fantastic series. A computer virus is taking people out, but you can't consider the infected ones innocent.

An old character comes back in this one - a happy surprise! The mystery left me guessing, and there were several touching moments. Eve is becoming more in touch with her emotions and creating a bigger family around her.

This is the fifteenth installment of Nora Roberts' "....In Death " series and it is still entertaining, if for no other reason to catch up on the characters to see where they've progressed from since the lat book. I liked this book particularly because it seems to be more purely police procedural. There are still the futuristic elements and the romance elements that are a mainstay of all the books, but this one somehow seems to be a little less formulaic than the others.

For one, we don't ever get an idea who might the murderer(s) be until well into the second half of the book. Where many of the previous books, especially the last two, seemed to be as much about the personality of the criminals perpetrating the crime as they are about Eve, this one seems more about the crime itself and the police work involved.

Also, Roberts added a nice little layer about the gray areas of police work. Previously, Eve's victims had all been pretty much blameless, if not spotless people. In this book the victims, by and large, are people who prey on young kids. Who cares if these people get offed? Society would be so much better without them. But those of us who know Eve know that she simply doesn't think that way. She stands for the dead, regardless of who they were. For those of us who are "Homicide: Life on the Street" fans, the discussions about this very subject bring back fond memories of Frank and Tim's discussions of this very subject. And the character of Eve Dallas is very close in ideal to the character of Frank Pembleton,imo.

And finally, I think I love the idea of Eve's team working from Eve's palatial home as much as they do. Circumstances force them to work on this latest crime around the clock at her house and we see our favorite regulars, Peabody, McNabb and Feeney as well as some other familiar faces, consuming her great food and using Roarke's state of the art computer facilities.

Once again, Nora Roberts scores. This is a welcome installment in a series that should be getting tired but just seems to be getting better.