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In her eighteenth (or is this nineteenth?) novel featuring the acerbic lieutenant Eve Dallas, J.D. Robb (or is that Nora Roberts?) entertains us once again with murder and mayhem in New York City, a New York City of the 2050s. Things have changed from the early part of the century, and technological gadgetry has advanced beyond our wildest dreams. It is obvious Robb has had fun imagining what the future could hold for all of us.
NYPSD Lieutenant Eve Dallas is back, armed with an attitude and all sorts of cool weapons we haven’t seen yet. She continues to spurn anything feminine, actually cringing when her famous friend Mavis comes at her with assorted gels, dyes and polishes. She is still referred to by her partner, the newly dubbed “Detective” Peabody, as “Sir.” Yet she is head-over-heels, weak-in-the-knees gaga over her wealthy husband, megabusinessman Roarke.
However, her latest case involves one of Roarke’s most loyal employees. Technogeek Reva Ewing is found with blood on her hands at the scene of a double homicide involving her husband and a trusted friend, the two locked in a naked embrace, apparently killed in the very throes of passion. It certainly looks like the jealous wife did it. Unfortunately, those aren’t the only bodies that turn up in Lt. Dallas’s jurisdiction, and they all have connections to the dead husband.
As Eve digs deeper into the case, she turns up some curious clues. What began after the terrorist attacks in 2001 as the Homeland Security Organization has morphed into a scary federal department run amok. Just what is their connection to this series of murders the Lieutenant is investigating? And why are all the computers on the scenes fried? While she works hard to solve these crimes, she learns some interesting truths about the horrific abuse she suffered as a child. The brutal memories of that time threaten to derail the investigation. Her nightmares return with a vengeance.
And Roarke, fiercely in love with her and plagued by his own demons, can’t look the other way. He sets his sights on revenge, thereby pitting his interests against Eve’s. The odds seem insurmountable for husband and wife. Where once they were spooning between the sheets, they now sleep alone, assiduously avoiding contact with each other. The rift looks irreparable.
This book is filled with action and technical inventions: scanners, blockers, stunners, what have you. As long as you don’t take it all too seriously, you can have a great deal of fun reading DIVIDED IN DEATH.
--- Reviewed by Kate Ayers
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