April Taylor's Reviews > Kindred in Death

I love the Dallas crime stories of J D Robb. Set in 2060, the protagonist is ace 'bitch-cop' Lieutenant Eve Dallas, soft as butter in the middle, but with a harder than average carapace. Married to the billionaire, Roarke, the stories centre around their love for each other and the fact that they both had abused childhoods. The great strength of the Dallas novels is the 'family' of characters. That, and the inevitable envy of Roarke's house with holo suites, swimming pools, luxury of every kind and the ascerbic major-domo, Summerset who has a love/hate relationship with Eve. The plots are all great and this one, in particular is incredibly tense and page-turning. If I have one little whinge, it is that the books are not very well proof-read, or perhaps that's just that most of mine are ebooks. Still worth reading. I am on my third read of Kindred in as many months. There is something almost frighteningly addictive about the 'in Death' series. Try a couple and see what I mean. The first of the series is called 'Naked in Death'.