Like the floor, drops and smears of blood marred the knotted white linens. She found all three in the spacious suite with its wide bed flanked with high posts of burnished gold. And these circumstances are so grim as to be bleak, which we see when Eve discovers the crime scene: Robb performs a complex juggling act during this scene, juxtaposing a horrible crime while adding elements of humor that break up the grim circumstances. It’s here that we see many of the futuristic elements of our setting, from Eve’s use of Seal-It to prevent contamination of the crime scene to the high tech security system to the damaged droids left behind by the murderer who raped and tortured Daphne and tortured and murdered the husband. It’s the hypocrisy she hates, as events of this book prove that she has compassion for even those who’ve committed violence.Īfter Eve and Roarke get the victim to a hospital, there comes a sequence familiar to anyone who reads police procedurals or watches them on television: the examination of the crime scene. “I heard you and was grateful, when she went onto to explain to you how the police were far too focused on punishment rather than reintegration, that you refrained from punching her.” “Maybe you didn’t hear me tell that woman with the hair like a tower of whipped cream”-Eve demonstrated by swirling a finger over her own short, choppy brown hair-“that, no, I don’t want to chair her committee for reintegrating rehabilitated offenders into society because I was too busy tossing offenders in prison.”
At the same time, it provides long-time readers another glimpse into those charity/business events that Eve grumbles about attending but usually manages to find a way to miss unless they concern her work: The scene in the limo before the victim stumbles into the street is an excellent introduction to Eve and Roarke’s relationship. Injured, terrified, and convinced she’s been attacked by the literal devil, she stumbles into the street into the path of the limousine carrying Lieutenant Eve Dallas and her billionaire husband Roarke as they head home from a charity event. The story opens from the point of view of a victim: Daphne Strazza, a young doctor’s wife. Intentional or not, if you’re curious about the In Death series, yes, you can start with this 44th book. It certainly reads that way, catching readers up to speed on the characters, their relationships, and the futuristic setting all in the first two chapters.
#Eve echoes review series#
Robb is the 44th book in the In Death series featuring Eve Dallas.Īs I read the first three chapters of Echoes in Death, I wondered if the book was written intentionally as a jumping-on point for new readers.
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