Name: Seduction in Death
ISBN: 9780749957292

Nora Roberts

J. D. Robb

She was twenty-three and already in love. She was certain he'd be handsome. She would be dead before midnight. Bryna Bankhead carefully dressed for her date with the wonderful Dante, a man she's only ever spoken to online. By the end of the night, rose petals are scattered, poetry has been quoted - and Bryna has been murdered. What starts as a mistake, becomes a terrifying game, as two young men pursue their poisonous obsession with an illegal drug and an insatiable desire. As more girls are taken, homicide lieutenant Eve Dallas and her roguish husband Roarke must think fast and act even faster. And then Eve discovers the secret to their destructive past and a deadly trap is set . . .

Seduction in Death

As Lieutenant Eve Dallas tracks a seductive and ruthless killer through the streets of twenty-first-century New York, she must also face brutal memories from her childhood.

Elizabeth Clement

I really liked this one. She didn't quite stick to the usual formula, which really made it enjoyable. Also not really of the annoying requisite Eve/Roarke arguments.

From #1 New York Times bestselling author J. D. Robb comes a tantalizing novel in the futuristic In Death series, as Detective Eve Dallas searches for a Casanova killer with a deadly appetite for seduction... Dante had been courting his victim in cyberspace for weeks before meeting her in person. A few sips of wine and a few hours later, she was dead. The murder weapon: a rare, usually undetectable date-rape drug with a street value of a quarter million dollars. Detective Eve Dallas is playing and replaying the clues in her mind. The candlelight, the music, the rose petals strewn across the bed—a seduction meant for his benefit, not hers. He hadn’t intended to kill her. But now that he had, he is left with only two choices: to either hole up in fear and guilt. Or start hunting again…

Shay

So if I were basing the book's rating on the criminal investigation alone, since these books are technically crime investigation series, the book would've only been a 3-star for me. The investigation wasn't terrible, but it wasn't my favorite case for Eve. But when you add in all of the background stuff with Eve and the whole thing with Peabody and McNab, then the book becomes 4-stars for me. I loved the background story so much more than the investigation. In the background stories, we saw McNab and Peabody picking up right where Betrayal left off, so they are still furious and can't even be in the same room without fighting. Technically these two fall under the whole troupe where they just aren't communicating, and if they would, then the drama would've been avoided. I usually hate things like that because I get so annoyed with the drama relying on just not talking. But in this case, I didn't mind it. I wanted the drama and really loved seeing these two go through this. The book needed the drama between these two. It does get wrapped up in this book, so it's not getting dragged out for a long time, and I think between this one and Betrayal in Death (the previous full-length book), their story flowed really well. Then everything with Eve in this book just kept me on the edge of my seat! I think this is the one that she starts remembering more and more of her past again, and I feel so bad for her! I love that she has Roarke, and he is just amazing! These two together really complement one another in every book.
My biggest complaint with this book isn't really the book's fault. I am reading the series in order of when they came out. So that means I had to read Interlude in Death right after Betrayal. Although it was a really good novella, I feel like it messes up the story between Betrayal and Seduction because, unlike other books in the series, these two books happen to be like one big book versus doing a time jump between the two books. So we pick up with Roarke being in Ireland dealing with the funeral of his friend from Betrayal, Peabody and McNab are fighting just like how we left them in Betrayal, and Eve is working herself to the bone on a case. I really like how these two just flow right into the next, and I loved this story. However, if you add Interlude between these two books, it throws everything off because we go to the Olympus Resort in this book, and we are taken out of the story that was left open in Betrayal since nothing that happened in that book was even mentioned in Interlude. Most of the time, the books do a time jump between where we left off and where the new book starts. So even though we are doing a time skip and working on a new case, the new book still references things that happened in previous books. So we should've either read Interlude before Betrayal in Death or after Seduction, not between the two books since these two are so linked together. 

Lieutenant Eve Dallas is searching for a Casanova killer with a deadly appetite for seduction. Dante had been courting his victim in cyberspace for weeks before meeting her in person. A few sips of wine and a few hours later, she was dead. The murder weapon: a rare, usually undetectable date-rape drug with a street value of a quarter million dollars. Detective Eve Dallas is playing and replaying the clues in her mind. The candlelight, the music, the rose petals strewn across the bed - a seduction meant for his benefit, not hers. He hadn't intended to kill her. But now that he had, he is left with only two choices: to either hole up in fear and guilt. Or start hunting again

Seduction in Death

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