Desperation in Death: An Eve Dallas thriller (In Death 55)

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As always with these books, I enjoyed the time I spent with the characters more than I did about the case.

This story starts when Mina Cabot and Dorian Gregg, abducted teenagers, attempt to escape the Pleasure Academy where they have been imprisoned for months and trained for a life of service and exploitation. In any event, this wasn't the kind of case where Eve or Roarke had the luxury of taking time to fight, snipe for days or do the whole silent treatment then make-up monkey sex thing; people were actively having their lives destroyed and depending (whether they realized it or not) on Eve and the team to put the people responsible to justice.What isn’t quite working for me after so many books is that Eve is beginning to just sound like the boss bitch and she’s exhausting.

However, I do think that Robb did a good job of bringing Eve’s past and her experiences into it as well. The investigation was stressful, both for me as a reader and for Eve because of its close connection to her own horrid past. Eve, Roarke, Peabody, and the rest of the team put their laser focus on finding these child abductors and murderers only to learn that the operation is so much larger than they could ever have imagined.Although Desperation in Death is set in the future, there are not as many features shown on display for the reader to geek out over in this novel.