WHAT a THRILLER! It's been a few years since I picked up a JD Robb - still does not disappoint.
Eve is called to the scene of a club - a famous rock band performing for their old neighborhood. A young, talented girl injected with a massive amount of drugs. No reason. No sense crime.
The next night - it happens again. No connection. Random.
I love Roarke and Eve, Peabody and McNab and all the other characters. They are like old friends.

Another amazing book in the Eve Dallas series!

I feel like it's hard to write a concise review without giving anything away since we are on BOOK 58 of this wildly dark, twisty, and emotional scifi/romantic suspense series! So all I'll say is that each book continues to grow on the book before and while the plots are always based around twisty crimes around NYC, what keeps you reading book after book is the characters and the amazing found family they've developed over the course of the series. I love this series to bits - it's basically a comfort read at this point!

Tons of TW so please be aware before going into this book (and series) in general!

The mystery in this is so good (I love the science angle) but the near-future setting and unintuitive language changes pulled me out of the narrative. If the setting were contemporary instead, this would be a 4 star read!

Premise - a girl is stabbed with a dirty needle at a concert and dies minutes later. When Dallas investigates, she can’t see any reason why this particular victim would be targeted. Soon, other young women begin to fall and it becomes clear that it’s a serial killer targeting teenage girls at random (within a set type). Dallas races against the clock to solve the crime before more girls die.

The premise is intriguing, the writing compelling, and the pacing makes this impossible to put down. Great! But it’s set in the mid 21st century and while that changes the language people use (link instead of cell phone, illegals instead of drugs, etc.) it doesn’t change the tech itself or the world much either… the things that changed and how didn’t seem to make sense. Ex: robot housekeepers are commonplace, but not self-driving cars? Parents don’t chip their kids (or some other tech way of keeping track of minors)? Overpriced personal shoppers are a thing, instead of just AI populating your wardrobe via online shopping?

Also a real bummer that, with how much language has changed, incels are the exact same as ever. Sigh…

Thanks, NetGalley and St Martin’s Press, for the gifted ARC in exchange for an honest review.