I have been a long time reader of J. D. Robb, so I was excited to receive this ARC. Poor Erin. She was just trying to get married and go to Hawaii with her wife. And I know Dallas would have flashbacks having been attacked in that same room. I absolutely love scenes when Dallas visits Mavis and Mavis’s daughter basically attacks Eve.

Are you ready for the latest J.D. Robb book? If so, pick up passions and death. Just as I expected, this was a great book. A five star listen!

Passions in Death is the 59th book in the in Death series by J.D. Robb aka Nora Roberts. Ms. Robb puts out two in Death books each year and I impatiently await each book and this was no different. I'm that fan - the buy the book, e-book, and audiobook of my favorites and this one will go on the shelf, both literally and digitally along with the other 58.

I was lucky enough to get an ARC of the audiobook version and neither Ms. Robb nor the narrator Susan Ericksen let me down.

This book begins with Erin, a bride-to-be, at her bachelorette party at the Down and Dirty club, owned by our favorite bar owner, Crack. She was going to surprise her fiancee' with a dream honeymoon and went to change to reveal the surprise when she was murdered in a private room. Enter Eve Dallas and her husband, Roarke. This murder has the added horror of being in the exact location where Eve was almost taken down herself at her own bachelorette party.

Along with the regular cast of secondary characters - Summerset, Peabody and McNabb, Nadine, Capt. Feeney, Dr. Mira and the rest of the gang, Dallas and Peabody, with help from Roarke and the others use don't stop until they have their murderer.

You'd think by now that the semi-formulaic way these books are written that they would get old, but they never do. I love the familiarity of the characters and the genuine affection that Robb writes for her main characters, Dallas and Roarke.

Susan Erickson is Eve Dallas to me at this point and she gets the characters down every single time. I'm able to forget that it's one person voicing everyone and fall into every story.

I can't wait for the next book when it comes out in February when Dallas and company get their murderer, they always do!

Thank you to NetGalley and the publisher for this ARC audiobook in consideration of an honest review. All opinions are my own.