Miki's Reviews > Devoted in Death

I am so disappointed in this book. Different crime, but same basic plot, same characters, same dialog. Before you start reading you know that:

Eve will solve the case with utterly amazing leaps of intuition, and demonstrate ever-rising levels of crudity and intolerance of everyone who is not a cop;

Between delivering speeches of utter amazement at how utterly amazing Eve is, Roarke will give a fashion commentary every time she gets dressed (seriously?), and will lose his temper at least once;

She-Body and McGrab will take advantage of every chance they get to grope each other - get a room, for Pete's sake!;

Baxter will refer to Trueheart as "my boy" about fifty times. Please. Who does that?

In general, the editing/research of Robb's (and Roberts') books is terrible. For example, in a previous book, Cornwall was relocated to the north of England. In another, the story of Rape of the Sabines is said to to be found in the Bible. Various words are often used incorrectly-sometimes several different times on the same page! For example "wailed", "whaled" and "waled" have all been used to indicated a terrible beating. In this one, a signature tactic used by Ted Bundy to lure a victim was attributed to Jeffrey Daumer. With all her success, I would think that Ms Robb could afford a decent proofreader/researcher.