Eve Dallas is the lieutenant of the homicide division in New York City in the year 2060. She has been working side by side with her partner, Delia Peabody, for years now so when Peabody comes to her shaken after an incident in the police locker room, Eve believes her without question. Peabody overheard an argument between what were obviously two policemen on the take. Not only were they talking about the murder of one of their informants but they alluded to an involved scheme to skim money and drugs from the cases in their department and it appears to have been going on for a long time.
Eve goes through channels to investigate the allegations, using Finney her original mentor, her husband Roarke, Commander Whitney and Peabody's boyfriend, McNab. She struggles with the dishonesty of the police involved but when its time to take down the head of the illegals department who has been skating on her father's reputation and dishonoring all those wearing the uniform, Eve has no sympathy for the offenders.
I grabbed this book on CD for a weekend drive and loved the reader, Susan Erickson. She made each of the characters sound exactly the way I imagined they would sound!
Every "in death" book is different. Sometime you know who has done the crime, sometimes you are trying to figure it out along with Eve. They are all well-written, thought provoking, entertaining stories. I especially love all of the returning characters--you know all the players from the very beginning. Each book is a stand-alone novel if you haven't read any of the others and you shouldn't let the fact that it is set in the future keep you from reading them. Loved it!
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