Hard-bitten yet vulnerable, Eve Dallas is a New York police detective some
100 years from now. Unfortunately she falls victim to a wholly traditional romantic
cliche in coming up against mysterious attractive billionaire, Roarke. Murder
suspect and detective fall passionately in love and Eve's defences are slowly
melted. I was very put off by the unoriginality of both the plot and style of
this structure, yet it is worth persevering with Naked in Death. The future
setting becomes more and more compelling as the enigmas surrounding the filmed
murder of prostitutes proliferate. Indeed the power of the book lies in the
evocation of a socially changed America in which prostitution is legal and guns
are not. Of course the thriller manages to have it both ways in the pursuit
of a gun totting sexual sadist. However, the weaving together of politics and
family tensions makes for a gripping saga. Even the slow revelation of Eve's
own tortured past achieves an emotional honesty that I would not have predicted
at the start. An intriguing new series.
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Susan Rowland
This is the first book in the Eve Dallas series, if you enjoy this the other
titles are Glory in Death, Immortal in Death, Rapture in Death, Ceremony
in Death, Vengence in Death, Holiday in Death, Conspiracy In Death, Judgement
in Death, Seduction in Death, Reunion in Death, Purity in Death and Remember
Me.