Delusion in Death - In Death #35 (J.D. Robb / Nora Roberts)

Delusion in Death - In Death #35

J.D. Robb / Nora Roberts

Blurb: 'What would cause someone to want so many people, surely many of them strangers, to slaughter each other?'

The scene that greets Lieutenant Eve Dallas and her team one terrible evening in New York is more shocking than any of them have ever witnessed. A usually comfortable downtown bar is strewn with bodies - office workers who have been sliced, bludgeoned or hacked to death with the nearest weapon available. It appears they all turned on each other in a desperate blinding rage.

As Ever and her husband Roarke - who owned the bar among his many properties - investigate the big-business workers of the city, they link the attacks back to the Urban Wars and the chemical warfare used all those years ago. With another slaughter imminent, Eve must turn to unexpected sources in order to stop a killer who is getting revenge by creating mass carnage...

ISBN: 9780749955120 (Paperback)

Year: 2012

Publisher: Piatkus

Pages: 388 (Fiction)

Links

1. Goodreads page

2. Buy from Amazon

3. Author's official site

4. Review of the book

5. Another review

The Va Dinci Cod (A.R.R.R. Roberts / Don Brine / Adam Roberts)

The Va Dinci Cod

A.R.R.R. Roberts / Don Brine / Adam Roberts

Blurb: Five utterly baffling mysteries that will change what you believe about the world. And fish. And the wisdom of ever reading another book:

-An eminent, renowned museum curator lies dead in his own gallery, with a three-foot cod stuffed down his throat...

-A brilliant young man, a renowned anagrammatologist, good-looking, gsoh, own flat, good job, non-smoker, very high standards of personal hygiene, single, he's not gay, and he's not antisocial, he meets lots of women really, just nobody seems quite right...

-A beautiful, renowned young French police cryptologist who studied for her cryptology degree at Royal Holloway - a university without a department in cryptology...

-A book full of rehashed conspiracy theory cods (Oh! My! God!) wallop becomes a global bestseller.

-Another book that should be called The Eda Vinci Cod gets called The Va Dinci Cod instead. An anagram is it? Err no.

The true reasons for the success of Don Brine's books are a secret that not even the Knights Templar, the CIA or the Church of the Resplendent Latter Day Apostles Who came Down from Space to Smite the Liberals (Alabama) are privy to.

Less-than-interestingly if you transcribe Don Brine into the Cyrillic alphabet and read it in a mirror and then transcribe it back out of the Cyrillic it reads as a transliteration of the Hebrew for Adam Roberts. If you squint a bit. 

Adam Roberts, get this, actually does teach at Royal Holloway. But not cryptology. Perhaps not even English.

ISBN: 0575077190 (Hardback)

Year: 2005

Publisher: Gollancz

Pages: 180 (Fiction)

Links

1. Wikipedia page

2. Goodreads page

3. Review of the book

4. Buy form Amazon

5. Buy from Dymocks

Rapture in Death & Ceremony in Death - Omnibus (Nora Roberts / J.D. Robb)

Rapture in Death & Ceremony in Death - Omnibus

Nora Roberts / J.D. Robb

Blurb: Rapture in Death

Three apparent suicides: a brilliant engineer, an infamous lawyer and a controversial politician. Three strangers with nothing in common - and no obvious reason for killing themselves. But police lieutenant Eve Dallas is immediately suspicious of the deaths. And her instincts pay off when autopsies reveal small burn marks on the brains of the victims. Is this a genetic abnormality or a high-tech method of murder? Eve's investigation turns to the provocative world of virtual reality games - where the same techniques used to create joy and desire can also prompt the mind to become the weapon of its own destruction.

Ceremony in Death

Conducting a top-secret investigation into the death of a fellow police officer has Lieutenant Eve Dallas treading on dangerous ground. She must put professional ethics before personal loyalties. But when a dead body is placed outside her home, Eve takes the warning personally. With her husband Roarke watching her every move, Eve is drawn into the most dangerous case of her career. Every step she takes makes her question her own beliefs of right and wrong - and brings her closer to a confrontation with humanity's most seductive form of evil...

ISBN: 9780749953966 (Paperback)

Year: 1996/1997

Publisher: Piatkus

Pages: 610 (Fiction)

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1. Goodreads page

2. Author's official site

3. Author's other official site

4. Wikipedia page for the author

5. Fan page