Salvation In Death: 27 (In Death, #27)

by J D Robb

He raised the chalice, they prayed and they sang. He was dead the moment he drank the blood.

A crowd gathers for a funeral at a downtown New York church. As Father Flores smiles down on his congregation and drinks from the chalice of Christ's blood, he falls down dead. But who would murder a priest?

Lieutenant Eve Dallas is convinced there is more to Flores than meets the eye. When an autopsy reveals old combat wounds, and someone begins to destroy every last remaining links to Flores' old life, Eve knows she is facing an act of revenge which knows no boundaries . . .

'Curious corpses, tangled twists and one sizzling sleuth. Salvation in Death is a triple-whammy winner' Kathy Reichs

Book Twenty-Seven in the New York Times number one bestselling series

• ISBN10: 0748111441
• ISBN13: 9780748111442
• Publish Date: 2 April 2009 (first published 1 November 2008)
• Publish Status: Active
• Publish Country: GB
• Publisher: Little, Brown Book Group
• Imprint: Piatkus Books
• Edition: Digital original
• Format: eBook (EPUB)
• Pages: 368
• Language: English

Reviews

[Berls]

Loved as always. Seeing as I finished this month's ago, not a lot of specific comments. I do remember liking the way Eve struggled with the criminal being her victim element.

[mitabird]

3.5 stars

[wyvernfriend]

Not a bad instalment in the ongoing saga of Eve Dallas and Rourke. This one though seemed to somehow drift a little.

The story starts with the murder of a priest while he's conducting mass, the sacramental wine is poisoned. When Eve starts digging into his past she comes across some anomolies, including surgery. Some of her digging is somewhat stymied by the church and the investigation is complicated by another murder, again of a religious figure.

The twists and turns kept me wondering, while I did guess some of it I also found a lot of what was going on interesting.

[EBookObsessed]

Not one of her better stories in the series, but it was an intriging story.