Innocent In Death: 24 (In Death, #24)

by J D Robb

When history teacher Craig Foster is found dead in his classroom, his young wife is devastated, and his family, friends and colleagues all shocked. The two ten-year old students who discovered his body may be traumatised for life. Magdalena Percell, an old flame of Eve's billionaire husband Roarke, has turned up in New York, and she's anything but innocent. Unfortunately, Roarke seems blind to Magdalena's maniuplations, but not to her shapely figure and flirtatious ways. But Eve will have to put aside her potential heartbreak, for a while at least- because another man has just turned up dead...

• ISBN10: 0749937416
• ISBN13: 9780749937416
• Publish Date: 22 February 2007 (first published 25 January 2007)
• Publish Status: Transferred
• Out of Print: 2 June 2009
• Publish Country: GB
• Publisher: Little, Brown Book Group
• Imprint: Piatkus Books
• Format: Paperback (UK Trade)
• Pages: 320
• Language: English

Reviews

[Berls]

Another great one! I was as thrown as everyone in the story by the killer, and man did that make for a great thread! I also really enjoyed seeing Rourke and Eve struggle a bit - no relationship is perfect and I love that there's isn't. It's just got a lot of love to make it work. Mavis as a mom is just great and so excited about Nadine's show Now - had a great little piece. All the little details just make it great!

[mitabird]

4.5 stars

[ibeforem]

You’d think this series would start to get stale after 24 books, but I think this is one of the best ones yet. There’s a bit of a crisis in Eve and Roarke’s world that gives depth to both characters, and the mystery in this one is solid.

Now, about the audio production (I listened to this one). This is the first In Death series book I’ve listened to, and it took me a while to adjust to the (female) reader. It was like the only way she could differentiate between characters was to give them each an accent. Roarke was heavily Irish. The first victim’s wife is French. Peabody sounds like Clarice from The Silence of the Lambs (which really bothered me). Thick New York and New Jersey accents were everywhere. And, most distressing of all, Mavis’s friend Trina (the hairdresser) sounded like Marge’s sisters on The Simpsons. It was all a little distracting at times.