Faithless in Death: An Eve Dallas Novel (In Death, #52)

by J D Robb

Susan Ericksen (Narrator)

• ISBN10: 1250787858
• ISBN13: 9781250787859
• Publish Date: 9 February 2021
• Publish Status: Active
• Imprint: MacMillan Audio
• Format: Audiobook (CD)
• Duration: 13 hours and 43 minutes
• Language: English

Reviews

[Berls]

It continues to blow my mind how this can be book 52 - FIFTY TWO - of the series and I can still love every minute. This one is definitely one of my favorites and really got to me, I was choked up more than a few times.

As always, the characters are what make this series. And at 52 books, I feel like I know them. I can talk to you about every one of them as if they were my best friends, because JD Robb has made them so real. A few personal advances happening in this book, for Mavis, Leonardo, Peabody, and McNab. But it wasn't the personal life stuff that made this book, it was the way the ENTIRE crew - name someone that has been important in the series, and I swear they were part of it - rallied together to take down these MFers.

I think having such a solid crew of just really fantastic, GOOD cops and detectives who stand for victims and take it so personal is part of what makes this series special - it definitely adds to me emotional response. The detective / police-procedural work of this book really shines. But I got especially emotional because:
1 - they're taking out a cult in this book. As someone who grew up in a cult - no quite as severe as this one, but with lots of familiar ideas and similar living situations - it hit really close to home; and
2- a lot of the victims are mothers with young kids who they are desperately trying to protect and save. With Dante being almost 2, that put me in their headspace so easily. And with my father still in the cult, I sometimes have anxiety/fear about him somehow getting Dante and exposing him to that world. So it just really hit me super hard, that fear for your child.

I think all that hit me even more because it was written so damn well. I really hated to put this book down in the last 50% and I'm so glad that the Finish What You Started Readathon got me to finally pick this up.

As always, I listened and have grown to love Susan Eriksen's narration. For me, she is the voice of all those characters I've come to love and I'm thrilled she's stuck around for all 52 books!

[booksandcats]

I absolutely loved this book, I think this holds up with the best in this series, which says a lot as this is the 52nd book.

It is amazing seeing the well developed characters and the relationships between them over this period of time, and it's done really really well and satisfying.

For the story, this is a very gripping one and actually the story I wish they would have done for the 50th book, as it's really special and kind of spectacular.

I highly recommend it to everyone who likes the series or just crime books in general.

[EBookObsessed]

This one goes sideways and by the time we finish, I almost forgot the original murder.

Lt. Eve Dallas and her partner, Det. Delia Peabody start out investigating the murder of an artist in her studio, which takes us down a rabbit hole of white supremacy, reprogramming and human trafficing. By the time we finish the story, we have gotten so far away from the beginning of the story, you end up doing an oh, yeah, there was that dead lady..

We start with the murder of Ariel Byrd, an artist who was bludgeoned in her studio. At first the investigations begins to lean towards Ariel being murdered by a lover, her female lover. Their investigation then leads Dallas to an woman from an important and influential family who is on the brink of her grand society wedding. Of course, she would not want her infidelity brought to light, especially since her affair is with a woman. See in order to inherit her multi-million dollar Trust, she needs to marry a man, a white man, and produce a child. It turns out that her parents are part of an organization called Natural Order. Natural Order believes that the races should stay pure and relationships should among their own race and only between men and woman. Their teachings are that homosexuality is unnatural and they have been known to help you see the light with reprogramming and a little light torture, if necessary.

The more Dallas looks into Natural Order, the crazier the organization becomes. This isn't just a bunch of white supremacists pitching their spiel to the faithful. They begin to find young women being drugged, abducted and sold to older men so they can do what women are supposed to do and make babies within their specific races. Dallas and her team will work with the FBI and Interpol to break the back of this organization and free these women from a nightmare of slavery and rape.

I am not saying this wasn't a good story but every time Dallas gets a new lead or talks with a new witness, what we are finding out about Natural Order is getting crazier and crazier. By the time that Dallas and team take down the organization, it feels like the murder of the artist must have been part of the last book that came out.

I am always a fan of Dallas, Roarke and the gang but this story was insane.

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