Salvation In Death by J D Robb

Salvation In Death (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

Reviewed by wyvernfriend on

4 of 5 stars

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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.

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