Conspiracy In Death by J D Robb

Conspiracy In Death (In Death, #8)

by J D Robb

With the precision of a surgeon, a serial killer preys on the most vulnerable of souls on the world's city streets. The first victim: a homeless person, found dead in New York City. No bruises, no signs of a struggle. Just a laser-perfect, fist-sized hole where his heart had once been.

Detective Eve Dallas is assigned to investigate. But as she is lured into a cat-and-mouse game with the killer, Dallas also becomes the focus of an internal investigation. In her mind, Eve feels she has done nothing except irritate some fellow cops with connections in high places. But her struggle to bring a murderer to justice is about to be hindered by the fight to save her career.

Reviewed by Angie on

4 of 5 stars

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Conspiracy in Death was super great! This time Eve is faced with a homeless man whose heart has been taken. But it doesn't look like a cult sacrifice. Everything is too neat and perfect, but there's also no way that his worn out organ would be worth anything on the black market. Eve isn't willing to just let it go though, and finds other cases where organs had been carefully removed from less than healthy patients. Clearly, she's got a very skilled doctor on her hands, but why?

Other than this medical mystery, Conspiracy in Death also contains Eve's worst nightmare: losing her badge. It's obvious given the circumstances and what we know about Eve that she's being set up. Eve knows it and her department knows it, but they have to follow procedure. Eve knows all about following procedure when your head and heart are telling you something else. All of this was very interesting to me and let us see yet another side to our headstrong cop.

Conspiracy in Death was another awesome installment in this series. The mystery was engaging and I didn't solve it this time. Too many factors! I loved seeing Eve fight for her badge, and also felt awful for what she had to go through in order to get it back. There's just a lot of great stuff going on in here, and it's certainly going to affect how Eve handles herself in future books.

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