Why we’re excited
A Columbia professor is found headless and naked on a cobbled street, nineteen hours after he went missing. The cuts suggest a killer with surgical training, so Eve Dallas takes the case into the faculty rooms of Columbia and Barnard and on to Manhattan's top doctors, where big egos are part of the job.
J.D. Robb is Nora Roberts, and this is entry sixty-four in the In Death series she started in 1995. Each case stands alone, so a new reader can start here, though Eve and Roarke's history rewards going back to Naked in Death. Long-time fans will simply add it to the pile.
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What to know about Perfect in Death
Perfect in Death is Book 64 in the In Death series. Start with Book 1, Naked in Death. The book just before this one is Fury in Death.
We haven’t reviewed J.D. Robb before, so this would be our first look at their work.
From the publisher
Perfection can be deadly in the brand-new crime thriller starring homicide cop Eve Dallas from the #1 New York Times-bestselling author J. D. Robb.
Donald Quinland was a husband and father, a teacher and writer. Now, on a dark cobblestoned street where his naked, beheaded body has been discarded like trash, Lt. Eve Dallas wonders what happened during the nineteen hours since he went missing. Forensic evidence indicates that the killer had medical knowledge—could this be the result of illegal organ harvesting, or some sick experiment? Or does the atrocity of the crime suggest a personal vendetta?
After speaking with the grieving family, Eve and her partner visit Columbia and Barnard, where the late professor taught. In these Ivy League halls filled with sharp and occasionally devious minds, it isn’t so easy to get at the truth—and among Manhattan’s elite doctors and scientists, God complexes are an occupational hazard.
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We haven’t read Perfect in Death yet. When our review goes up, it will replace this page.
