Eve Dallas is a cop, in New York. But she’s a few years ahead of us (it’s unclear to me, but at least 30 to 40 years), and the toys the police have are lots of fun. More fun, however, was the fast pacing and the mystery of “Cassandra.”
“Cassandra” is threatening to blow up targets in New York, and Dallas must confront and, if possible, prevent the death of thousands of people. (Watch for confusion with the name; Dallas is the last name, Eve the first; they are used apparently at random.) Luckily, Dallas has an excellent team, from her assistant Peabody to a Bomb Squad any modern cop would kill for (literally!). And, in her back pocket, the perfect non-official assistant: her husband Roark. And what a man! He’s rich, intelligent, very talented in computers and disarming bombs, and stunningly good looking. (This is the only real hint that J.D. Robb is Nora Roberts, a romance novelist. I don’t know that I’ve ever met a man with even two of those characteristics!)
The pace is fast, if sometimes confusing. The leap Dallas makes to solve the case goes unexplained, however. I didn’t make the leap, so don’t know how she did! But a fun, relatively quick read. I will certainly look for others by J.D. Robb and read them!
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