Not a bad installment to the “In Death” series. This honestly gets four stars since there was less what I call aggravations in this one. Plus, this one had a call back to a previous book, Innocent in Death. There are some loose ends in this long running series, so it was nice to get something nice and tidied away. Though I still call BS that no one out there is ever going to call Roarke out on the things he got up to when he was young. I was just glad that it didn’t turn into a stupid argument between Roarke and Eve. I didn’t give it five stars though because I really rolled my eyes at Robb not letting readers at least get to read what Roarke said to [redacted]. I get him not wanting Eve present, but Robb has often allowed readers view what is going on with the both of them even when they are keeping secrets.
Stolen in Death follows Eve as she investigates who killed wealthy millionaire Nathan Barrister. Apparently someone broke into his home and stole a precious set of jewels from his vault. What makes this more intriguing is that the set of jewels were stolen about 20 years ago. And the vault contains even more expensive jewels, paintings, etc. Eve, Roarke, Peabody, and the usual cast of In Death players take the stage as they figure out who stole the jewels and killed Nathan Barrister.
I honestly enjoyed Eve and Roarke more in this one. They just seemed very in sync throughout the book. And I loved that Eve went to Mira about her worries. I often wonder about Eve going to Mira about the potential perps on her cases since she seems to know more than Mira, but on this it made sense why she went to Mira and I thought their scenes were great together. We also get a sighting of Louise and Charles. And thankfully we don’t get to experience Peabody and McNabb’s new house. We hear about, but thankfully that was not as in your face as it was in previous books. We also get less Peabody being annoying which again, very grateful.
The overall plot was interesting. And I liked how things tied together. I didn’t see the one reveal even coming and when it comes you are suckered punch a bit. I did wonder how things were going to work out in the end there.
The ending as I said above was a bit unsatisfying. I wish we had gotten something after this since it felt like the book left a little too unsaid there in the end.
- Justice – a book about legal or moral justice; crime; systemic oppression; criminal system; a book that does justice to an idea or genre. This book focuses on Eve bringing justice to the dead man, Nathan Barrister. But also bringing justice for crimes that were committed twenty years earlier as well. And also getting a little justice against someone that has an axe to grind against her as well.
