Judgment in Death

5 blazing Stars!! One of the best installments in the series (or maybe it is just me because it's been a while since I had a session with the gang.) Have I told you how amazing Eve is? In all aspects of her life? She is a woman who has a working brain in that beautiful head of hers. It is uncommon in fiction, but this heroine actually THINKS. As a cop, she doens't leave one angle unexplored, she actually has a knack for getting into any perpetrator's brain and anticipate his every move. In this book's case she was after a cop-killer, which in itself is a very emotional and demanding task. I'm proud to state that I had figured out the killer from the start, but knowing this didn't decrease my enjoyment of the story. It was really fun to pay attention to every clue the author left and how smart Eve was to grab it. Applause to both J.D. Robb and Eve. Someone would think that the author might get sloppy or hasty after so many books, but NO, this one was as solid a mystery as in any previous book in the series. As a friend, she is loyal, always standing by her friends or whomever is decent and fair towards her. But be cautious, if you ever cross her or betray her! As a wife, it is a delight to watch her toss her hard skin and become vulnerable towards her husband, to open up her heart to potential pain, in order to feel love's warming to maximum. In this story, Eve and Roarke often collide (as they usually do) but it was a pleasant surprise to see, for once, that Eve was the one to humble herself first, admit the wrongness of her behavior and reach out to Roarke. The magnitude of her love for Roarke and the amount of progress she has done in their relationship, literally stuns me.