They died with smiles on their faces. Three apparent suicides: a brilliant engineer, an infamous lawyer, and a controversial politician. Three strangers with nothing in common - and no obvious reasons for killing themselves. Police lieutenant Eve Dallas found the deaths suspicious. And her instincts paid off when autopsies revealed small burns on the brains of the victims. Was it a genetic abnormality or a high-tech method of murder?

Eve's investigation turned to the provocative world of virtual reality games - where the same techniques used to create joy and desire could also prompt the mind to become the weapon of its own destruction.

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4.5-stars: 'Rapture in Death' by J.D. Robb

Reviewed in the United States on April 18, 2020

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Every month I look forward to reading another book from J.D. Robb’s In Death series for the #InDeathReadALong hosted by @PNRBookLoverReviews and @UTCBookBlog. This month is Rapture in Death, which is the fourth book to the series. It’s another installment that I fell in love with because it was hard to put down. It’s getting harder and harder to read only one book a month for the Read-A-Long.

The fourth book has Eve Dallas investigating three people that committed suicides. They should be closed cases, but Eve finds each suicide suspicious, especially after autopsies are done on the bodies. There’s a small burn on their brains, so Eve is determined to find out what drove a lawyer, engineer, and politician to kill themselves. There’s no stopping Eve from finding out the truth, even if she puts herself in danger again.

This installment is another perfect addition to the series. I enjoyed following Eve, Peabody, and Feeney on investigating these suicides, especially after Eve tries to save another person who committed suicide in the book in front of her. The person was acting strange, and this is why I agreed Eve was doing the right thing about investigating these deaths.

I started figuring out who could be behind everything after Eve encountered this person. There was something off with this person, especially how they reacted to Eve and Roarke being together. I love each antagonist that J.D. Robb writes in her stories because they are pure evil in their way. This one took it to the top. I was sick to my stomach towards the end of the book and what this antagonist had planned altogether.

Let’s not forget about Roarke and how much I adore his and Eve’s relationship. They’re married now, and they are supposed to be in the honeymoon phase, but Roarke knows Eve’s job is never done. It’s bad enough during their honeymoon is when one of the suicides took place. Be prepared for some steamy scenes in this book between the newly wedded couple. I love them as a couple, and I love how Roarke treats Eve and vice versa. These two were meant to be together, and I can’t wait to continue reading these books in the series.

Overall, this installment gets 4.5-stars, and I highly recommend it to Romantic Suspense/Thriller readers out there. Be prepared, though, because this is another book that will have you on the edge of your seat trying to figure out what is happening to these people committing suicide. Poor Eve and Roarke are caught in the crossfire again, but they can handle anything thrown at them.

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About the forth book in this never ending series and it holds up as well at past and future novels. Great story tell Robb, she.

Reviewed in the United States on August 23, 2017

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I’ve not read all the books in this series yet but am getting pretty close. Having read the reviews written on most of the books in this series by J.D. Robb, aka Nora Roberts, it becomes quite clear quite quickly that people either love or hate these books. And when you think about it that is the way it should be. What a boring reading life we would all have it all of our tastes were the same...ugh!

Now I am on of those that are a big fan of these books where are futuristic (just a bit) detective/police procedural books with a touch of romance thrown in from time to time. This work is not all that different from other J.S. Robb offerings.

This one deals with mind control via music/computer games. It is not as grizzly as other books in the series but murder there is never-the less. People are forced to do things such as leaping off of tall buildings or hanging themselves or – in the case of Eve and Roarke, somewhat change their sexual encounters – an not all for the good.

Even though this is only about the third or fourth book in this series we have all my favorite characters playing their usual role; Eve, Peabody, McNab, Roarke Mavis, Leonardo and yes, one of my favorites, Galahad, and a host of others readers who follow these stories will be quite familiar with. There is of course some new characters introduced cause hey; you have to have a bad guy or girls – right?

The book begins with Eve and Roarke returning form the honeymoon where on their return visit at a space station they encounter the first victim – an apparent suicide.

While this story does not move as fast as some of the others I have read in this series it is never-the-less still a stellar read and one that I more or less read non-stop from cover to cover – Being retired I can do stuff like that because the dogs in my lap could care less if I am sleeping or reading or just staring into space.

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One of my favorite In Death Books

Reviewed in the United States on July 14, 2017

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Rating R
Genre: Police Procedural
Sub Genre Futuristic
Sub Genre Romance of established married characters
Triggers: Rape
Violence Murder
Language Adult
Sexuality M/F

Plot centers around mysterious suicides where everyone of the people are overjoyed to end their own lives. This is the forth In Death book centering around Eve Dallas NYPSD Homicide Lieutenant. The book starts with both Eve and Roarke on their honeymoon. The sex and romance between the two always sizzle, and this is because the characters that Robb write have passion. Passion is the corner stone of these books not just passion of a sexual nature, but passion to find the perpetrators of the crimes. The character of Eve is like a very tight flower blossom that has never opened for anything but her job. The blossom that is Eve opened for one thing, her job, being a great cop. Then would close up tight again, she was standoffish even to the two people closest to her, her former partner Feeney and Mavis. Eve, since meeting her now husband Roarke, is learning to be a full bloom of a flower not closing up when not on the job, not being standoffish with people. The character Roarke won't accept anything less and because of this Eve blooms.

In this book Peabody, Officer Delilah, is attached full time the Dallas. Which opens Eve up further.

Mavis again in given a lot of book time and I personally adore her. I adore all the characters in this book.

Also Dr. Mira is given more book time too.

The book's plot centers around mind control and it is a very wickedly good read.

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Lolly

Rapture in Death

Reviewed in the United Kingdom on April 24, 2020

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Based on what I've read so far I find that these books are too predictable, I did lije them at the beginning and I like the characters but I guessed the last murderer almost from the first chapter. It's always someone she or one of her friends knows and her life is always in jeopardy at the end when you know that she won't get killed off.
I like Nora Roberts and have never read a bad book from her but this book annoyed. I will stick with them, though I hope the formulas not the same for them all.

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Ladycc

Dallas and Roarke a hot steamy combination

Reviewed in the United Kingdom on August 4, 2020

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I’ve read 100 Nora Roberts books and now 10 JD Robb , great author , of the two I prefer her JD Robb books the more you read the more the characters come to life intertwining the friendship and intrigue book after book always filled with good in depth murder trying to solve the who dunnit and of course the steamy sexual, sensual but loving relationship between Dallas and Roarke both from abusive childhood but now in a great marriage that is built on love and trust, definitely recommend this book and be ready to be hooked into reading more

Sarah (Feeling Fictional)

In Death book 4

Reviewed in the United Kingdom on October 3, 2017

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I left it too long after reading to write a comprehensive review of Rapture in Death but I'm really loving this series. Eve and Roarke are a great couple and I've enjoyed seeing their relationship grow stronger since the beginning of the series. I do find that the murder mysteries are usually a little easy to guess (I'd pegged the killer in this book within a couple of pages of meeting them) but unusually that doesn't stop my enjoyment of these books, especially when the murders are so creatively committed that most people mistake them for suicide.

I like the futuristic world, Eve and Roarke are both brilliant multilayered characters who have deep dark secrets that we're only starting to get to the bottom of. I love the way the darkness in their pasts helps to bond them together and it's really interesting seeing Eve adjust to life as Roarke's wife. She's actually pretty happy and secure in her relationship now which is great to see. Side characters like Peabody add plenty of humour with their snarky comments and I'm enjoying getting to know characters like Mavis, Dr Mira and Feeney.

I'm still intimidated by the number of books that are already published in this series but the more of them I read the more excited I am that I have so many left to get through.

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Mary Heron

An inventive murderer comes up with an insidious way to kill people.

Reviewed in the United Kingdom on July 30, 2018

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Leave it to Eve Dallas to see what everyone else misses, while on honeymoon on Roarkes space station a staff member commits suicide, interrupting Eve and Roarkes privacy, the scene is pretty obvious, a definite suicide so nothing for Eve to do but process t h e scene and feel sorry for a life lost too soon. Back in Earth, Eve is amazed to run across a spate of obvious suicides none of which have any connection, but Eve isn't convinced. Murder offends Eve and suicide is just as bad, why would people of differing ages, economic status, sex and career suddenly decide life had no more to offer. One way or the other Eve wants answers but is this really something sinister or are Eves instincts wrong, this one time. Whitney, the chief gives her a week to either come up with a suspect or to put it to bed and go on to the next murder. An enthralling murder mystery, very cleverly written, are there any murder victims or is it just an overly suspicious detective who can't accept people self terminating.

Erica

Mediocre effort in this otherwise good series

Reviewed in the United Kingdom on October 18, 2013

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In a series this long-going it is inevitable that some instalments won't be as good as others. This is one of those. It's not bad, I just would describe it as mediocre. This book has none of the personal turmoil of the previous books, and at first it doesn't even seem that we have a murder.
The book starts with the tail end of Eve and Roarke's honeymoon, which takes place off-planet, at a resort Roarke is building but which isn't finished yet. The only other people there are the building and tech crew, and the last day of their honeymoon is thrown into turmoil when a young member of the tech crew is found in his room, where he has hung himself. He is butt-naked and has an eerie smile on his face, as if he died happy, and as the only law-enforcer on the planet, Eve does the job of recording the scene and logging the death. Since she's the thorough kind she also begins an investigation to ensure that the kid really did self-terminate, and wasn't actually murdered. Pretty routine stuff.
But then another person commits suicide, and Eve learns of an earlier one, and the one thing they all have in common is that none of the dead people were predisposed to self-termination. As such she is convinced it has to be murder, and sets about trying to prove this.
The cop side of the book is solid enough, but not as engaging as previously. All we have to go on is Eve's hunch that the suicides are in fact murders, but even then there is no apparent motive. Previous books held personal problems for her as well: in the first two Roarke was one of the suspects, and in the third book she had to prevent her best friend Mavis from getting locked up. She also had to deal with her increasingly traumatising nightmares, as the memories of her childhood and her abusive father caught up with her, and there is little of that present either.
All in all this book was average. Average plot, average on the character side, average in the final resolution. It's not bad, but if you follow this series for the people you can safely skip this one, because you won't miss anything.

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