This is the fourth book in the Lieutenant Dallas cop mystery series featuring Roarke, her new husband. This series takes place in the year 2058 in New York City. Roarke and Dallas are spending the last week of their honeymoon on a satellite planet in space where Roarke is building a resort. An autotech is found by his roommate to be swinging from the rafters, dead of an apparent suicide. His roommate insists that he wasn't depressed or suicidal. Since Dallas is there, she does a preliminary investigation and plans on handing the death over to the Innerspace police. But something is nagging her about the death; perhaps the way the autotech had a huge smile on his face.
With the three weeks of their honeymoon up, it's time to go back to work. Dallas has a full plate waiting for her at cop central. She has cleared it with the Commander, allowing her to have Peabody as her permanent assistant. A successful defense attorney has been found by his husband in the bath with slit wrists. The husband insists that it doesn't make sense. The lawyer would never kill himself. Dallas gets suspicious about the husband and a female co-worker who finds reasons to be around him and throws herself at him, but neither of them really pans out. There are no drugs in his system, and nothing makes sense, but the attorney has a creepy smile on his face.
Dallas's friend, Mavis, has hooked up with a musicologist who is making her music better and taping a demo for her to play for the record companies. This musicologist, Jess, has secrets and his own game plan. Is Jess the one behind this rash of suicides that now counts a senator and a newspaper gossip rag editor? This is a book where I knew (remembered?) who had done it and got frustrated by Dallas's bullheadedness. Overall, it's a great book and a really interesting mystery. How hard would you have to try to override the body's natural sense to survive, and what would motivate you to do something like this? Robb's mystery is a real mindbender and has Dallas flummoxed as to why these obvious suicides seemed like homicides, with no evidence to back up her cop's hunch. I recommend this book to mystery lovers everywhere.
Quotes
Women are so much more courageous and more vicious than men, all in all. Don’t you agree?
J D Robb (Rapture in Death p 281)
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