Desperation in Death: An Eve Dallas thriller (In Death 55)

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Number 55 proves to be one of her best yet – even when dealing with such a dark and tragic storyline.

This is one of the ones where Robb relies on a kind of dramatic irony; we know who the criminals are and understand their motives long before the body is discovered. In any event, this wasn't the kind of case where Eve or Roarke had the luxury of taking time to fight, snipe for days or do the whole silent treatment then make-up monkey sex thing; people were actively having their lives destroyed and depending (whether they realized it or not) on Eve and the team to put the people responsible to justice. We watch as Eve tracks the perps and makes the connections, all the while getting to see just how atrocious these people actually are.In the latest installment of the In Death series, a dead teenager leads Eve Dallas and her friends into the sex trafficking world. This is the fifty-fifth book in the In Death Eve Dallas series and I have read all of them up to this point. With any In Death books, I would definitely recommend checking trigger warnings prior to picking them up if you’re a more sensitive reader. With two girls having been abducted, and one escaping, Sadly, as the girls were escaping, one of them died.

My tags should show what many of the triggers are, but this novel in particular will have many triggers. You also couldn’t ask for a better cast of supporting characters – from the hard-hitting reporter, Nadine Frist, to the ebullient singer, Mavis Freestone, to the cops in Eve’s squad at Cop Central, they are all outstanding. They quickly got it worked out and were soon a united front defending the other, which was funny to watch. There was some surprising tension between Eve and Mavis towards the start, it sucked because both of them were right. Eve and her team use all their resources to find out who is behind this horrible organization and try to save the other innocent victims.Robb usually manages to embed humor in her novels, providing some much needed levity to offset some of the more serious and grim aspects of the story. But if you like a thrilling mystery and lots of twists and turns, then you don’t want to miss out on this one! The reader is introduced to a place where kidnapped children are being groomed to be sold and we meet Mina and Dorian who are planning an escape.

Robb details the abuse that the girls experience from the very beginning, so when one of them turns up dead, I feel like readers can connect more with the victim.When the clues lead to child trafficking, Eve won’t rest until everyone involved is identified and arrested. Once the girls are imprisoned within the academy, they are ‘trained’ to service the gentlemen who will eventually purchase them. But it was the parallel tracks of trying to find these human traffickers and locating Dorian that gave me heartburn. The characters are some of the most intriguing and interesting I’ve ever read and they grow personally and professionally with each new book. Our protagonist, Lieutenant Eve Dallas of the NYC police department, stands over a crime scene at the edge of Battery Park.