Passions in Death by JD Robb
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lightreadsPassions in Death
3/5. My preferred type of these, a good old-fashioned personal murder mystery. She puts queer people in her books now, and not entirely just as victims anymore, though there’s still that here. This is a pleasant procedural, made less interesting by the thing where Eve is the bestest detective ever who solves these cases on her gut hundreds of pages before the evidence lines up, and she is never wrong. Let the woman be wrong sometimes! Being wrong is interesting and a doorway into revealing character – why is she wrong? What are her biases (she has lots, and yet they never seem to get in the way)?
3/5. My preferred type of these, a good old-fashioned personal murder mystery. She puts queer people in her books now, and not entirely just as victims anymore, though there’s still that here. This is a pleasant procedural, made less interesting by the thing where Eve is the bestest detective ever who solves these cases on her gut hundreds of pages before the evidence lines up, and she is never wrong. Let the woman be wrong sometimes! Being wrong is interesting and a doorway into revealing character – why is she wrong? What are her biases (she has lots, and yet they never seem to get in the way)?