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PURITY IN DEATH
by J. D. Robb
Berkley, September 2002
355 pages
$7.99
ISBN: 042518630X


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Lt. Eve Dallas is called to an horrifically bloody crime scene. A man has gone berserk, battered a neighbor to death with a baseball bat and then gone after the man's lover. Trueheart, the first cop on the scene, hadn't waited for backup, and shot at the perpetrator with his stun gun (projectile weapons are banned) set on low. The man dies.

Dallas and Peabody, try to reconstruct what happened. They find that the dead man had been a dealer of drugs to young children who the justice system had not been able to convict. He shouldn't have died from the low stun charge, but he had. What caused his death. There is a message on his computer "Absolute Purity Achieved"

Eve has his computer equipment sent back to headquarters so the electronic division can try and figure out what set him off. The cop working on the computer also goes berserk,starts screaming of a severe headache, bleeds from the eyes and nose, and holds the head of the division hostage in his office, The policeman dies.

Another child molester who skated on a serious charge, dies in the same horrible way. What is causing the deaths of these people? Dallas knows that she must search for the murderer even though she may sympathize with them. More people die, until finally Dallas and Roarke, her sexy billionaire husband, work their way through to find the virus and the murderers.

We see a softer side of Dallas in this, the 15th installment of the IN DEATH series. She works to avenge the dead but she is beginning to realize that she cannot always work alone. If you are a fan of this series, then PURITY IN DEATH is not to be missed. However, if you haven't read any of the books before, this is a series best read in order, as J.D. Robb (Nora Roberts) develops the characters throughout the books. There's a new one every w6 months, so read quickly.

Reviewed by Barbara Franchi, March 2003

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