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MEMORY IN DEATH
by J. D. Robb
Putnam, January 2006
352 pages
$24.95
ISBN: 0399153284


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There are very few people mourning the murder of Trudy Lombard. She is the kind of person that creates a negative connotation of what it is to be a foster parent. For her it was a matter of convenience as well as her meal ticket. For several years she would take care of troubled young children who needed some form of stability in their young lives. What they got instead was the stuff of nightmares.

Trudy Lombard never raised a hand to any of her foster children, but she made their lives a living hell causing some of those children to have a criminal record or worse. New York Police and Security Department Lieutenant Eve Dallas was one of the 'lucky' ones, managing to run away as a young girl and becoming one of the most respected police lieutenants in the force.

She is caught off-guard, though, when she sees Trudy waiting for her at her desk after an intense investigation. All those memories come flooding back to Eve who wonders what Trudy wants after all these years. It is highly unlikely that she has reformed after all these years.

Trudy does want something from Eve, but never gets a chance to collect. She is brutally murdered in her hotel room. Eve wants to take the case not because of who Trudy was, but because of justice. Eve became who she was, in part, because of Trudy by not becoming like her. She will do her job and get to the truth, but she is not going to be celebrating. This woman has created a lot of pain in others peoples' lives and it is time to close that chapter. After all it is Christmas time in the year 2059 and it is time for peace for Eve and for all of the other victims. A lot is about to happen.

In MEMORY IN DEATH, Nora Roberts using the pseudonym JD Robb, shows how Eve has grown in two years inside the series, growing into someone she could have never foreseen. The time-frame for each book in this long-running series usually goes anywhere from a day to a couple of weeks and yet, Nora Roberts manage to make this futuristic series seem as fresh as ever.

In this particular case, the crime is not the story but the characters themselves. It is always nice to greet them time and time again with each book and see them grow as each book goes along, and to show that their lives have improved by being there for Dallas and vice versa. As to the plot itself, it was a bit predictable, but so what? You're guaranteed a good time with every new book that comes along. Sit back and enjoy this one.

Reviewed by Angel L. Soto, June 2006

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