Divided in Death

In Death, Book 18

By: J. D. Robb

Narrated by: Susan Ericksen

Length: 12 hrs and 44 mins

Publisher's summary

Reva Ewing, a former member of the Secret Service and a security specialist for Roarke Enterprises, is a prime suspect in a double homicide. She had every reason to want to kill her husband, the renowned artist Blair Bissel. Not only was he having an affair, he was having it with her best friend.

But Lieutenant Eve Dallas, who's on the case, believes Reva is innocent. Eve's instincts tell her that the murder scene looks too perfectly staged, the apparent answers too obvious. And when she digs for more, she discovers that at nearly the exact time a kitchen knife was jammed into the victim's ribs, the passcode to his art studio was changed - and all of the data on his computer deliberately corrupted.

To Roarke, it's the computer attack that poses the real threat. Signs show that this is the nightmare his company has secretly been preparing for. He and Reva have been under a code-red government contract to develop a program that would shield against a new breed of hackers, the Doomsday Group. These techno-terrorists with brilliant minds and plenty of financial backing hack into systems, steal data, and corrupt computer units on a large scale - and kill anyone who gets too close.

Eve and Roarke must infiltrate an extraordinarily secretive government agency to expose the corruption at its core, before the virus spreads from one office to a corporation to the entire country.

Crack another case with Eve Dallas.

©2004 J. D. Robb (P)2004 Brilliance Audio

Magnificent

I love JD Robbs Death series !!! omg just cannot get enough I'm on to the next one and Susan does an amazing job. Rourke is such a humble guy not to many men like him that's for sure!!

J. D. Robb Series

This "in Death" series is really enjoyable, a fun read with the strong female detective, Lt. Eve Dallas. All the stories are interesting and the continuing saga just fun!

Love her “In Death” books. She keeps you hooked.

Love Eve and Roarke. Love how Roarke helps Eve solve murders. Can't wait to see what they do in the next one.

Since I've listened to multiple books back to back

I noticed that the video for the characters in this book aren't the same as in all the previous books. I'm trying to not let it distract me but overall I still really enjoyed the book.

Eve and Rourke relationship arc takes a big step

🎧Another thrilling, fun and action packed In Death series book; brilliantly narrated by Susan Ericksen.🎧

✨✨✨In Divided in Death , we as well as, Eve and Rourke learn more about Eve's SOB father while investigating a shadow and shady government arm of justice. Imagine a mix of Homeland security, FBI , MI5 , KGB and Mossad all together under one single umbrella.✨✨✨

If you haven't read Big Jack, get it first

Although the In Death numbering scheme makes it look as if this book is the sequel to Imitation in Death, it's not. Between the two, Roberts wrote a half Roberts/half Robb novel called Remember When, a two part book set half in present day and half in 2050s NYC. Only the second half is about Dallas, and it's available standalone under the title Big Jack. It's a very nice story, so go back and get it if you missed it.

Now, about this book...

I'm listening to the series in order, and Divided is my favorite since Witness. There is real tension between Eve and Roarke as he is torn between his desire to protect her "bad Roarke" style and his respect for the law through her.

There is, as a negative review noted, a higher percentage of dialog to action than in some other books, but if you're into series fiction it's really all about the characters. This book has some great Roarke and Dallas character development, funny and touching scenes with the still pregnant Mavis, and some interesting glimpses into the workings of the mysterious Roarke Enterprises.

Program your auto chef for coffee and danish, put on your favorite Freestone album, and enjoy.

Good but not great

I did not get as involved in this book as I usually do with In Death books. There is a complicated murder plot that involves spies, Homeland Security, etc. Roark's administrative assistant's daughter, Reva, is the suspected killer. Roark does not believe Reva is guilty of killing her husband and his lover. He thinks she was framed and he wants to help prove her innocence. There is another plot line regarding Eve's father. Roark finds out that many years ago a US government spy organization had surveillance on Eve's father and knew that Eve was being abused and raped by her father, yet decided not to intervene because it would upset their spy mission. Roark is furious and wants to get revenge on the men who left an 8 year old little girl at the mercy of rape and abuse. Eve does not want Roark to do anything to get revenge because she does not want him to get in trouble, or even worse, risk his soul and integrity. This creates quite a problem in their relationship.

Peabody is now a detective and she an McNabb are very much in love. Peabody is my favorite character in the entire In Death series. Speaking of Peabody, the narrator was off on her voice in this book. In fact, the narrator did not seem to be the same Susan Erickson that usually narrates. I can't quite put my finger on it, but it just did not seem like the normal narrator in most of the book. There were sections when it seemed normal, but much of the book was not. The narration was not bad, just off a little, in my opinion.

Great storyline, but voices were off

The storyline itself was quite captivating, but some of the character's voices were "off." Commander Whitney's usual gruff voice was subdued, and Peabody was missing a bit of her twang.

My favorite so far!

Love this series. The characters are so well drawn. This one kept me guessingg and I personally liked the anti government take! One minor note to the author: You over use "nearly" and "merely" as adverbs! I bet you can come up with better!

Sorry, language arts teacher speaking!

Still listening to this assume book

I was looking at reviews about Divided & I want to say to Miss Picnic;
I enjoyed your review!
You could easily become a professional review artist!