From Publishers Weekly
Though not as gripping as the previous installments in Robb's mid–21st-century In Death series (Remember When, etc.), this new offering showcases her many talents. New York policewoman Eve Dallas is on the trail of a serial killer who strangles his young female victims with a red ribbon and removes their eyes postmortem. Dallas and her longtime partner, Detective Peabody, pursue the criminal with wisecracking vigor and old-fashioned police work, assisted as well by Eve's handsome husband, billionaire businessman Roarke, and a beautiful psychic who volunteers to share her chilling visions of the murders. Naturally, the determined Dallas gets her man, though her toughness is shaken along the way by memories of her own childhood abuse, the murderer's vicious attack on Peabody and a surprising 11th-hour revelation. The Thomas Harrisesque mystery resolves rather simply, and the story gets less of an energy boost than usual from the romantic power play between Eve and Roarke and the edgy sci-fi detail that made the earlier books so distinctive. (In fact, the Manhattan of 2059 is oddly old-fashioned, with more homey crafts stores than the New York of 2004.) Nevertheless, the book is a sassy, smart-alecky read, possessing the warm characterizations and witty dialogue that have earned Robb/Roberts her huge and loyal readership. Copyright © Reed Business Information, a division of Reed Elsevier Inc. All rights reserved.

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Whether she's writing her trademark women's fiction or the futuristic police procedural mysteries she creates under her recently revealed pseudoymn of J. D. Robb, the quality of Nora Roberts's writing is crystal clear.

It's never easy for New York City police detective Eve Dallas to shift gears between her career as aa hard-hitting homicide cop and the role she's recently assumed as a corporate wife and society hostess for her wealthy, powerful and handsome-as-sin husband, Roarke. In Visions in Death, Eve's tricky balancing act gets tougher than ever.

Eve had been hoping that the change of seasons would cool things off after the long, hot, unusually violent summer of 2059. But the chilling tableau she finds in Central Park at the scene of a sex-related homicide is definitely not the sort of "cool" Eve had in mind. In addition to brutally assaulting the victim and carefully arranging the death scene, the killer has cold-bloodedly removed the dead woman's eyes￯﾿ﾽand every cop instinct Eve possesses tells her she hasn't seen the last of this murderer.

She's got a great arsenal of investigative tools at her disposal -- from Roarke's off-the-record high-tech gadgets to top-notch forensic techniques, perceptive psychological profiling, media manipulation, and her own and her partner Peabody's meticulous police work. And though Eve's not much of a believer in visions, she even agrees to accept help from a psychic who claims to have somehow connected with the victims of this serial murderer. Faced with a killer who is as horrifying as the nightmares that haunt her own life, Eve will stop at nothing to see justice done. Sue Stone

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"The summer of 2059 has been long, hot - and bloody. On one of the city's warmest nights, a call from dispatch sends New York police lieutenant Eve Dallas to Central Park - and into a hellish new investigation. The victim was found on the rocks, just above the still, dark water of the lake. She wore nothing but a red ribbon tied around her neck. Her hands were posed as if in prayer. But it is the eyes - removed with such precision, as if by the careful hand of a surgeon - that have Dallas most alarmed." As more bodies turn up, each with the same defining scars, Eve is frantic for answers. Against her instincts, she accepts help from a psychic, who offers one vision after another - each with shockingly accurate details of the murders. And when Eve's partner and friend Peabody is badly injured after escaping an attack, the stakes are raised. Are the eyes a symbol? A twisted religious ritual? A souvenir? With the help of her husband, Roarke, Dallas must uncover the killer's motivation before another vision becomes another nightmare.

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Publishers Weekly

Though not as gripping as the previous installments in Robb's mid-21st-century In Death series (Remember When, etc.), this new offering showcases her many talents. New York policewoman Eve Dallas is on the trail of a serial killer who strangles his young female victims with a red ribbon and removes their eyes postmortem. Dallas and her longtime partner, Detective Peabody, pursue the criminal with wisecracking vigor and old-fashioned police work, assisted as well by Eve's handsome husband, billionaire businessman Roarke, and a beautiful psychic who volunteers to share her chilling visions of the murders. Naturally, the determined Dallas gets her man, though her toughness is shaken along the way by memories of her own childhood abuse, the murderer's vicious attack on Peabody and a surprising 11th-hour revelation. The Thomas Harrisesque mystery resolves rather simply, and the story gets less of an energy boost than usual from the romantic power play between Eve and Roarke and the edgy sci-fi detail that made the earlier books so distinctive. (In fact, the Manhattan of 2059 is oddly old-fashioned, with more homey crafts stores than the New York of 2004.) Nevertheless, the book is a sassy, smart-alecky read, possessing the warm characterizations and witty dialogue that have earned Robb/Roberts her huge and loyal readership. Agent, Amy Berkower at Writer's House. (Aug.) Copyright 2004 Reed Business Information.

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