"J.D. Robb continues to do a fine job balancing Eve the woman against
Eve the career homicide detective...That may be why the series works for
adventure after adventure after adventure."--New York Journal of
Books
Eve Dallas fights to separate rumors from reality when a woman who
traffics in other people's secrets is silenced, in the newest novel in
the #1 New York Times bestselling series.
Du Vin isn't the kind of bar Lieutenant Eve Dallas would usually
patronize--nor the kind where a lot of blood gets spilled. But one
February evening, a mortally wounded woman stumbles out of the chic
Manhattan nightspot's ladies' room. Larinda Mars is a self-described
"social information reporter," or in more old-fashioned terms, a
professional gossip. She also had a side business in blackmail. Setting
her sights on rich, prominent marks, she'd learn what they most wanted
to keep hidden and then bleed them dry. Now someone's done the same to
her, literally--with a knife to the brachial artery.
Eve didn't like Larinda Mars. But she likes murder even less. To find
justice for this victim, she'll have to discover what dirty secrets
Larinda Mars used to victimize others. But along the way, Eve may be
exposed to information she really didn't want to know...