Delia Binder's Reviews > Shadows in Death

Given how well Nora Roberts' done with the last ten ...IN DEATH books, this is a small step backwards. There's really no mystery -- as they know Lorcan Cobbe, a former Enforcer for Roarke's father turned Hit Man who hates Roarke's guts, is their killer pretty much right off, most of the book involves finding him before he has a chance to take a run at either Roarke, Eve, Peabody, Nadine, the Miras, or Roarke's family back in Ireland. Moreover, Cobbe has a reputation for not being careless -- but since it's Roarke, who Cobbe thinks "usurped" his right to be Patrick Roarke's true son(!), Cobbe's screws up pretty much by the numbers trying to get at him and his.


Behaving More Like Juggernaut Than Invisible Woman or Kitty Pryde

Eve and Roarke are able to use his carelessness to their advantage -- along with Cop Central Homicide (who make it clear here, if it wasn't before, that they consider Roake one of theirs), McNab and Feeney, and even Commander Whitney. (Turns out that both Feeney and Whitney worked one of Cobbe's hits two decades earlier, and they both want a piece of him.)

One of the good things about this entry is it finally makes it clear that those in the NYPSD who know Roarke are aware of the rumors of his past -- and don't care. One of the not-so-good things is the climax where All of Team Dallas except for Nadine, Summerset, Reo and Galahad


Summerset COULDN'T Leave - I Needs Feedings!

pile in one of Roarke's private planes (view spoiler)[to Ireland to pursue Cobbe, who they figure out has decided to go after Roarke's family! (hide spoiler)] Straining credulity even further is when (view spoiler)[Roarke's family refuses to leave their farms, so all Team Dallas has to blend in...to Irish (hide spoiler)] Farm Country!

Commander Whitney - Completely Convincing as a Farmer!

This isn't the first time an ...IN DEATH book's climax has read like an Eighties Action Movie, but it's one of the less satisfying ones.


Yes, Dallas - Seriously

I enjoyed the book while I read it, but next to Golden in Death, Echoes in Death, or Brotherhood in Death, it's not as good as it could be.