{"id":2054,"date":"2026-06-15T17:02:00","date_gmt":"2026-06-16T00:02:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/books.randolphking.com\/?p=2054"},"modified":"2026-09-06T15:48:07","modified_gmt":"2026-09-06T22:48:07","slug":"naked-in-death-by-j-d-robb","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/books.randolphking.com\/?p=2054","title":{"rendered":"Naked in Death by J. D. Robb"},"content":{"rendered":"<div class=\"wp-block-image\">\n<figure class=\"alignleft size-large is-resized\"><a href=\"https:\/\/www.librarything.com\/work\/2317257\/book\/316346371\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/ecx.images-amazon.com\/images\/P\/0425148297.01._SX600_SY1200_SCRM_.jpg\" alt=\"\" style=\"width:202px;height:auto\"\/><\/a><\/figure>\n<\/div>\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">This series is set in the not-to-distant future. I believe this is so the author can play a little loose with culture. The technology doesn&#8217;t get in the way of the story but does play with police procedures a little bit.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">The mystery involves someone killing prostitutes, which is a legal and governed occupation in the setting. The first was the daughter of a senator who complicates the investigation. The primary suspect, on loose evidence, is an extremely wealthy man named Roarke.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">The protagonist, Lt. Eve Dallas, is a woman who begins a compromising relationship with Roarke. The investigation seems to take a back seat to the relationship for much of the book. Eve develops into a complex and interesting character through this relationship and how it relates to her boss.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">The Eve-Roarke relationship included sex scenes developed the characters but felt overly explicit and excessive. I had some trouble accepting that Eve would tolerate Roarke&#8217;s almost chauvinism and arrogance.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">The mystery&#8217;s denouement was complete and ended the book on a satisfying note.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Although the book was decent, I doubt that I&#8217;ll read more of the series. I found the love interest too much and not enough mystery, for me there are better series.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>This series is set in the not-to-distant future. I believe this is so the author can play a little loose with culture. The technology doesn&#8217;t get in the way of the story but does play with police procedures a little bit. The mystery involves someone killing prostitutes, which is a legal and governed occupation in [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[4,8],"tags":[292],"class_list":["post-2054","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-mystery","category-science-fiction","tag-j-d-robb"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/books.randolphking.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2054","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/books.randolphking.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/books.randolphking.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/books.randolphking.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/books.randolphking.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=2054"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/books.randolphking.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2054\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":2055,"href":"https:\/\/books.randolphking.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2054\/revisions\/2055"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/books.randolphking.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=2054"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/books.randolphking.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=2054"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/books.randolphking.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=2054"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}