106. Title & Author: Strangers in Death by J.D. Robb (373 pages)*Genre: Fiction--Crime
Completed: 31 July 2009
Summary & Review:
Eve Dallas, a New York City detective in the year 2060, is called in to solve the murder of a prominent businessman and philanthropist. Her eye immediately falls on the man's widow but she struggles to find the evidence necessary to charge her with the crime until a seemingly unrelated murder that had been cold for months appears to hold the missing pieces.
First of all, why was this book set fifty years in the future? Despite a few frivolous details thrown in about "airboards" (which I can only picture looking like the hover-boards in Back to the Future II) and "Pepsi Tubes," the futuristic setting had absolutely nothing to do with the plot of the book. Also, apparently in fifty years we will have completely forgotten, as a society, anything about American history since Eve Dallas was completely perplexed as to who Alexander Hamilton was. Aside from the utterly pointless futuristic setting, Eve Dallas was an thoroughly unlikable character who was full of obnoxious pseudo-bravado like telling her friends she would rip off their fingers and feed them to them if they didn't do what she wanted. I won't be reading another Robb, or any Nora Robers (as Robb is a pen name for Roberts), again.
Rating: 3.5
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