#Payback in Death

[lizabethstucker]

Payback in Death by J. D. Robb

5 out of 5

In Death 57

Lieutenant Eve Dallas is barely back from her vacation with Roarke when she is called to the scene of a dead body. The body is Martin Greenleaf, retired Internal Affairs Bureau captain. Although an attempt to indicate suicide was made, it was too sloppy. Not to mention that neither Greenleaf's protege from the department, Detective Webster, nor his wife believe he would ever commit suicide.

Narrowing down the possible suspect list will be the biggest problem, especially considering Greenleaf was a righteous and dedicated IAB investigator, dealing with black and white, not grey when it came to dirty cops. Eve has to go by the book, but her instincts are already screaming about who is involved if she can only prove it before anyone else dies.

Starting with a visit to Roarke's family in Ireland was an endearing chapter and hinted strongly at the thread of family, both blood and chosen, that wove through this story. As Dr. Mira said, family's where you make it. But unfortunately sometimes that feeling of family and/or friendship may be only one-sided.

I know this is a much repeated refrain whenever I review the books of J. D. Robb and Nora Roberts, but the characterization is the real shining star. We know these people, not just the main characters. The supporting side people, friends and coworkers, hit just the right spots, giving a familiar ambiance to everything happening. It is what keeps the reader coming back time and again.

I honestly couldn't stop reading as I got farther into the book the second day. I kept thinking that I would go just a little bit more and then put it aside to finish cleaning the house, doing laundry, etc., but I just wasn't able to. I found this a winner and look forward to the February installment.

[mirrorcatcreditcard]

Your honor, they were watering down my favorite character and not letting them be a jerk.

[thereadingcafe]

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Book Review: PAYBACK IN DEATH by J.D. Robb

TBDR reviews PAYBACK IN DEATH by #JDRobb, a #recommendedread. #fiction #suspense #policeprocedural #romanticsuspense #StMartinsPress #InDeathSeries #recommendedseries

Payback in Death, In Death #57, by J. D. RobbISBN: 9781250284099 (hardcover)ISBN: 9781250284105 (ebook)ISBN: 9781250902283 (digital audiobook)ISBN: 9781250902276 (audiobook on CD)ASIN: B0BVKTFTVL (Audible audiobook)ASIN: B0BQGJ182N (Kindle edition)Page Count: 368Publisher: St. Martin’s PressRelease Date: September 5, 2023Genre: Fiction | Romantic Suspense | Suspense | Police Procedural A retired…

[sassypantsjaxon]

I just know Law must have been having so much fun fucking with Luffy and letting him think everyone was dead when he got to Wano

[themistymountainscold]

stede: truth or dare?

izzy: dare.

stede: i dare you to kiss the hottest person on the ship

izzy: hey ed?

ed, nervous: uh yeah?

izzy: can you move? i'm trying to get to frenchie.

[billciphermeme]

Gravity Falls Meme:

What if... Emperor Belos (The Owl House) was sent to Theraprism as a Fate Worse Than Death after he was stomped to death by the heroes?

(Spoilers for Gravity Falls' The Book of Bill)

[little-red-fool]

Bored af so I made a Higgs car in NFS.

[redfurrycat]

[At IceMav's]

Bob, Jake, Javy, Mickey and Reuben telling Mav about their favourite medical TV-show while Bradley and Nat handle the dessert.

Reuben: I got hooked up with Grey's Anatomy since the beginning. Can't get enough of the staff sleeping with each other.

Mickey: No way, man! The Good Doctor is the best show. I love Dr. Murphy! He's the best!!!

Javy: Not bad, dude, but I freaking love House M.D. There's no better one-liners than House's.

[Javy and Mickey high-fiving.]

Bob: I used to watch every Dr Quinn Medicine Woman rerun with my mum.

Mav: Good one, Bob. It's Ice's favourite too! You should come here on Wednesday, he loves to watch his favourite episodes.

Reuben: What about you, Jake?

[Javy snorts because HE KNOWS.]

Jake, dreamily distracted: ER. For one character only... Greene.

Mav, spitting out his beer through his nose: ARE YOU KIDDIN' ME?!

Jake: Nope. There's no sexiest doctor than good ol' Dr. Mark Greene.

The other men but Javy: What? What's going on? Show us Mav!

[On Mav's phone:]

Mickey: DUUUUUUDE. YOU'RE SO PREDICTABLE SOMETIMES.

[They all tease Jake who's as cool as a cucumber. He's not ashamed! The guy IS good-looking and reminds him a little of...]

Bradley: Why you guys laughing? What did we miss?

Jake: Bradshaw! As I live and breathe. Did you bring me back my cheesecake?

[polysyndetonaddictsupportgroup]

I've been rereading pez dispenser debris and god Izuku is so much braver then me, if a past version of myself showed up and started sharing my deepest darkest secrets to anyone in earshot I would not be handling it well at all. Like forget having 12 simultaneous panic attacks, I would straight up jump to murder, confirming all of baby me's worst fears. Actual nightmare scenario. Izuku is a saint for real.

Young Izuku: you obviously killed me

Older Izuku: I deserve an award for NOT killing you

[suprcomputranimalracingsimulatr]

Memory Run (1995)

[vaalthus]

The Final Steps (spoilers)

Ok, the idea of Xan looking towards Warlic as a protective buffer to keep things that are making him uncomfortable away from him is absolutely hilarious.

Ya see I still don't like the sound of that while we don't know what the intent of the other Magesters, beyond Ostromir and Vseslava, are at the moment, even with the knowledge that many of them will be dead in a short amount of time.

One thing I have noticed so far is that Zvezdana has shown consistent interest in us as a means of studying new applications and effects of magic that are not readily present in the Azaveyran continent. She mentions she doesn't have us all figured to the degree that she wishes but so far she has at least shown a good amount of insight of understanding where we stand in terms of morals and ethics, I'd say that goes for more characters in party than just the hero. What I'm getting at here it seems pretty clear for now at least that our relationship is little more than useful data collection to her.

Beyond that though I'm curious as to what these new approved pursuits the Shapeless intends to endeavor because I foresee problems arising if they found a new interests in Doom or recreating Alexander's...condition.

Hmm perhaps we should have conscripted some elves or werewolves for this fight or maybe Nikki at least.

Either way, this is some good lore on the elemental affinity a soul produces on its own or when the body is altered significantly. We already knew of course that the human body contains minute traces of all the prime elements within it, but, as anticipated, this quest just proved these elements do not exist equally within every human being on Lore, even those that have not been pushed so far into one elemental direction like Xan or Sepulchure.

Feel like the easiest way to have tested this is by having another dragonlord and their dragon in attendance since we know the others are capable of swapping the elements of their dragons as needed. Though I wouldn't be too surprised if being one of the twin dragons was all it took for Draco to be protected from the overflow of mana.

Oh what gave it away Zvezdana, my non-canonical class armor?

Not appreciating the shade thrown towards Aegis. He's a good pure and wholesome spirit, woman!

It's actually kind of funny that Aegis is protecting our soul from straining apart given that's what his role will theoretically become when we die and he'll have to protect us until we become fully fledged elemental spirits...ya know unless ya eat him later...

I wonder if this adjustment will have any permanent effect on Alteon considering he's being pushed further towards the energy element or if this will be a temporary change, like the soul self-regulating afterwards.

At first I was a little bit surprised that she no longer labeled all of us as villians that just couldn't or didn't want to see the good she was trying to do especially after she declared Warlic as little more than a manipulator after their confrontation.

Yet that surprise dies away when you realize she doesn't really have a choice but to recognize that our intent was never really all that misguided to begin with. Think about it, her truest closest confidant, the time mirror, showed her that Akanthus, her right-hand man, had betrayed her trust and when she confronted him on this, he merely verified that fact. When confronted with this information what other choice does she really have but to accept that she was being in denial of our motivations in not trusting her actions or at least the man she was allowing to command a good portion of the Rose.

Of course, it doesn't matter if she finally sees the truth about us as she's sunken too much into this plan to turn back now even though she knows her only ally now is a man that could potentially wreak havoc upon all of Lore if, and let's be honest it's more of a when, she fails to supplant the Mana Core's will.

For all intents and purposes, Jaania story still remains a tragedy and while I don't want her dead, the potential for so many ends for her are not looking good. Whether it be in failing to control the core, further betrayal from Akanthus, or us, or even plausibly one of the others in the party, looking at you Zvezdana.

[hylianengineer]

Will my family members please stop fucking dying FOR FIVE MINUTES?!

Okay TECHNICALLY I'm not related to the most recent person, but he's the father of my mom's best friend / practically adopted sister. Who is also dead as of like two years ago. And her mom died the year before that. And then six months ago we lost a close family friend who was basically my uncle and one month ago my grandpa on the OTHER side of my family got a very nasty cancer diagnosis and he's still here, thank god, knock on wood, but we have no idea for how much longer.

Please god can we have a fucking break? Especially my mom, who is the epicenter of all of it. I'm going through it but she's the one who lost her best friend and also knows all of these people much better than I do. Losing people sucks. Losing this many people in a row is so ridiculous I got this text and literally yelled "will people in our family stop fucking dying for five minutes?!" out loud.

I hate time. Make it stop.

[hatultaalul]

Hope all the amerikakot that are dancing on our blood will one day experience not only our yesterday but our years and years of survival

[augustandcandles]

Cody to the Jedi Council: it’s what General Kenobi would want, I’m honoring his memory by having ended the war

Windu, turning to stare right at Obi-Wan who is off camera, looking physically pained while also raising an eyebrow: I really wish none of this is my problem right now

AU where, while Obi-Wan is flouncing around pretending to be Hardeen, Cody and the 212th manage to end the war.

Cody: In my defence I was left unsupervised.

[ilovemagicbeans]

ranting about the ending of a band song:

^ this fucker

the piece is called the victoria peak if you wanna know

this ending is the most infuriating thing to play on trombone ever

you may look at the 1's i wrote in and deduce that they signify that all these notes are played at first position, that is correct

the funny thing about first position is that the notes that i can play on it are (from lowest to highest) b flat, f, higher b flat, higher d, higher f but i will name them 1 2 3 4 5 respectively for ease

this stupid part is telling me to play 2 4 3 5 for the first four notes

do you understand how fucking difficult that is for me???

i have to play a note, skip the next one, go BACK DOWN, then skip the next note. that sounds easy, but NO. youd be mistaken.

this is easily the hardest thing ive had to play and thats really saying something considering i could write an entire 5 paragraph essay on how one of the other songs we're doing, tribute to elvis, is the WORST song ever for my part

im first trombone by the way, soley because im the only one out of the three trombones that can play high notes, pathetic for the others, i know.

all in all this stupid ending sucks which is sad because i really like this song but this ending is making me slowly hate it

its got me like AAAAAAAAAA when i have to play that dumb ending, can i kill it slowly so that it can feel the excruiating pain that i have felt physically and mentally by playing this part? please say yes.