Portrait in Death by J.D. RobbMy rating: 5 of 5 stars
How this author manages to write such engrossing mysteries with incredibly different plots is amazing to me. They just get better and better--each new book introduces more of the background of Rourke and Eve, two of the most neglected and abused children to grow into such strong successful adults, with emotional scars so deep one wonders how they go on. Their relationship is a character in itself. Add to them their supporting cast of Feeney, Eve's mentor and friend in the PD, Peabody her loyal and increasingly able uniformed aide and friend, McNab the loveable comp geek who has finally succumbed to his love of Peabody and she for his, and, of course, Summerset, Roarke's surrogate father and major domo and you have a cast indelible characters. There are others, too, just as important to them professionally and personally but too many to mention. Everyone of them is three dimensional and as a reader, you come to know and appreciate them as much as the main characters.
Even without the gruesome murders Eve and the others find themselves racing to solve, the lives of those " people" are enough to keep you coming back for more.
In this episode, physically beautiful, artistic, morally impecible young people are being murdered. The killer does his/her best to not mar the bodies in any way and once entrapped and killed, they are posed using piano wire in such a way as to spotlight their beauty and purity, and then professionally photographed. Once done, the body is literally dumped somewhere to be found. Who is this meticulous photographer and what is the motive for cutting short such promising lives?
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