Please note that I received this book from NetGalley. This did not affect my rating or review.
This is the 61st Eve Dallas/In Death book and I am not going to do a rundown really. This gets 4 stars since even though it gets a little paint by numbers here and there, it was still solid. I liked this one more than the last book in the series. In this book, Eve/Peabody and others are after an Artist who is focused on hiring LCs/street workers to pose in famous portrait paintings of the masters of the art world. Eve and her crew are setting up to take him down.
Per usual we get another serial killer running around New York and Eve doing what she does best. I do think that this one worked a lot better because we weren’t dealing with some international case. I tend to like those the least in the In Death series. Most of the characters are the same. I won’t like, I skimmed over the Nadine scenes (she has become my least favorite secondary character). And I also skimmed over the house reveal scene. We know one big party is going to come up to show off the house and I pray we don’t get to see it in literary form.
The ending was a little abrupt, I hope we hear what happens with this case down the line. It felt a bit unfinished based on what we get here.
I read this for Halloween Bingo 2025 Romantic Suspense.
