Outside of a Dog: Kate Nepveu's Book Log

From the library, more light reading, the latest Eve Dallas novel by J.D. Robb, Salvation in Death. A priest drops dead during a funeral Mass, and it turns out that someone's put cyanide in the sacramental wine.

This turns out to be a type of story that I'd been wanting Robb to write (series spoilers, ROT-13: jurer n zna vf gur bar gb chyy gur ernyyl ybat-enatr pba (pbzcner Fgenatref)), but I'm not convinced by the portrait of the central character, which is what the entire book revolves around. It was probably pushing plausibility anyway, but I felt that Robb threw in one detail too many, which resulted in a muddled and contradictory whole.

Eve and Roarke's past traumas are also stirred up by events of this book, after taking a back seat for a bit in the series. I've sometimes been unsatisfied with how these have been handled in the past, so I should note that I thought it worked pretty well here.