Fantasy in Death J. D. Robb | ISBN : 1-59413-404-9

Fantasy in Death

Author: J. D. Robb

Publisher: Thorndike Press

Publication Date: 02 August, 2010

ISBN: 9781594134043

Pages: 558

Subjects: Mystery

Available as: Trade Cloth, 978-0-399-15624-3 Trade Cloth, 978-1-4104-2190-6 Trade Paper, 978-1-59413-404-3 E-Book - , 978-1-101-18536-0

Description:

NYPSD Lieutenant Eve Dallas is having as much trouble figuring out how Bart Minnock, founder of the computer-gaming giant U-Play, was murdered as who did the murdering. The victim's girlfriend seems sincerely grief-stricken, and his quirky-but-brilliant partners at U-Play appear equally shocked. No one seemed to have a problem with the enthusiastic, high-spirited millionaire. Of course, success can attract jealousy, and gaming, like any business, has its fierce rivalries and dirty tricks - as Eve's husband, Roarke, one of U-Play's competitors, knows well. But Minnock was not naive, and quite capable of fighting back in the real world as well as the virtual one.

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Review Source: Publishers Weekly

Review Date: 2009-12-21

Lt. Eve Dallas, a top homicide cop for the New York Police and Security Department (the law enforcement agency for a mid 21st-century New York City), faces one of the more challenging cases of her career in bestseller Robb's exciting 31st "in death" novel (after Kindred in Death). When someone cuts off the head of Bart Minnock, the genius founder of the computer gaming company U-Play, apparently while he was role-playing against an imaginary opponent in a prototype of a fantasy adventure that could rock the industry, Eve investigates. Security logs show no one entered Minnock's building around the time of his murder, presenting a futuristic variation on the classic locked-room mystery. Aided by her husband, Roarke, who was a potential business rival of the victim,ÅDallas focuses on who would benefit from Minnock's death. Robb is the pseudonym of romantic suspense author Nora Roberts. (Feb.) (c) Copyright PWxyz, LLC. All rights reserved