Witness in Death

With the new releases of J.D. Robb’s In Death Series coming up in September, I am trying to catch up on some of the titles that I haven’t been able to get to. Witness in Death involves Detective Eve Dallas not only as the primary detective but also as a key witness to the murder of a leading actor. When people say that life imitates art, they were not joking around.


Roarke and Eve are enjoying the opening night of the play Witness for the Prosecution by Agatha Christie When their pleasant night away from real life murder is destroyed. As always Susan Ericksen brings not only the characters of Eve, Roarke and Eve’s team to life, but also the many other flamboyant characters all actors suspects the actual murder that took place on stage—and each actor had a motive to kill.

As a big fan of Agatha Christie I like that Robb intermingles a few of her classics: Witness for the Prosecution and Murder on the Orient Express. Has the killer used these classics as a blue print for murder? Eve has to determine what is fact or fiction in a room full of actors trained to make fiction into facts.

E.D