Roberts and Robb are the same person. I read Vengeance in Death by JD Robb, which is set 50 years in the future, not that you'd notice if you weren't told on page 2. OK, I did notice two items which haven't been invented yet, but other than that nothing much has changed. I found it a fairly absorbing read, though I doubt the motivations of the person/s the detective spends the book chasing - and catching , naturally. She is a police detective, and someone is trying to frame her husband, or possibly his butler, with a series of torture murders. I may read others in the series.
I also read Black Rose by Nora Roberts, which is a romance. It was a bit too much like a soap opera for me, everybody emoting all over the place, and doing things hardly ever done in real life, like asking their mother's new boyfriend his intentions. I kept skipping whole pages of dialogue, but the plot still made sense, which is a bad sign. And why did people have to keep thinking or saying how wonderful the main character was? A definite thumbs down, but if you like the type of TV soapie where everyone goes around confronting each other loudly and emotionally, give it a go.
Vengeance in Death first published 1997
Black Rose first published 2005
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