| Fantasy in Death |  | Author: J.D. Robb
Creator: Susan Ericksen
Publisher: Brilliance Audio on CD Unabridged
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Format: Audiobook, CD, Unabridged
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Dimensions (in): 7 x 5.1 x 1.5
ISBN: 1423383680
Dewey Decimal Number: 813.54
EAN: 9781423383680
ASIN: 1423383680
Publication Date: February 23, 2010
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Bart Minnock, founder of the computer gaming giant U-Play, enters his private room, and eagerly can’t wait to lose himself in an imaginary world, to take on the role of a sword-wielding warrior king, in his company’s latest top-secret project, Fantastical.
The next morning, he is found in the same locked room, in a pool of blood, his head separated from his body. It is the most puzzling case Lieutenant Eve Dallas has ever faced, and it is not a game. . . .
She is having as much trouble figuring out how Bart Minnock was murdered as determining who did the murdering. The victim’s girlfriend seems sincerely grief-stricken, and his quirky but brilliant partners at U-Play appear shocked as well. No one seems to have had 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 he knew how to fight back in the real world as well as the virtual one.
Eve and her team are about to enter the next level of police work, in a world where fantasy is the ultimate seduction — and the price of defeat is death.
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 its Nora, nuff said... July 25, 2010
carrottop (deltona, florida)
all books by this author are great...i have quite a collection and plan on continueing to collect...
A classic takes on the future July 19, 2010
Ariel Johnson
Robb always delivers, but this was not my favorite "In Death" book. The story is a classic locked-door mystery. You figure out HOW the victim is killed a few hundred pages before Eve does, but the WHO isn't completely obvious. I felt that this book was disappointment in its lack of character development and interpersonal relationships. Additionally, this isn't a mystery that sucks you in and grips you. I just sort of sat back and waited for it to finish. A fun, mindless treat, as most of Nora Robberts novels are, but this is not one you will remember.
 so so... July 12, 2010
M. Au (MD)
As a fan, I have bought and read all the books in this series. I find myself bored with this book. This book follows the same formula as previous books, in which, Eve caught a case, try to solve it, and try to handle her personal life in between. After the first 20 books, I began to get tired of Eve and her workaholic ways. The relationship between Eve and Roarke just seems so one way. As the series comes along, Roarke bends over backwards to fit into Eve's life, while Eve continue to be a bitch just because she has a difficult past, and "it's her way or the highway" attitude. I can't say I understand sexual abuse and the torment that follows, but after close to 30 books, I say there should be some kind of peace for Eve and it should stop being a motive that drives Eve or the excuse that made Eve the unbendable bitch. And while Roarke rhapsodizes how Eve changed/filled his life, I failed to see how Eve reciprocates that feeling since she's all about the case and torments of her past. Oh yeah, sometimes she would realize how lucky she is to have Roarke when he begs or strong-armed her into a meal together, but then she snarks about it. Why does she have to snark at everything and everyone? About relashionship/marriage..snark, about friendship...snark, about her partner...snark, her case...snark...ahhhhhh....
Maybe I'm getting burned out by this series. I mean, reading 20 something books straight would probably do that I guess. Maybe the quality of the story has lessened because my annoyance with the characters, with Eve particularly, is much more noticeable in this latest book. Whatever the case, I think I'm heading for the library for the next one instead of buying a copy for myself.
Fantastic June 15, 2010
Anonymous Book Worm (Los Angeles, CA)
As always, J.D. Robb's Fantasy series drew me right in and I couldn't put the book down. Eve and Rourke are fascinating characters and it has been fun watching Eve's personal life change and grow. She is slowing realizing how important real relationships are and has reluctantly formed many amazing especially with her husband. I look forward to the day when Eve and Roarke actually take the leap and become parents. I think it will be hilarious to watch Eve handle becoming a parent; she will be scared and very protective from the start. And of course, following along with Eve's keen mind during cases is captivating reading and this particular book was enjoyable and imaginative in the world of technology and murder.
I Heartily Recommend It! June 8, 2010
Bookreporter.com (New York, New York)
I have no idea how J.D. Robb does it. Her futuristic crime novels featuring NYPSD Lieutenant Eve Dallas consistently rock. The latest installment in the series, FANTASY IN DEATH, deals with a topic about which her readership probably couldn't care less. Play a lot of video games recently? That's where this book goes. But even if you haven't played a video game since you slipped a quarter in a Ms. Pac-Man machine in 1980, or, more recently, told your daughter to turn the Wii sound down while playing Animal Crossing, you'll wistfully wish to live long enough to try the cutting edge of virtual reality video games that Robb predicts will exist in 2060. That's how good she is.
FANTASY IN DEATH centers on the murder of Bart Minnock, the founder of U-Play, a computer-gaming giant that is to gaming in the mid-21st century what Microsoft is to computing right now. Robb gives us a front row seat at the time and place of Minnock's sudden murder by decapitation while he is playing a demo model of U-Play's latest creation, but the issue of whodunit and how they managed to do it are reserved for the end of the book. What Robb sets up for Lieutenant Dallas and the NYPSD is a futuristic variation of the classic "locked-room" mystery. Dallas, assisted in a quasi-official capacity by Roarke, her quietly perfect and apparently all-powerful husband, spend a great deal of the novel figuring out the who and the how. The former is just as puzzling as the latter.
Minnock's three partners in U-Play, each equally if differently talented and quirky, seem as upset over his death as they would over the demise of a family member. His lovely and devoted girlfriend is quickly eliminated as a suspect, as is an unscrupulous business rival. And the how --- a murder committed in a secure room that no one entered, other than the victim, either before or during the crime --- confounds the investigators as well. When a second incident takes place, however, it provides Dallas with the key to the solution to both puzzles, even as it draws her and Roarke into potential mortal jeopardy.
Is FANTASY IN DEATH Robb's best Dallas work? No, despite the fact that it is practically impossible to put down from beginning to end. While certainly worth reading, about midway through the tale, I had the feeling that there might be a tad too much padding to consider it as the equal or superior of some of the other books in the series. Some may disagree; in fact, I am well aware that it is the padding that a great percentage of her readership enjoy as much as the mystery. I will say this, however: the climax is terrific, certainly one of the best I have read this year thus far. Designed to catch the reader napping --- not to mention Dallas and Roarke --- I loved every single word of every single sentence.
I will never knock on a strange apartment door again without thinking of it. And for that, along with the brilliant locked-room variation that is the key to the story, I heartily recommend it.
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