Encore in Death: An Eve Dallas Novel: 56

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Lane was a demanding and hard working star and she achieved the reputation of being a bitch and was proud of it. One little quibble that I have is Eve’s lack of comprehension of ‘popular references’ – she comes across as being a bit thick and she is not - she is very intelligent- In one of the books she did not even know that Springsteen was referred to as ‘The Boss’ – c’mon now, gimme a feckin’ break. She also takes the black sneakers Eliza wore to Debra’s, along with the black pants and tee in the hamper, the wig, and the purse that still has the cyanide container and vodka in it. I also laughed a bunch of times during conversations they were having (which has been a while believe me). It was a glittering event full of A-listers, hosted by Eliza Lane and Brant Fitzhugh, a celebrity couple who'd conquered both Hollywood and Broadway.

He didn’t find anything on either of the Rowans, and when he hears Peabody’s on her way home he heads home instead of out with Baxter and Trueheart for a brew. Greene, for Debra, and she lucked into a judge who allowed her to post bail (also paid by Spindal), so Bernstein is free and back at the hotel.Everyone who’s important in the theater and film community are there to commemorate the event with rehearsals beginning the next day and Brant leaving to begin a new vid project. On the way, Eve tells Roarke she thinks Lane was the target, at least partly because he drank it on impulse, and partly because it doesn’t seem like he had any enemies, but hasn’t ruled Lane out as the killer because "the spouse is always a contender. Dolby had seen the cleaner, but didn’t realize it was Bernstein, and Cela remembers stowing her bag at the party, but again, didn’t know recognize her, and didn’t realize she never retrieved her bag. Lane had tricked Leah into agreeing to give her a matinee performance once a week and an evening performance every month as Marcie Bright to take some of the stress away and give Rose time to rest her voice. Eve heads for the interview with Bernstein, noting a few stray crumbs from Nadine’s bribe in her bullpen along the way.

She’s butted heads with many people she’s worked with, but nothing serious, saying she doesn’t have Brant’s easygoing temperament, but can’t think of anybody who would want to kill her. Peabody contacts two of the people who sent Debra money; one is an actor whose last vid Debra Bernstein was an extra in (he lost a grandson to addiction and they bonded over that), and the other is somebody Bernstein dated in Vegas.Eve tells Roarke she gave Peabody two minutes to talk about the Great House Project on the way to Queens [3], but it was really on the way across town to Vera's penthouse from the café where they met Samantha. I love this series and all the characters, but most of all I love the crimes and the reasons behind them. Eve and Peabody interview Brant’s personal assistant, Lin Jacoby, who thinks the world of Brant and also can’t think of anybody who wanted either actor dead. Over the course of the series, we've been introduced to and grown to love an entertaining cast of characters, all of whom liven up the story when things might begin to drag. Robb usually manages to weave humor in her novels, providing some much needed levity to offset some of the more serious and grim aspects of the story.

There's a handful that I don't bother listening to again, as they're fairly predictable and not so entertaining. Back at Central, Eve sets up her murder board before heading to Whitney’s office to discuss the upcoming media conference and Eve’s unhappiness with same and with Fitzhugh’s murder getting more manpower than a dead waiter’s. Over waffles, Roarke shows her some pictures of Peabody’s kitchen, which includes a living wall – herbs and other plants in pots her sister made, and a piece of the counter that’s shorter than the rest for rolling out pie dough and kneading bread dough, custom to Peabody’s height. At Lane’s building, Eve gets a feel for the elevator and security – Eliza has access to a private elevator, which nobody used the day or evening of the murder.

Roarke says he would have been 12 twenty-five years ago when Leah Rose died from an overdose: "I've failed in my duty to know all about all, even what happened in New York when I was roughly twelve and in Dublin. She says she doesn’t know how to be without Brant, that she doesn’t "think you get another once you find the love of your life. While I do enjoy the schadenfreude of those mysteries, such as last week’s The Skeleton Key, too much of a good thing starts to get a bit stale.