Calculated In Death by J. D. Robb

 

When a female lawyer is killed on her way home, Lieutenant Eve Dallas is called out.  Normally she wouldn't be called out for what appears to be a mugging gone wrong but the victim's sister-in-law is a judge.  Eve and her team quickly establish that this is no ordinary mugging although it has been staged to look like one.  This woman was murdered for a personal reason.

As the investigation begins, Eve discovers that the lawyer was working on accounts for various firms that had a deadline.  These accounts weren't normally hers but two other members of the firm had been injured in a car wreck so their case loads had been distributed to the remaining staff.  Was there something in the accounts that a firm didn't want to come to life?  Could it be serious enough to cause a murder?  Or had there been a more personal reason in the lawyer's life to cause her death?

This was my first J.D. Robb mystery.  Eve and her team are an interesting mix and Eve is married to a billionaire finance man, Rourke.  Theirs is a marriage based in love and lots of sex and cooperation between his business contacts and her legal ones.  J. D. Robb is the pseudonym for Nora Roberts and the action is set a few decades in the future which is an interesting choice as things in the novel didn't change much from what is normal now.  Readers of the series which is now fifty-eight novels will be interested to see Eve and Rourke solve another mystery.  This book is recommended for mystery readers.