"Investigator Eve Dallas gets a call from a mysterious man who tells her riddles that will lead to his crime. When Eve arrives on the scene, she is shocked by the gruesome way the victim died. The mysterious man doesn't stop there. He calls Eve again and leads her to another crime. Eve slowly figures that the victims have been associated with her husband in the past. When Eve tells her husband Roarke, he confides to her how he has one by one killed all the men responsible for his beloved friend's daughter's death. The criminal is apparently emulating the ways how those people in the past died under Roarke's hand. Eve discovers that the killer is targeting those people who helped Roarke in the past. However in one crime scene, Roarke's friend Sommerset has been implicated to be the suspect of the killings when his image appears in the surveillance video of the house of one victim. Roarke knows that Sommerset is innocent and Eve believes him too and she determinedly try to solve the mystery to acquit him of the crime. Roarke confides to Eve all the people who might have been involved with helping him in the past and Eve rushes to save them before the murderer can get to them. In the process Eve gets into a explosive accident when the murderer tries to stall Eve in her progress. Roarke becomes enraged and personally helps Eve find the killer before it's too late."
Katrina Lo, Resident Scholar
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Review Analysis of Vengeance in Death
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Plot
Composition of Book descript. of violence and chases - 20% Planning/preparing, gather info, debate puzzles/motives - 50% Feelings, relationships, character bio/development - 20% How society works & physical descript. (people, objects, places) - 10%
Tone of story
- suspenseful (sophisticated fear)
How difficult to spot villain?
- Difficult, but some clues given
Time/era of story:
- near future
What % of story relates directly
to the mystery, not the subplot?
- 80%
Special suspect?
- relative
Misc. Murder Plotlets
- killer purposefully leaves puzzle clues
- Proving innocence of very obvious suspect
Kind of investigator
- police procedural, American
Kid or adult book?
- Adult or Young Adult Book
The crook is....
- stalking/killing innocents
Any non-mystery subplot?
- feelings towards lover
Crime Thriller
Yes
Mostly a criminal POV story
Yes
Murder Mystery (killer unknown)
Yes
Is Romance a MAJOR (25%+) part of story?
Yes
Main Character
Gender
- Female
Profession/status:
- police/lawman
Age:
- 20's-30's
How much violence does he/she use?
- just the right amount
Ethnicity/Race
- White/American
How sensitive is this character?
- middling sensitive to others' feelings
Sense of humor
- Strong but gentle sense of humor
Intelligence
- Very much smarter than other characters
Physique
- very athletic
Main Adversary
Identity:
- Male
Age:
- 20's-30's
Profession/status:
- killer
How much of work is main antagonist actually present in:
- an above average amount
Motive of antagonist
- revenge
How sensitive is this character?
- hard edged
Sense of humor
- Cynical sense of humor
Intelligence
- Very much smarter than other characters
Physique
- very athletic
Setting
United States
Yes
City?
Yes
Style
Part of a series?
Yes
Person
- mostly 3rd
Accounts of torture and death?
- very gorey references to torture
How many deaths?
- 3-4
Unusual forms of death
- decapitated
Unusual form of death?
Yes
Amount of dialog
- roughly even amounts of descript and dialog
