Encore in Death: An Eve Dallas Novel: 56

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The case was interesting, I really had a hard time guessing the bad guy until Eve laid it out for us. Eve thinks maybe Minerva is upset about that, plus the accident that ended her dance career, and having Upstage come around again, with Eliza riding on the break she got all those years ago because her sister died, triggered something. Suddenly he feels a pain in his body and seconds later the glass crashed to the floor right before Fitzhugh does. She says Eve got lucky here and there and then married lucky on top of it, now she’s just trying to get another notch in her belt, that’s all Eliza is to her, and she will see Eve crushed at the bottom when she’s done, and when she’s done she will sue her for every penny Roarke has.

Eve figured she used the maid gig to get into Lane’s apartment, and then found a way to stay behind, wait it out, and then changed into a cocktail dress and slipped downstairs for the party. 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. Jenkinson points at the motto posted over the break room door, "NO MATTER YOUR RACE, CREED, SEXUAL ORIENTATION, OR POLITICAL AFFILIATION, WE PROTECT AND SERVE,* BECAUSE YOU COULD GET DEAD.Peabody runs Debra Bernstein while she and Eve head back to Central; Bernstein has a long and fraudulent history, but mainly non-violent. The nanny arrives to take their two-year-old to the park, and Eve springs the question about Leah Rose being her sister to get her reaction.

Her stepmother's grandparents surprised her with a trip to New York for the opening night of Upstage (for Roger, Heaven, and Minerva). Eve thinks the mistakes keep piling up and heads to Bowen’s apartment, where she finds a vial of cyanide in her granddaughter’s room.Eve finds it suspicious that nobody had mentioned this relationship, so she has Roarke check finances for Novak and her husband, while she takes a close look at Rose Bernstein aka Leah Rose, whose file Feeney sent, and she and Peabody will interview Novak in the morning. Eve doesn’t think she was close enough to Brant to knock the drink away in time, but is still leaning away from her as the killer.

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. Peabody tells Bernstein it must have been brutal, a stab in her heart every time she thought about Lane bringing Upstage back to the same theater, exploiting that, celebrating that, dredging up all that pain again. The plot was as unique and interesting as always, but overall the cast is what makes these books so good. 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.The night Leah Rose died, the night of the final dress rehearsal, he saw Bernstein go at it with Lane, slapping her.

Lane denies being in Bernstein’s room, Peabody tosses out her shoes, Eve shows her the vodka bottle, explaining how Debra had cheap vodka in her room, and the vial with traces of cyanide. Proctor was nineteen when he and Leah Rose were an item and says she was mercurial - a tough, talented girl with a soft middle. I also laughed a bunch of times during conversations they were having (which has been a while believe me).She has a rotation of people she hits up for money, and a lot of back and forth texts with somebody to set up her fake ID as Debra Rose, house cleaner, complete with references.