[To] the question of whether the later stories can still bring the excitement of the earlier books...the answer is a resounding yes—although, that depends on what you’re looking for ... It’s the little bits of growth in each book that are rewarding to longtime readers. But it’s the police procedural part that kept me glued to the page until the ending.
Robb again remixes and remasters all the addictively readable ingredients her readers have come to crave, including a tough-as-nails protagonist who takes guff from no one, a plethora of engaging secondary characters who each play their roles to perfection, a generous dash of hot-as-sin sex, and a fine-tuned, tautly paced plot that relentlessly ticks along to the book’s satisfying conclusion.
Only non-fans or super-picky-snarky ones will be disappointed. The rest of us will jump in and go for the ride, coming out satisfied. ... Established fans will gobble up Leverage in Death as eagerly as the previous volumes. New readers who like this sort of thing will soon become fans.
Less whodunit than whydunit and howtocatchem...A nifty, if exceptionally coldblooded, criminal plan buried in close to 400 pages of mostly forgettable suspects and dialogue. There’s not even much detail about the good life in 2061 this time around.
