Vera tells Eve and Peabody she doesn’t appreciate being disturbed and Peabody tells Vera how much she enjoys her work on The Matriarch, that her character is so layered and fascinating.

At the morgue, Morris confirms cyanide poisoning and also that the vodka in Bernstein’s stomach was not the brand she was drinking earlier and conveniently left in the room – that one has additives and the brand ingested with cyanide was top-shelf. Robb (pseudonym for Nora Roberts) infuses murder, suspense, and drama in Encore in Death, a well-written futuristic police procedural set in New York City featuring Lieutenant Eve Dallas with the NYC police department and set around 2061. Eve tells Peabody good job on getting the confession, and they will resume in the morning while McNab looks closer at her electronics. It’s a scene of chaos that Lieutenant Eve Dallas and partner Detective Delia Peabody enter into with the monumental task of determining who’s lying and who’s telling the truth among a sea of skilled actors.Eve and Roarke take a walk to their pond after dinner, and Eve says she thinks it was Eliza, and that she added pills to Rose’s vodka. The other thing that struck me as I was reading is that this the least diverse cast of main characters in any fiction book I have read in ages. As the title suggests the setting for this book is the theatre and its players, and the initial murder is at an A-lister party.

She doesn’t remember anything new, but feels bad about giving him a hard time about leaving for New Zealand.

Chief Tibble and Commander Whitney have accepted this donation to Homicide initially, and the whole of the NYPSD to follow, from Roarke Industries. With so many witnesses, a distraught Eliza as well as her friends and staff, Eve had her work cut out. Another great book on the series, I love all the characters and their continuing storylines moving along in the background. 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. The futuristic suspense series stars Eve Dallas, a New York City police lieutenant with a dark past.

At Central, on an elevator, Eve and Peabody encounter a tourist whose purse was stolen; she is wailing, "He stole my purse. Peabody says if it turns out Rico looked the other way while Vera poisoned Lane’s drink, she will never be able to watch him catch the Christmas-loving heroine when she slips off the stepladder while hanging the shining star on the top of the tree, then go in for the long, slow, kiss, and she resents that. 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. It’s about acknowledging the effect that having another person deeply a part of your life and how things change as a result.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.