Another original plot, set in around 2061 where electronics, Auto chefs and hover craft are the norm.

Brant Fitzhugh and Eliza Lane - A-listers whose glittering careers saw them rich beyond anyone's dreams. 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. They learn from the regular desk clerk, who is back from the ER, that somebody in a gray maid's uniform left the hotel at 8 a. Lane had tricked Leah into agreeing to give her a matinee performance once a week and an evening performance every month as Marcie Bright to take some of the stress away and give Rose time to rest her voice.

Robb has always had a skill at creating unusual victims and suspects, so it’s always a blast to read about them. stars: There was too much slow build in the middle, but once things started moving, I couldn't stop reading.

At home, Eve talks it through with Roarke, who tells her “love, when it’s real, doesn’t hang on conditions. Back at Central, Eve sets up her murder board before heading to Whitney’s office to discuss the upcoming media conference and Eve’s unhappiness with same and with Fitzhugh’s murder getting more manpower than a dead waiter’s.

She doesn’t remember anything new, but feels bad about giving him a hard time about leaving for New Zealand. Roarke is Irish I am always wary of all things “Irish” in books … I find the Irish characters are parodied a bit in literature and it annoys me.

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 says she will cut people to bloody ribbons with her tongue given the motive and opportunity, she’ll feed the gossip sheets nasty (but only true, otherwise they come back to bite you) tidbits to humiliate people, and she once punched a director who thought she wanted a part bad enough to let him grope under her skirt, but she kept the part and he didn’t try that again, and then a year later she revealed what happened; since she wasn’t the first or last, he became a pariah and it ruined him. I love this series and all the characters, but most of all I love the crimes and the reasons behind them. In Encore in Death Eve and Roarke are still in a happy place with lots of love and humour and no cross words. They agree that Lane loves Fitzhugh, although Eve points out that she’s put more than one person behind bars who loved the one they killed.He, his roommate, Eliza, and some other cast and crew members of the original production of Upstage were together at Act Two the night Leah Rose died, celebrating the successful final dress rehearsal. She thinks Rose chose poorly, and she's sad for what might have been, but doesn't blame anybody for her death, although if she had to pick somebody it would be Rose's mother for not taking care of her, and for getting Rose the pills. Right before the show started, when they went backstage, somebody pulled her father aside to tell him that Rose had died.

Laugh myself silly at times and I'm impressed every single time how the author makes the simplest interactions become meaningful.

I am not sure exactly why but I could never get into the story and kept falling asleep listening to the audiobook. Eve Dallas is on the case and there are more than a few twists and turns before the culprit is in cuffs. 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. There were a host of suspects and I latched onto one, never letting go until I was forced to admit defeat.