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 When Eve Dallas is called to the scene of a gruesome whole-family murder, she discovers one child who escaped the killers' notice. Nixie Swisher latches on like a barnacle to her.  As Eve and her team solve the murder, readers see her evolution, and change of relationship with Sommerset.   I love how JD Robb orchestrates this series.  Yes, this is the eloquent Nora Roberts writing in a totally different style.  These books are some that I'll own and reread from time to time for the breath-taking character development she chronicles almost in short-hand.    

 “Winter had slid in the night like a glacier over London. A hard frost had iced the outside of his attic window and the temperature inside his rooms, with their ill-fitting windows and doors and the total lack of insulation under the roof, had plummeted.” — The Silkworm (Cormoran Strike Book 2) by Robert Galbraith https://a.co/fb1O081 “Only one subject had ever matched Charlotte for the fascination it exercised over him: unnatural death.” — The Silkworm (Cormoran Strike Book 2) by Robert Galbraith https://a.co/62alGx9

 “You could find beauty nearly anywhere if you stopped to look for it, but the battle to get through the days made it easy to forget that this totally cost-free luxury existed.” — Career of Evil (Cormoran Strike Book 3) by Robert Galbraith https://a.co/fB6yN2w I’m continuing to read these all out of order. The murderer in this one is the most repellent so far. But the prose is maybe more lovely.