Strangers in Death
In Death • Book 26
by J.D. Robb
Narrated by Susan Ericksen
Why Listen to This Audiobook?
Book 26 in a series and it still feels like the writers are trying to outdo themselves — that's the J.D. Robb trick.
- Great if you want: a procedural with sharp wit and long-running character payoff
- Listening experience: brisk and satisfying — classic locked-room energy with future-noir mood
- Narration: Ericksen owns Eve Dallas; her dry delivery makes the sarcasm land perfectly
- Skip if: you haven't started the series — context and character depth matter here
About This Audiobook
Strangers in Death, the twenty-sixth In Death novel, opens with a high-profile murder that looks, on the surface, impossibly difficult to solve: Thomas Anders found in his apartment, tied to the bed, strangled, with no trace of DNA and an airtight alibi for everyone who had reason to want him dead. Robb builds the investigation around the central puzzle of a crime so clean it suggests professional planning or an unusual personal connection to the victim that authorized entry without raising alarms. The twist, when it arrives, is earned.
Susan Ericksen narrates with the procedural authority that defines the In Death audiobook series — Dallas's clipped intelligence against the more expansive voices of Roarke and the supporting cast. At just over thirteen hours the audiobook delivers one of the series' most formally satisfying mysteries, and Ericksen's performance honors the precision of Robb's plotting.
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