Vendetta in Death

I just feel like everything is the same.

Murder happens, Eve and Peabody (or Eve and Roarke because why wouldn't a civilian just go to a crime scene) show up. Investigating begins. Eve is rude to witnesses and/or victim's families. Peabody smooths things over. Then Eve works all day without eating, comes home and insults Summerset and Roarke forces her to eat food. Investigating continues. Eve talks to Mira, but really tells Mira what the profile is and at this point Mira is just there to serve tea. Eve has determined how the killer pulled it off and “that plays”, she's solved the case! But has no evidence! So she sleeps, has a dream that turns into a nightmare of victims blaming her or asking for help. She wakes, knows who the killer is and must capture them so she bullies Reo into getting her a warrant on almost no evidence, but Reo comes through. They serve the warrant, killer is mad, but arrested and then we have to hear the confession that is basically how Eve laid it out five times during the book.

Sprinkle in some of Eve being an asshole to her friends, shuddering at having babies or having to avoid Trina, some sex with Roarke and that's every book in this series. I think it's hard to read 49 books with a main character that has not grown at all. She is almost exactly the same Eve she was in Naked In Death. Everyone around her has grown. And they consider her a friend while she merely tolerates them. She has a tantrum when she's told she has to attend a press conference. Every time. She cuts Peabody off when she talks about McNab and her relationship. She's straight bitchy to Nadine. Nadine has to remind her in every book that she is not going to just report things that Eve wants to keep out of the press. She cannot be bothered to think about her friends other than how they can help her get what she wants.

I've come to realize that Eve is a shitty person. An okay cop. But a really shitty friend.