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FROM: Sarah Brown <[removed]@tcpl.lib.in.us>
REC'D: 12/2/04, 3:16 PM

Can any of you recommend good read-alike matches for JD Robb's Lt. Eve Dallas
series. I've checked the archives, but didn't find much.

Particularly, what appeals to me about this series is Eve, herself- she's a
tough, in-your-face heroine who'll hit you if you see her crying. She's crusty
on the outside, but all gooey soft on the inside. She's caustic and sarcastic,
doesn't hesitate to communicate her displeasure or demands. She's what I would
term a "wounded soul," having been physically and sexually abused as a child,
and is now a NYC police investigator. She's a homicide cop and "stands for the
dead," even if it means going up against the rich and famous, fellow police
officers, or the big government. She's loyal - her friends know they can count
on her - even when it's doing something she's not particularly comfortable with
(ie. being her best friend's birth coach). She's not exactly nice - in fact,
frequently blunt and threatening.

The suspense is great, and the murders grisly. The series is set ~2050's, but
the setting is not that different from a modern police department.

And, last but CERTAINLY not least, I like the relationship between Eve and her
husband, Roarke - another wounded soul. He grew up abused, in the slums of
Ireland, made a very good, but shady life for himself and has now gone
completely legal - because his wife is a cop (ah, true love).

I am familiar with her works as Nora Roberts and enjoy most of those as well,
but the Eve Dallas series is much grittier than her Roberts works.

Thanks in advance!!

Sarah Brown

FROM: Kathy Willis <[removed]@elmhurst.edu>
REC'D: 12/2/04, 3:38 PM

You might want to try some of the Catherine Coulter FBI series...
Husband and wife team of agents.. Sherlock and Savich. Both strong
characters... Blindside is a good one... Another good series to try is
by Suzanne Chazin.. Three books so far first one is Fourth Angel, main
character is a female fire investigator with NYFD.

Sarah Brown wrote:

>Can any of you recommend good read-alike matches for JD Robb's Lt. Eve Dallas
>series. I've checked the archives, but didn't find much.
>
>Particularly, what appeals to me about this series is Eve, herself- she's a
>tough, in-your-face heroine who'll hit you if you see her crying. She's crusty
>on the outside, but all gooey soft on the inside. She's caustic and sarcastic,
>doesn't hesitate to communicate her displeasure or demands. She's what I would
>term a "wounded soul," having been physically and sexually abused as a child,
>and is now a NYC police investigator. She's a homicide cop and "stands for the
>dead," even if it means going up against the rich and famous, fellow police
>officers, or the big government. She's loyal - her friends know they can count
>on her - even when it's doing something she's not particularly comfortable with
>(ie. being her best friend's birth coach). She's not exactly nice - in fact,
>frequently blunt and threatening.
>
>The suspense is great, and the murders grisly. The series is set ~2050's, but
>the setting is not that different from a modern police department.
>
>And, last but CERTAINLY not least, I like the relationship between Eve and her
>husband, Roarke - another wounded soul. He grew up abused, in the slums of
>Ireland, made a very good, but shady life for himself and has now gone
>completely legal - because his wife is a cop (ah, true love).
>
>I am familiar with her works as Nora Roberts and enjoy most of those as well,
>but the Eve Dallas series is much grittier than her Roberts works.
>
>
>Thanks in advance!!
>
>Sarah Brown
>
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FROM: "Jessica Moyer" <[removed]@richland.edu>
REC'D: 12/2/04, 3:50 PM

I have never read the Eve series, but from your description she sounds
very like Thursday Next from the Jasper Fforde books (Eyre Affair, Lost
in a Good Book, Well of Lost Plots and Something Rotten). Thursday is a
literary detective in England in 1985, but its not our 1985, time travel
is common and Thursday has a pet dodo that she cloned herself from a
drugstore kit. Thursday is a bit of a wounded soul too, she was in the
Crimea (the war has been going on for 134 years) and is one of the only
survivors of the charge of the Light Armored Brigade. In book 1, she
ran away from her fiancee ten years ago (also a Crimean vet with only 1
leg) because she blames him and herself for her brother's death in the
charge.

Thursday is also a tough no nonsense kind of girl and she never
hesitates to shoot when its necessary (most literary detectives don't
even know how to use a gun.) And she also goes heads up with her local
administrators as well as taking on Goliath, the mega corporation that
controls most everything in England.

Jessica E. Moyer, M.S., C.A.S.
Director of Academic Resources, Learning Resources Center
Richland Community College, One College Park, Decatur, IL 62521
Phone: 217 875 7211 ext 294 Email: [removed]@richland.edu

-----Original Message-----
From: Sarah Brown [[removed]@tcpl.lib.in.us]
Sent: Thursday, December 02, 2004 3:10 PM
To: Fiction_L
Subject: JD Robb Read-Alikes

Can any of you recommend good read-alike matches for JD Robb's Lt. Eve
Dallas series. I've checked the archives, but didn't find much.

Particularly, what appeals to me about this series is Eve, herself-
she's a tough, in-your-face heroine who'll hit you if you see her
crying. She's crusty on the outside, but all gooey soft on the inside.
She's caustic and sarcastic, doesn't hesitate to communicate her
displeasure or demands. She's what I would term a "wounded soul,"
having been physically and sexually abused as a child, and is now a NYC
police investigator. She's a homicide cop and "stands for the dead,"
even if it means going up against the rich and famous, fellow police
officers, or the big government. She's loyal - her friends know they
can count on her - even when it's doing something she's not particularly
comfortable with (ie. being her best friend's birth coach). She's not
exactly nice - in fact, frequently blunt and threatening.

The suspense is great, and the murders grisly. The series is set
~2050's, but the setting is not that different from a modern police
department.

And, last but CERTAINLY not least, I like the relationship between Eve
and her husband, Roarke - another wounded soul. He grew up abused, in
the slums of Ireland, made a very good, but shady life for himself and
has now gone completely legal - because his wife is a cop (ah, true
love).

I am familiar with her works as Nora Roberts and enjoy most of those as
well, but the Eve Dallas series is much grittier than her Roberts works.

Thanks in advance!!

Sarah Brown

FROM: "Margaret Dunn Library" <[removed]@caledon.library.on.ca>
REC'D: 12/2/04, 4:19 PM

A bit of a stretch but I like Eve Dallas and I also like Munch Mancini a
recovering addict no husband though - She is an automobile mechanic who's
a little crusty on the outside
Barbara Saranella is the author Unpaid Dues is one tof the titles

Donna

FROM: Jane Jorgenson <[removed]@yahoo.com>
REC'D: 12/2/04, 5:09 PM

On the mystery end of things, I'd second the
recommendation of the Munch Mancini series and also
suggest Charlaine Harris' three series, particularly
her Lily Bard books. First Lily Bard is Shakespeare's
Landlord. I also think the Mallory books by Carol
O'Connell might be a possible choice. First in that
series is Mallory's Oracle. The Harris and O'Connell
books do include some romance, though it's not as much
a part of the series as it is in the Robb books.

From the romance end of the spectrum you might try
Double Trouble by Claire Cross, which I loved for the
snarky first person narrative of the heroine. Linda
Howard has also done some suspense/romances with tough
but wounded heroines/heros. Some titles: Dream Man,
After the Night and Shades of Twilight.

And in the realm of science fiction there is Elizabeth
Moon's Esmay Suiza series - Once a Hero is first and
David Weber/Steve White have a fabulous survivor of a
heroine in In Death Ground.

Jane Jorgenson
Alicia Ashman Branch - MPL
Madison, WI

--- Sarah Brown <[removed]@tcpl.lib.in.us> wrote:

> Can any of you recommend good read-alike matches for
> JD Robb's Lt. Eve Dallas
> series. I've checked the archives, but didn't find
> much.


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FROM: "Jennifer Compton" <[removed]@oc.edu>
REC'D: 12/2/04, 9:20 PM

I recommend Tess Gerritsen's novels featuring Jane Rizzoli (some of
her's don't). They are more medically specific because Tess had her
M.D. but I think Jane fits the profile of how you describe Eve, tough
cop, no nonsense type of personality. Two titles are The Sinner and The
Apprentice. Jane is also featured in Body Double, and I believe a
little in The Surgeon, although she is not the main character in these
last two. The novels themselves are very suspenseful and at times a
little twisted.

JJ Compton
Technical Services Librarian/Archivist
Oklahoma Christian University
(405) 425-5314
[removed]@oc.edu

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From: [removed]@maillist.webrary.org
[[removed]@maillist.webrary.org] On Behalf Of Sarah Brown
Sent: Thursday, December 02, 2004 3:10 PM
To: Fiction_L
Subject: JD Robb Read-Alikes

Can any of you recommend good read-alike matches for JD Robb's Lt. Eve
Dallas
series. I've checked the archives, but didn't find much.

Particularly, what appeals to me about this series is Eve, herself-
she's a
tough, in-your-face heroine who'll hit you if you see her crying. She's
crusty
on the outside, but all gooey soft on the inside. She's caustic and
sarcastic,
doesn't hesitate to communicate her displeasure or demands. She's what
I would
term a "wounded soul," having been physically and sexually abused as a
child,
and is now a NYC police investigator. She's a homicide cop and "stands
for the
dead," even if it means going up against the rich and famous, fellow
police
officers, or the big government. She's loyal - her friends know they
can count
on her - even when it's doing something she's not particularly
comfortable with
(ie. being her best friend's birth coach). She's not exactly nice - in
fact,
frequently blunt and threatening.

The suspense is great, and the murders grisly. The series is set
~2050's, but
the setting is not that different from a modern police department.

And, last but CERTAINLY not least, I like the relationship between Eve
and her
husband, Roarke - another wounded soul. He grew up abused, in the slums
of
Ireland, made a very good, but shady life for himself and has now gone
completely legal - because his wife is a cop (ah, true love).

I am familiar with her works as Nora Roberts and enjoy most of those as
well,
but the Eve Dallas series is much grittier than her Roberts works.

Thanks in advance!!

Sarah Brown

FROM: "christine jeffords" <[removed]@hotmail.com>
REC'D: 12/3/04, 2:38 PM

I would think that, if being set in the future isn't an absolute must, many
of the hard-boiled female detective series, like Kinsey Millhone or V. I.
Warshawski, would work. So would Cornwell's Kay Scarpetta because of the
autopsy scenes!

FROM: "Jan Doxtator" <[removed]@fibernetcc.com>
REC'D: 12/3/04, 5:32 PM

Cathleen O'Connell's character Kathleen Mallory is so crusty she's nearly
impenetrable emotionally. The series begins with 1994's Mallory's Oracle.

Jan Doxtator
Stevens Point, WI

FROM: "Robin Deffendall" <[removed]@cumberland.lib.nc.us>
REC'D: 12/6/04, 9:33 AM

I totally second Kathy Mallory, also O'Connell's other non-series book, The
Judas Child. Both have all the factors you mention except the futuristic
setting.

One correction though: it's CAROL O'Connell, not Cathleen. She is AWESOME!

Robin Deffendall
Bordeaux Branch Library
Cumberland County Public Library and Information Center
Fayetteville, NC

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From: [removed]@maillist.webrary.org [[removed]@maillist.webrary.org]
On Behalf Of Jan Doxtator
Sent: Friday, December 03, 2004 5:46 PM
To: Fiction_L
Subject: RE: JD ROBB Readalikes

Cathleen O'Connell's character Kathleen Mallory is so crusty she's nearly
impenetrable emotionally. The series begins with 1994's Mallory's Oracle.

Jan Doxtator
Stevens Point, WI

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