SEDUCTION IN DEATH

This Eve Dallas mystery, set in the latter part of the twenty-first century, involves two rich, spoiled, and sick young men looking for thrills and finding them in the seduction and murder of young women identified through the Internet. Robb's hyperbole-filled writing doesn't need the additional melodrama of Susan Ericksen's performance. She never persuades the listener that this is a good detective story, nor is her high-pitched voice convincing as Eve Dallas. Another narrator, Christine McMurdo-Wallis, reading GLORY IN DEATH, has been more successful at reading Robb's work without melodrama. S.S.R. (c) AudioFile 2002, Portland, Maine [Published: APR/MAY 02]