Friday Memes: Delusion in Death

Happy Friday everybody!

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This week I am spotlighting Delusion in Death by J. D. Robb. This is the 35th novel in the In Death series. This series hasn't lost its luster for me. I still eagerly await each new title in this futuristic mystery series. Here is the description of this latest story:

It was just another after-work happy-hour bar downtown, where business professionals unwound with a few drinks . . .until something went terribly wrong. And after twelve minutes of chaos and violence, eighty people lay dead.

Lieutenant Eve Dallas is trying to sort out the inexplicable events. Surviving witnesses talk about seeing things—monsters and swarms of bees. They describe sudden, overwhelming feelings of fear and rage and paranoia. When forensics gives its report, the mass delusions make more sense: It appears the bar patrons were exposed to a cocktail of chemicals and illegal drugs that could drive anyone to temporary insanity—if not kill them outright.

But that doesn’t explain who would unleash such horror—or why. And if Eve can’t figure it out fast, it could happen again, anytime, anywhere. Because it’s airborne. . . .

Beginning:

After a killer day at the office, nothing smoothed those raw edges like happy hour.

Friday 56:

"You make a good aide."

"I can get you more, if and when you need it."