Payback in Death

3.5 stars. The sole murder victim in the latest J.D. Robb bestseller is the former captain of the NYPSD's Internal Affairs Bureau. His former protégé, Lieutenant Don Webster, finds the body. Now he desperately needs help from Lieutenant Eve Dallas, even though he once had to take away her badge during an IAB investigation (#8 [b:Conspiracy in Death 172691 Conspiracy in Death (In Death, #8) J.D. Robb https://i.gr-assets.com/images/S/compressed.photo.goodreads.com/books/1305124508l/172691.SY75.jpg 3093655]). Unfortunately there are too many red herrings as Dallas spins her wheels, not really moving forward on the case until the very end. But we get a lovely scene in Chapter 1 as Dallas and her magnificent husband Roarke visit his relatives in Ireland (it's never not funny to see Dallas' reaction to cows), and the epilogue shows the strength of the found family ties that Dallas has developed in the course of 57+ cases.