What do you do when you have family, friends, who support you through all your ups and downs? You appreciate them. You're grateful for what you do have. Right? Right? Well, not Jerry Reinhold. After losing every job he ever held, and wasting money needlessly, his girlfriend kicked him out and he had to move back home with his parents. Jerry is a leech. Actually, he's worse than a leech. At least leeches can help people with blood diseases. Jerry just feeds off those people around him without giving thoughts to how to contribute. After seeing him not doing anything with his life, his parents gave him a choice: get a job or get out. 
 You know that saying that says don't hold onto your grudges or it may one day explode? Or something of that kind. That's exactly what happened to Jerry. After he got sick of his mother nagging, he killed her, then his father. And anyone who have wronged him in the past. The act of taking a life didn't stop there. (view spoiler)[He took all their possessions and sold them for cash, and stole whatever they had in their bank accounts. (hide spoiler)] 
 He is a selfish, and vindictive coward who doesn't give second thoughts to the consequences of his actions. All he sees are the wrongs people in his life have done him, and he's planning to kill them all one by one. 
 Jerry Reinhold is one of the worst villains in this series. But not because he was smart, or cunning, what he had was luck. And sometimes, your luck runs out, especially when you have Lieutenant Eve Dallas, NYPSD, hunting you down. His reasonings behind his actions were pretty pitiful and laughable. Again, not a smart guy. 
 This is a classic procedural In Death book. Not that every one before it isn't but I felt that the steps Eve took to get to Jerry came down to the very core of doing grunt work, asking around, digging for any crumbs, which was plenty because Jerry was careless. 
 You don't often get a close connection with all the victims in these books, but everyone of them in this one had a hold on my heart. Especially Ms. Farnsworth. Now there's a person to be admired even when she had no way out. (view spoiler)[I rooted for her so hard to escape Jerry. She didn't go down without a fight though. Even in death, she helped catch the killer. (hide spoiler)] 
 There were other great moments in this book to lighten the mood. (view spoiler)[The sunshades in the bullpen was hilarious. (hide spoiler)](view spoiler)[The medal ceremony was inspiring (hide spoiler)]. We got to see pretty much all the secondary characters at one point or another. Roarke's family visiting from Ireland was a hoot, especially little Sean. (view spoiler)[Even Nixie returned. I teared up a little near the end with the note. (hide spoiler)] 
 Another great one from the amazing JD Robb. But then again, she has rarely disappointed me with anything in this series.