"Exciting police procedural"
In the fall of 2059, Lieutenant Eve Dallas of the New York
Police and Security Department and her spouse billionaire
mogul Roarke are on their way home from a business party
when she receives a notice to report to Central Park's
Belvedere Castle. Her partner Detective Peabody is
already there when Eve arrives. She tells her it is a
nasty crime scene with the victim laid out naked on an
outcropping of rocks, badly beaten pre mortem, raped and
strangled with a red ribbon, her eyes surgically cut out. Eve looks at the victim and believes that the killer will
strike again; in all probability, the culprit has killed
before. Psychic Celina Sanchez, who works the party
circuit, tells Eve that she saw the crime being committed
in a dream. Her details convince Eve that Celina is
genuine. After more women are killed, Eve and Detective
Peabody provide a television interview conducted by
reporter Nadine Furst. The Lieutenant believes the killer
will come after her but she miscalculates and the next
victim is Peabody, making this case suddenly very personal
to Eve and the entire NYPSD. J.D. Robb has written another exciting police procedural
starring characters who readers have come to love and
admire. There is a lot of action and romantic love scenes
between the various couples but it is Eve with her steel
spine and vulnerable soul that coaxes the audience to keep
coming back to read the latest book in this terrific
series. Eve, like other characters, has grown and changed
over the course of the series and even Roarke, the perfect
hunk of a husband, has learned to adapt to the life of a
police officer's spouse. Harriet Klausner
Reviewed by PNR Group Member
Posted June 12, 2004
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On one of the city's hottest nights, New York Police
Lieutenant Eve Dallas is sent to Central Park—and
into a hellish new investigation. The victim is found on
the rocks, just above the still, dark water of the lake.
Around her neck is a single red ribbon. Her hands are
posed, as if in prayer. But it is the eyes—removed
with such precision, as if done with the careful hands of
a surgeon—that have Dallas most alarmed.
As more bodies turn up, each with the same defining scars,
Eve is frantic for answers. Against her instincts, she
accepts help from a psychic who offers one vision after
another—each with shockingly accurate details of the
murders. And when partner and friend Peabody is badly
injured after escaping an attack, the stakes are raised.
Are the eyes a symbol? A twisted religious ritual? A
souvenir? With help from her husband, Roarke, Dallas must
uncover the killer's motivation before another vision
becomes another nightmare. . . . Genre: Police Procedural, Mystery, Futuristic Reading order of IN DEATH series:
1. Naked in Death (1995)
2. Glory in Death (1995)
3. Immortal in Death (1996)
4. Rapture in Death (1996)
5. Ceremony In Death (1997)
6. Vengeance in Death (1997)
7. Holiday in Death (1998)
8. Midnight in Death (1998) (in Silent Night)
9. Conspiracy in Death (1999)
10. Loyalty in Death (1999)
11. Witness in Death (2000)
12. Judgment in Death (2000)
13. Betrayal in Death (2001)
14. Interlude in Death (2001) (in Out of This World)
15. Seduction in Death (2001)
16. Reunion In Death (2002)
17. Purity in Death (2002)
18. Portrait in Death (2003)
19. Imitation in Death (2003)
20. Remember When (2003) (with Nora Roberts)
21. Divided in Death (2004)
22. Visions in Death (2004)
23. Survivor in Death (2005)
24. Origin in Death (2005)
25. Memory in Death (2006)
26. Haunted in Death (2006) (in Bump in the Night)
27. Born in Death (2006)
28. Innocent in Death (2007)
29. Eternity in Death (2007) (in Dead of Night)
30. Creation in Death (2007)
31. Strangers in Death (2008)
32. Ritual in Death (2008) (in Suite 606)
33. Salvation In Death (2008)
34. Promises in Death (2009)
35. Kindred in Death (2009)
36. Missing in Death (2009) (in The Lost)
37. Fantasy in Death (2010)
38. Indulgence in Death (2010)
39. Treachery in Death (2011)
Big Jack (2010)
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