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Celebrity In Death

Lieutenant Eve Dallas is no party girl, but she's managing to have a reasonably good time at the celebrity-packed bash celebrating The Icove Agenda, a film based on one of her famous cases. It's a little spooky seeing the actress playing her, who looks almost like her long-lost twin. Not as unsettling, though, as seeing the actress who plays Peabody drowned in the lap pool on the roof of the director's luxury building. Now she's at the center of a crime scene-and Eve is more than ready to get out of her high heels and strap on her holster and step into the role she was born to play: cop.

Reviewer: Angibabi4
Review: Feb 14, 2012
Genre(s): Suspense
JD Robb has done it again with her "In Death" series. I absolutely love her books. She totally immerses the reader in the story. I started reading the "In Death" series 10 years ago and anxiously await each new installment. The storylines are awesome, the chemistry between all the characters is phenomenal, and the sex is sizzling. Roarke and Eve's love story never disappoints and gets better with each book.

The Unquiet

Five New York Times bestselling authors-five superlative stories.

From J.D. Robb: Eve and Rourke return to investigate a series of murders connected to a brilliant young surgeon in Chaos in Death.

From Mary Blayney: A shopkeeper's solitude is complicated by a magic coin, a daring rogue, and dreams of her late husband, who whispers but one word...wish.

From Patricia Gaffney: A lonely woman and a hotline psychic turn their astonishing connection to the other side into an unexpected romance.

From Ruth Ryan Langan: The shattered soul of an angry spirit imprisoned in a Scottish manor house could be a young widow's only salvation.

From Mary Kay McComas: A young ghost eases his brother's pain and guilt by inviting him into the dreams of an imaginative author of children's books.

Reviewer: ELF
Review: Sep 16, 2011
Genre(s): Romantic Suspense, Anthologies
The Unquiet is an anthology featuring five remarkable authors who have joined forces yet again to provide yet another enjoyable collection of stories. J.D. Robb's exquisitely fascinating Lieutenant Eve Dallas is presented with yet another mass murderer who provides an enigma in the tale Chaos in Death. Her recovery from the traumatic events detailed in New York to Dallas is progressing but that doesn't pre

New York to Dallas

The new novel from the #1 New York Times-bestselling author, which takes readers deeper into the mind of Eve Dallas than ever before.

The number-one New York Times-bestselling author J. D. Robb presents an intense and terrifying new case for New York homicide cop Eve Dallas, one that will take her all the way to the city that gave her her name-and plunge her into the nightmares of her childhood.

When a monster named Isaac McQueen-taken down by Eve back in her uniform days-escapes from Rikers, he has two things in mind. One is to pick up where he left off, abducting young victims and leaving them scarred in both mind and body. The other is to get revenge on the woman who stopped him all those years ago.

Reviewer: ELF
Review: Aug 15, 2011
Genre(s): Suspense
J.D. Robb's latest Lieutenant Eve Dallas saga, New York to Dallas, is a tension-laden, emotionally intense thrill ride of a read. One of the most significant felons of the Lieutenant's early career has escaped from prison and is out to wreak revenge on her while he picks up where he left off, terrorizing and molesting young girls. The parallels to Eve's hellish early years cause all of her festering emotion

Treachery in Death

In the latest from the #1 New York Times bestselling phenomenon, Eve Dallas tracks down those who break the law-including the ones sworn to uphold it.

Detective Eve Dallas and her partner, Peabody, are following up on a senseless crime-an elderly grocery owner killed by three stoned punks for nothing more than kicks and snacks. This is Peabody's first case as primary detective-good thing she learned from the master.

But Peabody soon stumbles upon a trickier situation. After a hard workout, she's all alone in the locker room when the gym door clatters open; and-while hiding inside a shower stall trying not to make a sound-she overhears two fellow officers, Garnet and Oberman, arguing. It doesn't take long to realize they're both crooked-guilty not just of corruption but of murder. Now Peabody, Eve, and Eve's husband, Roarke, are trying to get the hard evidence they need to bring the dirty cops down-knowing all the while that the two are willing to kill to keep their secret.

Reviewer: ELF
Review: Feb 8, 2011
Genre(s): Suspense
Treachery in Death  by J.D. Robb is the latest enthralling entry in her futuristic police series.  Peabody, Lieutenant Eve Dallas’ protege comes into her own and takes the lead on an investigation which results in her being in the wrong place at the right time.  A chilling conversation that Peabody inadvertently overhears leads her to the anathema of those who are true to the badge, dirty

The Other Side

Five New York Times bestselling authors cross over to a realm where suspense, desire, and love have no bounds.

J.D. Robb: Lieutenant Eve Dallas has always sought justice for the dead, but now, a victim will seek her own vengeance-through Eve.

Mary Blayney: An earl and his countess struggle to understand one another, until they spend a day in each other's shoes-and bodies.

Patricia Gaffney: To prove her ancestral home is haunted, a woman hires a spirit investigator, but they end up debunking the mystery of love.

Ruth Ryan Langan: A couple who dies in a car accident struggler to stay in their daughter's life to save her from the wrong man.

Mary Kay McComas: A practical woman is faced with the most impractical ghosts, who can't rest in peace until they find what they have lost.

Reviewer: Jen719
Review: Dec 1, 2010
Genre(s): Anthologies, Suspense
The Other Side anthology is made up of five great stories that deal with the paranormal. In Possession in Death, Eve Dallas has always been a voice for the dead, but in this installment, she can actually speak to the dead and find justice for them. After closing a trying case, Eve finds a dying elderly woman in the streets on her way home. The woman has been attacked by an assailant with a knife and makes Eve

Indulgence in Death

An indulgence for readers: the new Eve Dallas novel from the #1 New York Times-bestselling author.

First it was a limo driver shot through the neck with a crossbow. Then it was a high-priced escort found stabbed through the heart with a bayonet.

Random hits, thrill kills, murderers with a taste for the finer things in life-and death-are making NYPSD Lieutenant Eve Dallas angry. And an angry Eve can be just as an efficient and dangerous predator as the killer.

As time runs out on another innocent victim's life, Eve's investigation will take her into the rarefied circle that her husband, Roarke, travels in-and into the perverted heart of madness...

 

Reviewer: Maria
Review: Oct 19, 2010
Genre(s): Suspense
A limo driver killed by a crossbow, an exclusive escort stabbed by a bayonet, these are the latest cases to land on the desk of Lieutenant Eve Dallas. Killers with an appetite for the choice things in life are making Eve angry and make her a shrewd and formidable adversary. As time runs out for another target, Eve’s search leads her to the wealthy and exclusive circle that her husband, Roarke, navigat

Divided in Death

The year is 2059. It is a future in which technology and humanity collide, and a new computer virus has become the latest form of terrorism.

Reva Ewing, a former member of the Secret Service, a security specialist for Roarke Enterprises, is a prime suspect in a double homicide. She had every reason to want to kill her husband, the renowned artist Blair Bissel. Not only was he having an affair, he was having it with her best friend. But Lieutenant Eve Dallas, who's on the case, believes Reva is innocent. Eve's instincts tell her that the murder scene looks too perfectly staged, the apparent answers too obvious. And when she digs for more, she discovers that at nearly the exact time a kitchen knife was jammed into the victim's ribs, the passcode to his art studio was changed - and all of the data on his computer deliberately corrupted.

To Roarke, it's the computer attack that poses the real threat. Signs show that this is the nightmare his company has secretly been preparing for. He and Reva have been under a code-red government contract to develop a program that would shield against a new breed of hackers, the Doomsday Group. These techno-terrorists with brilliant minds and plenty of financial backing hack into systems, steal data, and corrupt computer units on a large scale and kill anyone who gets too close.
 
Eve and Roarke must infiltrate an extraordinarily secretive government agency to expose the corruption at its core, before the virus spreads from one office to a corporation to the entire country.
Reviewer: Leslee
Review: Apr 21, 2010
Genre(s): Suspense
Reva Ewing, a security expert employed by a division of Roarke Industries, finds herself in the heart-wrenching position of spouse who has been cheated on. It is further compounded by the fact that her husband cheated on her with her best friend. When she tears over to her friend’s house to confront them, she discovers them dead. Whoever did it made it look like Reva stabbed them in a jealous rage. Righ

Fantasy In Death

In the latest novel from #1 New York Times-bestselling author J.D. Robb, it is game over for the criminals pursued by NYPSD Lieutenant Eve Dallas. Bart Minnock, founder of the computer-gaming giant U-Play, enters his private playroom, and eagerly can't wait to lose himself in an imaginary world, to play the role of a sword-wielding warrior king, in his company's latest top-secret project, Fantastical. The next morning, he is found in the same locked room, in a pool of blood, his head separated from his body. It is the most puzzling case Eve Dallas has ever faced, and it is not a game. . . . NYPSD Lieutenant Eve Dallas is having as much trouble figuring out how Bart Minnock was murdered as who did the murdering. The victim's girlfriend seems sincerely grief-stricken, and his quirky-but-brilliant partners at U-Play appear equally shocked. No one seemed to have a prob¡lem with the enthusiastic, high-spirited millionaire. Of course, success can attract jealousy, and gaming, like any business, has its fierce rivalries and dirty tricks-as Eve's husband, Roarke, one of U- Play's competitors, knows well. But Minnock was not naive, and quite capable of fighting back in the real world as well as the virtual one. Eve and her team are about to enter the next level of police work, in a world where fantasy is the ultimate seduction-and the price of defeat is death. . . .

Reviewer: Chris
Review: Apr 19, 2010
Genre(s): Suspense
Bart Minnock is on top of the world. He has a dream job in a company he founded and runs with his best friends, a great girlfriend, an apartment full of grown up toys, and is trying out his company’s latest role playing game in his private holoroom. But when the battle with his nemesis reaches the critical point where he always loses, he loses more than the game this time. He loses his head. Literally.

The Lost

J. D. Robb's Missing in Death investigates a female tourist's disappearance during a ferry ride. Detective Eve Dallas wonders...if she didn't jump, and she's not on board, then where in the world is she?

In Patricia Gaffney's The Dog Days of Laurie Summer, a woman awakens to a familiar yet unsettling world.

In Mary Blayney's Lost in Paradise, a man locked in an island fortress finds hope for freedom in an enigmatic nurse.

And Ruth Ryan Langan's Legacy belongs to a young woman who unearths a family secret buried on the grounds of a magnificent but imposing Irish castle.

Reviewer: Chris
Review: Oct 25, 2009
Genre(s): Paranormal Romance, Anthologies
Entitled the Lost, this book is really about redemption.  Four stories from four authors, each unique and with its’ own message for the reader to interpret.  I enjoyed all four stories, but my favorite was the Legacy by Ruth Ryan Langan.  A woman on the edge of dismay is swept into a fantasy world and given more than she ever dreamed.  Can it really be hers to keep? J.D. Robb’

Suite 606

FEATURING A NEW EVE DALLAS NOVELLA.

J.D. Robb plunges Lieutenant Eve Dallas into the violent aftermath of a ritualistic murder.

Mary Blayney, investigates a deception that has kept two lovers apart for years.

Ruth Ryan Langan brings a lost man out of a storm to face a breathtaking twist of fate.

And Mary Kay McComas follows a mother, her son, and a wizard lost through the threads of time. 

Reviewer: Leslee
Review: Sep 26, 2008
Genre(s): Romantic Suspense
J.D. Robb turns in another stellar story featuring Eve and Roarke. Ritual in Death opens with Eve and her delicious man at this really swanky party when a naked disoriented man covered in blood carrying a knife stumbles in. The blood trail leads straight to Suite 606 with a smear of blood transforming it to Suite 666. What they find inside is a nightmare with a magical undertone. Eve and the gang are the best

Strangers in Death

Technology may be different in 2060 New York, yet the city is still a place of many cultures and great divides. But as ever, some murders receive more attention than others-especially those in which the victim is a prominent businessman, found in his Park Avenue apartment, tied to the bed-and strangled-with cords of black velvet. It doesn't surprise Lieutenant Eve Dallas that Thomas Anders's scandalous death is a source of titillation and speculation to the public-and of humiliation to his family. But while people in the city are talking about it, those close to Anders aren't so anxious to do the same. With some help from her billionaire husband, Roarke, Eve's soon knocking on doors-or barging through them-to find answers. But the facts don't add up. Physical evidence suggests that the victim didn't struggle. The security breach in the apartment indicates that the killer was someone known to the family, but everyone's alibi checks out. Was this a crime of passion in a kinky game gone wrong-or a meticulously planned execution? It's up to Dallas to solve a case in which strangers may be connected in unexpected, and deadly, ways.

Reviewer: Cindy_
Review: Feb 27, 2008
Genre(s): Sci-Fi / Fantasy
I have loved this series from the first book and while some are more intriguing to me all are keepers on my shelves and I would not part with them. In the year 2060 Eve is called to investigate the death of sports mogul Tom Anders. This appears at first to be a crime of sexual deviancy gone wrong. And when things just aren't adding up right for Eve she recruit's the help of hubby Roarke and partner Detec

Innocent in Death

Synopsis by the Reviewer: It is the year 2060. Lt. Eve Dallas and her partner, Detective Delia Peabody of the NYPSD, report to a private school to investigate the sudden death of a history teacher. With all the factors taken into account, the list of suspects is quite long. As they take a closer look at the administration and parents of students, they discover there is a lot more going on at this school. Along with the case to solve, Eve has a personal issue crop up which steals some of her focus. While out to dinner with some of her husband’s business associates, Madelene , a woman from Roarke’s past slithers into town. It is obvious she is up to something, but the question is what. Sommerset, Roarke’s butler and Eve’s nemesis, surprisingly doesn’t trust Madelene’s motives either. Roarke defends Madelene to them both with painful consequences. Will Roarke and Eve survive this assault to their relationship while Eve tries to bring the killer to justice?

Reviewer: Leslee
Review: Mar 5, 2007
Genre(s): Romantic Suspense, Sci-Fi / Fantasy
This is number 24 in the ongoing series of Eve Dallas and her yummy husband Roarke. If you are a novice to the In Death books, you will have to start at the beginning with Naked in Death. I recommend getting several in a row, because as with Ruffles, you can't read just one. This series is futuristic but it is definitely no Star Trek. For all the progress humans have made, murder has not gone out of style. Ev

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