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In Death #21-25
Origin in Death / Memory in Death / Born in Death / Innocent in Death / Creation in Death
In this collection including books 21-25 in J. D. Robb's #1 New York Times bestselling In Death series, the incomparable Eve Dallas—a hard-shelled homicide detective whose logical mind, fierce heart, and brilliant police work in a futuristic New York City have attracted millions of fans—takes on five unforgetable cases...ORIGIN IN DEATHMEMORY IN DEATHBORN IN DEATHINNOCENT IN DEATHCREATION IN DEATH
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172 books35.1k followersJ.D. Robb is the author of the #1 New York Times bestselling In Death series and the pseudonym for #1 New York Times bestselling author Nora Roberts. The futuristic suspense series stars Eve Dallas, a New York City police lieutenant with a dark past. Initially conceived as a trilogy, readers clamored for more of Eve and the mysterious Roarke. Forgotten in Death (St. Martin's Press, September 2021) is the 53rd entry in the series.
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December 31, 2012I love JD Robb books, I have read all of the "In Death" series. I have been patiently waiting for the next book....Please write more soon!!!
June 6, 2019
Some excellent story telling.
The Icove case was crazy interesting, but birth in death and seeing Eve and Roarke so out of their element was the funniest and my favorite.
The Icove case was crazy interesting, but birth in death and seeing Eve and Roarke so out of their element was the funniest and my favorite.
March 13, 2022
Origin in Death:
YES! I couldn’t remember what book number the Icove murders was, but here it is. Goddess! They follow through the whole rest of the series because of Nadine writing the bestseller book about it, and it becoming a vid.
First time we see Morris and Detective Coltraine… that’s the saddest book when she gets murdered. Morris is messed up for a long time! Funny how I remember some so clearly and others not.
Dammit Peabody kills me
“What kind of name is Amaryllis?” Eve demanded when she and Peabody were back in the car.
“Floral. You’re jealous.”
“I’m what?”
“You and Morris have a thing. Most of us have a little thing for Morris, who is oddly sexy. But the two of you have a special thing, and here comes Southern Belle Barbie getting him worked up.”
“I don’t have a thing for Morris. We’re friendly associates. And her name was Amaryllis, not Barbie.”
“The doll, Dallas. You know, Barbie doll. Jeez, didn’t you ever have dollies?”
“Dolls are like small dead people. I have enough dead people, thanks. But yeah, now I get you. Ammy for short? How can you be a cop with a name like that? Hello, my name is Ammy, and I’ll be arresting you today. Please.”
“It’s a nice little thing you’ve got with Morris.”
“There is no thing, Peabody.”
”Right, like you never thought of doing him on one of the slabs in there.”
When Eve choked on her Pepsi, Peabody shrugged. “Okay, that’s just me, then. Hey look, it stopped raining, which is a big change of subject before I further humiliate myself.”
Eve caught her breath, stared straight ahead. “We’ll never speak of this again.”
“That’d be best.”
Ooh, this is the book where Roarke gives her the kick-ass long, black leather coat. I wonder which book it is where he has it upgraded with inserts for safety?
First sighting of APA Cher Reo. I’d forgotten that the first time they really worked together was on the Icove murders, and that Jr.’s body is the first one Cher’s ever seen outside of pictures, etc.
Aw, Jenkinson is introduced. He, Baxter, Trueheart, and a few more become the core of the homicide detectives throughout the series.
It’s not often Mira and Eve go toe to toe but it’s a doozy scene at the school.
Mira started for the door, paused. “I’m entitled to some degree of upset,” she said. “To my irrational outbursts earlier, to anger and hurt feelings.”
“I’m entitled to expect you to be perfect, because that’s how I see you. So if you go around acting flawed and human like the rest of us lower beings, it’s going to throw me off.”
“That’s so completely unfair. And touching. Do you know there’s no one in this world who can annoy me so much as you, other than Dennis and my own children?”
Eve slid her hands into her pockets. “I guess that’s supposed to be touching, too, but it sounds like a slap.”
A smile whispered around Mira’s lips. “That’s a mother’s trick, and one of my favorites. Good night, Eve.”
This might be the only book in the series, to date, where Eve doesn’t want her suspect(s) caged. These clones have been caged their entire lives. Eve is happy the PA doesn’t want to put them on trial, but they all know what will happen when the Feds and other alphabet agencies get a hold of these women, children, and babies.
Oh goddess. Roarke invited some of his newfound family from Ireland to come for the Thanksgiving holiday. He and Eve are baffled with all of these people and children. 😂
I wonder if Roarke will ever see little Diana again? As of right now, I’ve read through book #54 in the series and I haven’t seen her. Hmm.
“Where’s Diana, and the other two?”
He looked toward the sky, noted the stars were going out. “I couldn’t say.”
“You let them go.”
His eyes were tired, but perfectly clear when they met hers. “Did you intend to do differently?”
She didn’t speak for a moment. “I contacted Feeney to request he shut down the tracker. No need. When the place blew, the homers disengaged. Officially, Diana Rodriguez is dead. Lost in the explosion that took place in the Quiet Birth facilities. There’s no record of the other two minors. There won’t be.”
“And no one exists, officially, without records.”
“There’s technology for you. Avril Icove is missing. I have a deathbed confession that clears her of all involvement with the homicides under my jurisdiction. Even without it, the PA doesn’t intend to charge. It would be an inefficient use of departmental time and funds to attempt to locate her, at this time. Federal authorities may think different.”
“But they won’t find her.”
“Unlikely.”
I guess I’d remembered the ending a little different, but I suppose it would have been impractical for them to have been able to get all the cloned children and babies away. Especially since the police and CPS were there as backup.
One of my favorite books in the series!
Memory in Death:
Somehow I kept thinking this story was earlier in the series. This is the one where Eve’s foster “mother” comes to visit bringing her bio-son and his wife. His wife is one of Trudy’s former “kids” and she’s got a long con going on.
Eve cracks me up with her innate uncomfortableness regarding gifts, friends, parties, etc.
Shit, she thought as she headed downstairs. Was there anything else? Why were there all these people who had to be crossed off her pick-up-something list? Was she actually going to have to start making a list?
If it came to that it might be best to move away altogether and start over.
The best part of this story, IMO, is when Trudy makes the mistake of going to see Roarke in his office to bribe him.
”And Bobby? Why my Bobby’s fretting to see her. He was like a brother to her.”
“Really? How odd then she’s never mentioned him.”
Her smile was indulgent now, and just a little sly. “I think she had just a tiny little crush on him. I expect she doesn’t want you to be jealous.”
His laugh was quick, rich and long. “Please. Now, if you’d like, you can certainly leave your name and address with my administrative assistant. If the lieutenant wants to contact you, she will. Otherwise . . .”
“Now this just won’t do. This won’t do at all.” Trudy sat up straighter, and her tone took on a little lash. “I took care of that girl for over six months, took her into my home out of the goodness of my heart. And believe me when I say she wasn’t easy. I think I deserve more than this.”
“Do you? And what do you think you deserve?”
“I’m compensating you,” he interrupted, “by not getting up, coming over there, and twisting your head off your neck with my bare hands.”
She gasped, theatrically. “You’re threatening me?”
“Indeed, I’m not,” he continued in the same easy tone. “I’m explaining to you how you’re being compensated for walking away from this. I’m telling you what’s not happening to you, and believe me, it’s costing me dearly not to put my hands on you for what you did to my wife when she was defenseless.”
He rose, slowly. There wasn’t a gasp this time, and no theatrics. She simply froze as all the blood drained out of her face. Finally, he decided, she saw what was under his own shell, under the sophistication, the style, the manners money had bought him.
Even a viper hadn’t a prayer against it.
Yep, still the best part of the whole story. Well, that and their holiday celebrations!
There were ladders and tarps and tables and chairs, there were candles and fabrics. The guy in charge of setting up the platform for the orchestra, or band—she wasn’t sure which it was—was arguing with the guy in charge of some of the miles of garland.
She hoped they came to blows. That, at least, would be her territory.
It seemed Roarke had taken her at her word about supervising the ballroom decorations. What had he been thinking?
Someone was always asking her what she thought, what she wanted, if she’d prefer this to that, or the other thing.
One of the crew had actually rushed from the room in tears the third time Eve said she didn’t care.
HA! I’d forgotten about Eve chasing the purse snatcher, Nadine and her camera crew, and the holiday excitement! Hilarious scene.
Halfway down the steps, Nadine risked a broken neck by rushing. “Get on her!” she shouted to her camera. “Stay on her. Look at her go!” When Peabody and McNab whizzed by, Nadine all but danced on the courthouse steps. “Don’t lose them, for God’s sake.”
“I’ve never had so much excitement. Why, that man just shoved me right down on the ground! I’m from a little place called White Springs—just south of Wichita, Kansas. I’ve never had so much excitement.”
It had to be said. “You’re not in Kansas anymore.”
The wonders of this authors dialogue is nothing short of stupendous. It’s truly a HUGE part of why I’ve stayed with this series for so long.
Not my favorite of the series, except for a few places here and there. Good ending.
Born in Death:
HAHAHAHA - this is the one with Mavis’ baby shower!!
“Babies don’t come out with teeth, do they?”
“No. I don’t see how…” Roarke lowered his cup, gave her a baffled look. “Why do you put thoughts like that in my head?”
“They’re in mine, pal, they’re in yours.”
Again, I’m remembering more about Mavis’s baby shower, etc. than I am about the who and the why of the murder.
“It’s perfume. The real thing, not the off-brand or the cheaper eau de whatever. I like to go in and get sprayed with it when I troll the higher-end department stores.”
“You’re the one?”
“The one what?”
“The one person in the known universe who likes to get sprayed by those spritz guerrillas.”
Peabody stiffened her shoulders, lifted her head high. “We are more than one. We are a small, yet sweet-smelling army.”
“We have to do the games.” Peabody had a gleam in her eye that might have come from the bellinis, or the overdose of estrogen.
“Go ahead,” Eve told her.
“Nuh-uh! You have to run them. If I do it, I can’t play. I wanna play.”
“Don’t look at me,” Nadine said when Eve turned to her.
“Oh, hell. Fine, great. I’m on it.” She’d run ops, she ran a squad of detectives. She could handle a hundred women over a bunch of stupid games.
They were insane, Eve discovered within the first fifteen minutes. The room was packed with women who were psychotic and certifiable. Screaming, shouting, laughing like mental patients over the race to decipher each rubric she held up. She wasn’t entirely sure she wouldn’t be forced to subdue a brunette who looked big enough to be carrying triplets.
Mavis having her baby is still one of the best and most hilarious moments in this entire series.
Innocent in Death:
Oh yeah, this is the one where the bitchy (and I’m saying that nicely) ex-flame, Magdalena, of Roarke’s shows up to cause havoc. Bitch.
I’m vaguely remembering this one…one of the kids is the murderer, maybe? I think it’s Rayleen, maybe? Yes, I think it is. She didn’t get the grade she wanted?? Yeah, Ray is psycho, even pushed her little brother down the stairs a few years before out of jealousy.
And when someone said his name, and he glanced toward them, Eve saw something come into his eyes, just a flash of it. A something she’d only seen when he looked at her.
It was gone, shuttered down into polite pleasure. But it had been there. Very slowly, Eve tracked her gaze over, and saw her.
She was stunning, in a bold red dress that managed to be both elegant and sexy. Long legs ended in the glitter of paper-thin silver heels. Her hair was a long, waving stream of delicate blond, clipped at the sides with something small and sparkling. Her eyes were brilliantly green, full of life and excitement that translated to sexual power. Her lips were full, very red and lush against luminous skin.
“I don’t know you, so how can I say? Roarke did mention I wouldn’t like you, and I suppose I’m just contrary enough that I wanted to prove him wrong. So I hoped we could have a drink, and diffuse any potential problems. Especially since he’s going to be helping me with some of my affairs.”
“Funny.” And the fist in her belly went slippery and sick. “You look like the type who can handle her own affairs just fine.”
“Business affairs. We’d both know Roarke has no equal when it comes to financial affairs. Or, let’s be honest, any sort of affair.” She gave a light laugh. “But this is strictly business, I promise. After we had lunch today and he agreed to work with me, it suddenly occurred that you might think it was something other than business. After all, he’s a gorgeous and alluring man, and he and I were…”
“Were would be the operative verb.”
“Yes. Absolutely. You see, I caused him pain a long time ago, I don’t want to be responsible for that again. If things work out as I hope, I’ll have business in New York for some time. I’m hoping we can all be friends.”
She knew bullshit when it was being tossed at her by the shovelful. “You know, Ms. Purcell, I’m at absolute capacity in the friend department. You’ll have to apply elsewhere. As for Roarke and his business, that’s his deal. As for you, let’s get this straight: You don’t look stupid, so I don’t believe you think you’re the first of Roarke’s discarded skirts to swing back this way. You don’t worry me. In fact, you don’t much interest me. So if that’s all?”
Slowly, Magdelana slid off the desk. “The man is just never wrong is he? I don’t like you.”
“Aw.”
She moved to the door, then stopped, leaned on the jamb as she looked over at Eve again. “Just one thing? He didn’t discard me. I discarded him. And since you don’t look stupid either, you know that makes all the difference.”
This is one of my most favorite interactions between Eve and Summerset:
“Couldn’t wait to rub my face in that one. I bet you’re just dancing a jig that Maggie’s in town. Well, you can—”
“On the contrary,” he interrupted with absolute calm. “I couldn’t be less pleased. I’d like a moment of your time.”
“For what?” His jaw tightened, and she saw she’d been wrong.
There were ripples under the calm. “I dislike discussing Roarke this way, and you’re only making it more difficult. However, my concerns leave me, I feel, little choice in the matter.”
She started out, stepped, and made herself turn around, meet Summerset’s eyes. “She’s a manipulator. I get that. She’s also beautiful, polished, sophisticated, smart. Smart enough, I’d bet your skinny ass, to settle happily with what Roarke’s got at his fingertips now. Basically, she’s just the type I’d think you’d do a happy dance if he flipped me for.”
She had to take a breath so her voice would stay steady. “She wouldn’t track blood into the house, she’d know just what dress to wear to the next dinner party. And she wouldn’t forget there was a goddamn dinner party because she was standing over a dead body. So, why tell me all this?”
“She would be a sparkling accent on his arm. She speaks flawless French and Italian, and has a limitless supply of charm when she wishes to dispense it. And she’ll use him. She’ll take, take more. If it was necessary, or if she simply had the whim, she’d toss him to the wolves to see who’d win.”
He finished the whiskey. “You, Lieutenant, are often crude, you are certainly rude, and have very little sense of how to be the wife—in public—of a man in Roarke’s position. And you would do anything, no matter what the personal risk, to keep him from harm. She will never love him. You will never do anything but.”
I felt for Eve in this book because for the first time in his life Roarke has blinders on when it comes to someone he once knew. He doesn’t see Magdalena’s cruelty and manipulation.
“Thanks. Ah…Hey, Feeney, did your wife ever give you any grief about…other women.”
“What other women?”
“Yeah, there’s that. But like, when you were training me, and we partnered up, we worked pretty tight.”
“Wait a minute. You’re a woman?”
It made her laugh and call herself a fool.
Another fave moment:
She looked at him as she put it on. “He’s okay. We’re okay. She’s not going to be a problem for him anymore.”
“Or for you?”
“Or for me.”
“I’m very glad to hear it.”
“I know you are. Appreciate it.”
“I’ve brought that unfortunate vehicle you’ve yet to wreck around in anticipation of your departure. I hope you won’t leave it soiling the front of the house much longer.”
“Kiss my ass, scarecrow.”
“There.” He smiled at her. “We’re back to normal.”
She let out a snorting laugh, then strode out.
On cue, Magdelana spun around, her face full of passion and shock. “Oh, God. Oh…it’s not what it looks like.”
“Bet.” Eve strode in. Actually, Roarke thought, it was more of a swagger. He had a moment to admire it, before Eve rammed her fist in his face. “Fuck me.” His head snapped back, and he tasted blood.
Magdelana cried out, but even the deaf would have caught the suppressed laughter in the sound. “Roarke! Oh, my God, you’re bleeding. Please, let me just—”
“Don’t look now,” Eve said cheerfully. “But he’s not the only one.” She decked Magdelana with a straight-armed jab. “Bitch,” Eve added as Magdelana’s eyes rolled back and she fell, unconscious, to the floor.
Roarke looked down. “Well, now, fuck us all.”
“You’re going to want to get that mess out of my house.” With this, Eve strode out again.
She passed Summerset in the foyer. She assumed the expression on his face was a grin, but couldn’t be absolutely sure.
“You’re going to want to be careful—spreading your mouth like that could split your whole face in half.”
“I thought applauding would be a bit inappropriate.”
She snorted, and kept right on going upstairs.
This is definitely one of the most chilling stories. A ten-year-old sociopath. Terrifying child.
Creation in Death:
I remember this one vaguely.
This is the first time we meet e-geek Callendar. I like her!
Heads up,” she said, boosting her voice over the chatter and clacking. “When Captain Feeney isn’t in the house, and I’m not in the war room, the civilian’s in charge of electronics. Questions on that? Go to him.”
“Lieutenant’s pet,” Callendar said just loud enough for Roarke to hear, and in a mock sulk that made him smile a little.
“I’ll wager ten I hit on the property before you hit on the banks.”
“You’re on, Prime Buns.”
Oh, I’d forgotten about this little bit of funny in the midst of so much drama…
On cue, Belle began to fuss and whimper. Mavis shifted, smoothly unbuttoning the pajama top. “I thought maybe if Trina was finished before—“
“Sure, sure.” Instinctively Eve averted her eyes, grabbed her coffee. “I’ll have her brought back here when she’s done. No problem.”
“Mag. Big relief. So—”
“Oh, well then.” Roarke pushed to his feet as Mavis’s breast popped out and Belle’s eager mouth popped on. “I’ll just…” Go anywhere else.
His reaction had Mavis’s face clearing, and her laughter bubbling. “She wants her breakfast, too. Mostly everyone’s seen my boobies before.”
“And, as I believe I’ve said, they’re absolutely charming. I wonder if I shouldn’t—”
“No, sit.” Giggling now, Mavis picked up the juice, rose, easily balancing the glass and the baby at her breast. “You’ll get used to it before long, but right now, we’ll go on back. Usually we both want a little nap after breakfast. If I find anything on the hair enhancement, the products, I’ll tag you.”
“Do that.”
When they were alone again, Roarke stared down at his plate. “Why do you suppose I chose this morning to want my eggs sunny-side up?”
“They do look like a pair of nice, shiny yellow breasts.” Grinning, Eve plucked up a piece of bacon. “And Mavis has been known to paint hers yellow on occasion.”
“Every time she feeds the baby, I feel so…rude.”
“I thought it was freaked.”
“A bit of that, but more intrusive. It seems so intimate.”
“I’d say we’re both going to have to get over it. We’ve got to get moving. Eat your boobies.”
Feeney and Eve are so cute in this one. I love their relationship.
Seriously awesome ending! This book, at least to date, really shows the mind numbing drudgery that police work can be. Yikes.
YES! I couldn’t remember what book number the Icove murders was, but here it is. Goddess! They follow through the whole rest of the series because of Nadine writing the bestseller book about it, and it becoming a vid.
First time we see Morris and Detective Coltraine… that’s the saddest book when she gets murdered. Morris is messed up for a long time! Funny how I remember some so clearly and others not.
Dammit Peabody kills me
“What kind of name is Amaryllis?” Eve demanded when she and Peabody were back in the car.
“Floral. You’re jealous.”
“I’m what?”
“You and Morris have a thing. Most of us have a little thing for Morris, who is oddly sexy. But the two of you have a special thing, and here comes Southern Belle Barbie getting him worked up.”
“I don’t have a thing for Morris. We’re friendly associates. And her name was Amaryllis, not Barbie.”
“The doll, Dallas. You know, Barbie doll. Jeez, didn’t you ever have dollies?”
“Dolls are like small dead people. I have enough dead people, thanks. But yeah, now I get you. Ammy for short? How can you be a cop with a name like that? Hello, my name is Ammy, and I’ll be arresting you today. Please.”
“It’s a nice little thing you’ve got with Morris.”
“There is no thing, Peabody.”
”Right, like you never thought of doing him on one of the slabs in there.”
When Eve choked on her Pepsi, Peabody shrugged. “Okay, that’s just me, then. Hey look, it stopped raining, which is a big change of subject before I further humiliate myself.”
Eve caught her breath, stared straight ahead. “We’ll never speak of this again.”
“That’d be best.”
Ooh, this is the book where Roarke gives her the kick-ass long, black leather coat. I wonder which book it is where he has it upgraded with inserts for safety?
First sighting of APA Cher Reo. I’d forgotten that the first time they really worked together was on the Icove murders, and that Jr.’s body is the first one Cher’s ever seen outside of pictures, etc.
Aw, Jenkinson is introduced. He, Baxter, Trueheart, and a few more become the core of the homicide detectives throughout the series.
It’s not often Mira and Eve go toe to toe but it’s a doozy scene at the school.
Mira started for the door, paused. “I’m entitled to some degree of upset,” she said. “To my irrational outbursts earlier, to anger and hurt feelings.”
“I’m entitled to expect you to be perfect, because that’s how I see you. So if you go around acting flawed and human like the rest of us lower beings, it’s going to throw me off.”
“That’s so completely unfair. And touching. Do you know there’s no one in this world who can annoy me so much as you, other than Dennis and my own children?”
Eve slid her hands into her pockets. “I guess that’s supposed to be touching, too, but it sounds like a slap.”
A smile whispered around Mira’s lips. “That’s a mother’s trick, and one of my favorites. Good night, Eve.”
This might be the only book in the series, to date, where Eve doesn’t want her suspect(s) caged. These clones have been caged their entire lives. Eve is happy the PA doesn’t want to put them on trial, but they all know what will happen when the Feds and other alphabet agencies get a hold of these women, children, and babies.
Oh goddess. Roarke invited some of his newfound family from Ireland to come for the Thanksgiving holiday. He and Eve are baffled with all of these people and children. 😂
I wonder if Roarke will ever see little Diana again? As of right now, I’ve read through book #54 in the series and I haven’t seen her. Hmm.
“Where’s Diana, and the other two?”
He looked toward the sky, noted the stars were going out. “I couldn’t say.”
“You let them go.”
His eyes were tired, but perfectly clear when they met hers. “Did you intend to do differently?”
She didn’t speak for a moment. “I contacted Feeney to request he shut down the tracker. No need. When the place blew, the homers disengaged. Officially, Diana Rodriguez is dead. Lost in the explosion that took place in the Quiet Birth facilities. There’s no record of the other two minors. There won’t be.”
“And no one exists, officially, without records.”
“There’s technology for you. Avril Icove is missing. I have a deathbed confession that clears her of all involvement with the homicides under my jurisdiction. Even without it, the PA doesn’t intend to charge. It would be an inefficient use of departmental time and funds to attempt to locate her, at this time. Federal authorities may think different.”
“But they won’t find her.”
“Unlikely.”
I guess I’d remembered the ending a little different, but I suppose it would have been impractical for them to have been able to get all the cloned children and babies away. Especially since the police and CPS were there as backup.
One of my favorite books in the series!
Memory in Death:
Somehow I kept thinking this story was earlier in the series. This is the one where Eve’s foster “mother” comes to visit bringing her bio-son and his wife. His wife is one of Trudy’s former “kids” and she’s got a long con going on.
Eve cracks me up with her innate uncomfortableness regarding gifts, friends, parties, etc.
Shit, she thought as she headed downstairs. Was there anything else? Why were there all these people who had to be crossed off her pick-up-something list? Was she actually going to have to start making a list?
If it came to that it might be best to move away altogether and start over.
The best part of this story, IMO, is when Trudy makes the mistake of going to see Roarke in his office to bribe him.
”And Bobby? Why my Bobby’s fretting to see her. He was like a brother to her.”
“Really? How odd then she’s never mentioned him.”
Her smile was indulgent now, and just a little sly. “I think she had just a tiny little crush on him. I expect she doesn’t want you to be jealous.”
His laugh was quick, rich and long. “Please. Now, if you’d like, you can certainly leave your name and address with my administrative assistant. If the lieutenant wants to contact you, she will. Otherwise . . .”
“Now this just won’t do. This won’t do at all.” Trudy sat up straighter, and her tone took on a little lash. “I took care of that girl for over six months, took her into my home out of the goodness of my heart. And believe me when I say she wasn’t easy. I think I deserve more than this.”
“Do you? And what do you think you deserve?”
“I’m compensating you,” he interrupted, “by not getting up, coming over there, and twisting your head off your neck with my bare hands.”
She gasped, theatrically. “You’re threatening me?”
“Indeed, I’m not,” he continued in the same easy tone. “I’m explaining to you how you’re being compensated for walking away from this. I’m telling you what’s not happening to you, and believe me, it’s costing me dearly not to put my hands on you for what you did to my wife when she was defenseless.”
He rose, slowly. There wasn’t a gasp this time, and no theatrics. She simply froze as all the blood drained out of her face. Finally, he decided, she saw what was under his own shell, under the sophistication, the style, the manners money had bought him.
Even a viper hadn’t a prayer against it.
Yep, still the best part of the whole story. Well, that and their holiday celebrations!
There were ladders and tarps and tables and chairs, there were candles and fabrics. The guy in charge of setting up the platform for the orchestra, or band—she wasn’t sure which it was—was arguing with the guy in charge of some of the miles of garland.
She hoped they came to blows. That, at least, would be her territory.
It seemed Roarke had taken her at her word about supervising the ballroom decorations. What had he been thinking?
Someone was always asking her what she thought, what she wanted, if she’d prefer this to that, or the other thing.
One of the crew had actually rushed from the room in tears the third time Eve said she didn’t care.
HA! I’d forgotten about Eve chasing the purse snatcher, Nadine and her camera crew, and the holiday excitement! Hilarious scene.
Halfway down the steps, Nadine risked a broken neck by rushing. “Get on her!” she shouted to her camera. “Stay on her. Look at her go!” When Peabody and McNab whizzed by, Nadine all but danced on the courthouse steps. “Don’t lose them, for God’s sake.”
“I’ve never had so much excitement. Why, that man just shoved me right down on the ground! I’m from a little place called White Springs—just south of Wichita, Kansas. I’ve never had so much excitement.”
It had to be said. “You’re not in Kansas anymore.”
The wonders of this authors dialogue is nothing short of stupendous. It’s truly a HUGE part of why I’ve stayed with this series for so long.
Not my favorite of the series, except for a few places here and there. Good ending.
Born in Death:
HAHAHAHA - this is the one with Mavis’ baby shower!!
“Babies don’t come out with teeth, do they?”
“No. I don’t see how…” Roarke lowered his cup, gave her a baffled look. “Why do you put thoughts like that in my head?”
“They’re in mine, pal, they’re in yours.”
Again, I’m remembering more about Mavis’s baby shower, etc. than I am about the who and the why of the murder.
“It’s perfume. The real thing, not the off-brand or the cheaper eau de whatever. I like to go in and get sprayed with it when I troll the higher-end department stores.”
“You’re the one?”
“The one what?”
“The one person in the known universe who likes to get sprayed by those spritz guerrillas.”
Peabody stiffened her shoulders, lifted her head high. “We are more than one. We are a small, yet sweet-smelling army.”
“We have to do the games.” Peabody had a gleam in her eye that might have come from the bellinis, or the overdose of estrogen.
“Go ahead,” Eve told her.
“Nuh-uh! You have to run them. If I do it, I can’t play. I wanna play.”
“Don’t look at me,” Nadine said when Eve turned to her.
“Oh, hell. Fine, great. I’m on it.” She’d run ops, she ran a squad of detectives. She could handle a hundred women over a bunch of stupid games.
They were insane, Eve discovered within the first fifteen minutes. The room was packed with women who were psychotic and certifiable. Screaming, shouting, laughing like mental patients over the race to decipher each rubric she held up. She wasn’t entirely sure she wouldn’t be forced to subdue a brunette who looked big enough to be carrying triplets.
Mavis having her baby is still one of the best and most hilarious moments in this entire series.
Innocent in Death:
Oh yeah, this is the one where the bitchy (and I’m saying that nicely) ex-flame, Magdalena, of Roarke’s shows up to cause havoc. Bitch.
I’m vaguely remembering this one…one of the kids is the murderer, maybe? I think it’s Rayleen, maybe? Yes, I think it is. She didn’t get the grade she wanted?? Yeah, Ray is psycho, even pushed her little brother down the stairs a few years before out of jealousy.
And when someone said his name, and he glanced toward them, Eve saw something come into his eyes, just a flash of it. A something she’d only seen when he looked at her.
It was gone, shuttered down into polite pleasure. But it had been there. Very slowly, Eve tracked her gaze over, and saw her.
She was stunning, in a bold red dress that managed to be both elegant and sexy. Long legs ended in the glitter of paper-thin silver heels. Her hair was a long, waving stream of delicate blond, clipped at the sides with something small and sparkling. Her eyes were brilliantly green, full of life and excitement that translated to sexual power. Her lips were full, very red and lush against luminous skin.
“I don’t know you, so how can I say? Roarke did mention I wouldn’t like you, and I suppose I’m just contrary enough that I wanted to prove him wrong. So I hoped we could have a drink, and diffuse any potential problems. Especially since he’s going to be helping me with some of my affairs.”
“Funny.” And the fist in her belly went slippery and sick. “You look like the type who can handle her own affairs just fine.”
“Business affairs. We’d both know Roarke has no equal when it comes to financial affairs. Or, let’s be honest, any sort of affair.” She gave a light laugh. “But this is strictly business, I promise. After we had lunch today and he agreed to work with me, it suddenly occurred that you might think it was something other than business. After all, he’s a gorgeous and alluring man, and he and I were…”
“Were would be the operative verb.”
“Yes. Absolutely. You see, I caused him pain a long time ago, I don’t want to be responsible for that again. If things work out as I hope, I’ll have business in New York for some time. I’m hoping we can all be friends.”
She knew bullshit when it was being tossed at her by the shovelful. “You know, Ms. Purcell, I’m at absolute capacity in the friend department. You’ll have to apply elsewhere. As for Roarke and his business, that’s his deal. As for you, let’s get this straight: You don’t look stupid, so I don’t believe you think you’re the first of Roarke’s discarded skirts to swing back this way. You don’t worry me. In fact, you don’t much interest me. So if that’s all?”
Slowly, Magdelana slid off the desk. “The man is just never wrong is he? I don’t like you.”
“Aw.”
She moved to the door, then stopped, leaned on the jamb as she looked over at Eve again. “Just one thing? He didn’t discard me. I discarded him. And since you don’t look stupid either, you know that makes all the difference.”
This is one of my most favorite interactions between Eve and Summerset:
“Couldn’t wait to rub my face in that one. I bet you’re just dancing a jig that Maggie’s in town. Well, you can—”
“On the contrary,” he interrupted with absolute calm. “I couldn’t be less pleased. I’d like a moment of your time.”
“For what?” His jaw tightened, and she saw she’d been wrong.
There were ripples under the calm. “I dislike discussing Roarke this way, and you’re only making it more difficult. However, my concerns leave me, I feel, little choice in the matter.”
She started out, stepped, and made herself turn around, meet Summerset’s eyes. “She’s a manipulator. I get that. She’s also beautiful, polished, sophisticated, smart. Smart enough, I’d bet your skinny ass, to settle happily with what Roarke’s got at his fingertips now. Basically, she’s just the type I’d think you’d do a happy dance if he flipped me for.”
She had to take a breath so her voice would stay steady. “She wouldn’t track blood into the house, she’d know just what dress to wear to the next dinner party. And she wouldn’t forget there was a goddamn dinner party because she was standing over a dead body. So, why tell me all this?”
“She would be a sparkling accent on his arm. She speaks flawless French and Italian, and has a limitless supply of charm when she wishes to dispense it. And she’ll use him. She’ll take, take more. If it was necessary, or if she simply had the whim, she’d toss him to the wolves to see who’d win.”
He finished the whiskey. “You, Lieutenant, are often crude, you are certainly rude, and have very little sense of how to be the wife—in public—of a man in Roarke’s position. And you would do anything, no matter what the personal risk, to keep him from harm. She will never love him. You will never do anything but.”
I felt for Eve in this book because for the first time in his life Roarke has blinders on when it comes to someone he once knew. He doesn’t see Magdalena’s cruelty and manipulation.
“Thanks. Ah…Hey, Feeney, did your wife ever give you any grief about…other women.”
“What other women?”
“Yeah, there’s that. But like, when you were training me, and we partnered up, we worked pretty tight.”
“Wait a minute. You’re a woman?”
It made her laugh and call herself a fool.
Another fave moment:
She looked at him as she put it on. “He’s okay. We’re okay. She’s not going to be a problem for him anymore.”
“Or for you?”
“Or for me.”
“I’m very glad to hear it.”
“I know you are. Appreciate it.”
“I’ve brought that unfortunate vehicle you’ve yet to wreck around in anticipation of your departure. I hope you won’t leave it soiling the front of the house much longer.”
“Kiss my ass, scarecrow.”
“There.” He smiled at her. “We’re back to normal.”
She let out a snorting laugh, then strode out.
On cue, Magdelana spun around, her face full of passion and shock. “Oh, God. Oh…it’s not what it looks like.”
“Bet.” Eve strode in. Actually, Roarke thought, it was more of a swagger. He had a moment to admire it, before Eve rammed her fist in his face. “Fuck me.” His head snapped back, and he tasted blood.
Magdelana cried out, but even the deaf would have caught the suppressed laughter in the sound. “Roarke! Oh, my God, you’re bleeding. Please, let me just—”
“Don’t look now,” Eve said cheerfully. “But he’s not the only one.” She decked Magdelana with a straight-armed jab. “Bitch,” Eve added as Magdelana’s eyes rolled back and she fell, unconscious, to the floor.
Roarke looked down. “Well, now, fuck us all.”
“You’re going to want to get that mess out of my house.” With this, Eve strode out again.
She passed Summerset in the foyer. She assumed the expression on his face was a grin, but couldn’t be absolutely sure.
“You’re going to want to be careful—spreading your mouth like that could split your whole face in half.”
“I thought applauding would be a bit inappropriate.”
She snorted, and kept right on going upstairs.
This is definitely one of the most chilling stories. A ten-year-old sociopath. Terrifying child.
Creation in Death:
I remember this one vaguely.
This is the first time we meet e-geek Callendar. I like her!
Heads up,” she said, boosting her voice over the chatter and clacking. “When Captain Feeney isn’t in the house, and I’m not in the war room, the civilian’s in charge of electronics. Questions on that? Go to him.”
“Lieutenant’s pet,” Callendar said just loud enough for Roarke to hear, and in a mock sulk that made him smile a little.
“I’ll wager ten I hit on the property before you hit on the banks.”
“You’re on, Prime Buns.”
Oh, I’d forgotten about this little bit of funny in the midst of so much drama…
On cue, Belle began to fuss and whimper. Mavis shifted, smoothly unbuttoning the pajama top. “I thought maybe if Trina was finished before—“
“Sure, sure.” Instinctively Eve averted her eyes, grabbed her coffee. “I’ll have her brought back here when she’s done. No problem.”
“Mag. Big relief. So—”
“Oh, well then.” Roarke pushed to his feet as Mavis’s breast popped out and Belle’s eager mouth popped on. “I’ll just…” Go anywhere else.
His reaction had Mavis’s face clearing, and her laughter bubbling. “She wants her breakfast, too. Mostly everyone’s seen my boobies before.”
“And, as I believe I’ve said, they’re absolutely charming. I wonder if I shouldn’t—”
“No, sit.” Giggling now, Mavis picked up the juice, rose, easily balancing the glass and the baby at her breast. “You’ll get used to it before long, but right now, we’ll go on back. Usually we both want a little nap after breakfast. If I find anything on the hair enhancement, the products, I’ll tag you.”
“Do that.”
When they were alone again, Roarke stared down at his plate. “Why do you suppose I chose this morning to want my eggs sunny-side up?”
“They do look like a pair of nice, shiny yellow breasts.” Grinning, Eve plucked up a piece of bacon. “And Mavis has been known to paint hers yellow on occasion.”
“Every time she feeds the baby, I feel so…rude.”
“I thought it was freaked.”
“A bit of that, but more intrusive. It seems so intimate.”
“I’d say we’re both going to have to get over it. We’ve got to get moving. Eat your boobies.”
Feeney and Eve are so cute in this one. I love their relationship.
Seriously awesome ending! This book, at least to date, really shows the mind numbing drudgery that police work can be. Yikes.
This entire review has been hidden because of spoilers.
September 11, 2023
Amazing!
Origin in Death, Book 21 of the In Death series by JD Robb @jdrobbauthor - Eve & Peabody are looking into the death of Dr. Icove, which appears to be a professional kill. While looking into his death, his son is killed in the same manner. Eve wonders why his wife doesn't ask how he died, where, etc. & thinks she must be involved somehow. With more investigation, they figured out that both the senior & junior Dr. Icove were cloning women. Eve, Roarke & Feeney take down the cloning, including the technology. The Icove center is blown to bits. They let the wife including her clones get away with some of the children they rescued.
Memory in Death, Book 22 - Eve & Peabody clear a case & while filing it away, Eve is interrupted by Trudy, a prior foster mom, who shows up to see her. Trudy goes to see Roarke to try to blackmail him about Eve to keep her past a secret. Oops! 🤦🏼♀️ Even & Roarke go to her hotel a couple of days later so Eve can tell her it's time to go home & find her murdered. Eve & Peabody investigate & they have no leads. Eve thinks it's the daughter-in-law in her gut but nothing is clicking for her. She keeps digging into the DIL & finally realizes she was a prior foster kid or Trudy’s that had some face work done & was playing a part. She solves the case.
Born In Death, Book 23 - Eve & Peabody get called put to look into the murder of an accountant & they find her accountant fiance dead when they go to notify him. Eve is traumatized by shopping for Mavis’s baby shower gift, especially after she & Roarke go to a birth coaching class. Eve knows that the murders at related to their jobs. A friend of Mavis’s is missing & Mavis begs Eve to look into it & Eve agrees to keep Mavis calm. Eve figures out who killed the 2 accountants, & finds & rescues Mavis’s friend. Mavis has her baby 🥰🥰🥰
Innocent in Death, Book 24 — Eve & Peabody are investigating the poisoning of an elementary school teacher. While at a dinner with Roarke, an old flame of his Magdalena, shows up & Eve see him look at her the way he looks at Eve. She asks him who she is, & Roarke tells her a prior lover, more than 12 years in the past. Eve pushes it down but wonders. Eve is trying to figure out who killed the teacher while dealing with her jealousy over Magdalena. Another teacher is killed. Eve & Peabody continue to investigate. Eve & Roarke work through Eve’s jealousy & Roarke’s feelings for what Magdalena was to him but has no feelings for her now other then irritation. Eve solves the case. Wow! 😳
Creation In Death, Book 25 - of the In Death series by JD Robb @jdrobbauthor - Eve is called to investigate the murder of a woman whom she recognizes as the pattern of a serial killer. They determine that there is a link … Roarke. Another woman is taken. Then Dr. Mira thinks it's not Roarke, but Eve is the link. Another woman is taken & the 2nd woman is found murdered. They get lucky & stumble on a witness, Trina (who is Mavis & Eve’s stylist). Trina gives a description & they start to track him down. Eve deliberately lets herself be a target & she gets a call to go to a house & she takes the murderer down & saves the last woman. She gets a full confession.
Origin in Death, Book 21 of the In Death series by JD Robb @jdrobbauthor - Eve & Peabody are looking into the death of Dr. Icove, which appears to be a professional kill. While looking into his death, his son is killed in the same manner. Eve wonders why his wife doesn't ask how he died, where, etc. & thinks she must be involved somehow. With more investigation, they figured out that both the senior & junior Dr. Icove were cloning women. Eve, Roarke & Feeney take down the cloning, including the technology. The Icove center is blown to bits. They let the wife including her clones get away with some of the children they rescued.
Memory in Death, Book 22 - Eve & Peabody clear a case & while filing it away, Eve is interrupted by Trudy, a prior foster mom, who shows up to see her. Trudy goes to see Roarke to try to blackmail him about Eve to keep her past a secret. Oops! 🤦🏼♀️ Even & Roarke go to her hotel a couple of days later so Eve can tell her it's time to go home & find her murdered. Eve & Peabody investigate & they have no leads. Eve thinks it's the daughter-in-law in her gut but nothing is clicking for her. She keeps digging into the DIL & finally realizes she was a prior foster kid or Trudy’s that had some face work done & was playing a part. She solves the case.
Born In Death, Book 23 - Eve & Peabody get called put to look into the murder of an accountant & they find her accountant fiance dead when they go to notify him. Eve is traumatized by shopping for Mavis’s baby shower gift, especially after she & Roarke go to a birth coaching class. Eve knows that the murders at related to their jobs. A friend of Mavis’s is missing & Mavis begs Eve to look into it & Eve agrees to keep Mavis calm. Eve figures out who killed the 2 accountants, & finds & rescues Mavis’s friend. Mavis has her baby 🥰🥰🥰
Innocent in Death, Book 24 — Eve & Peabody are investigating the poisoning of an elementary school teacher. While at a dinner with Roarke, an old flame of his Magdalena, shows up & Eve see him look at her the way he looks at Eve. She asks him who she is, & Roarke tells her a prior lover, more than 12 years in the past. Eve pushes it down but wonders. Eve is trying to figure out who killed the teacher while dealing with her jealousy over Magdalena. Another teacher is killed. Eve & Peabody continue to investigate. Eve & Roarke work through Eve’s jealousy & Roarke’s feelings for what Magdalena was to him but has no feelings for her now other then irritation. Eve solves the case. Wow! 😳
Creation In Death, Book 25 - of the In Death series by JD Robb @jdrobbauthor - Eve is called to investigate the murder of a woman whom she recognizes as the pattern of a serial killer. They determine that there is a link … Roarke. Another woman is taken. Then Dr. Mira thinks it's not Roarke, but Eve is the link. Another woman is taken & the 2nd woman is found murdered. They get lucky & stumble on a witness, Trina (who is Mavis & Eve’s stylist). Trina gives a description & they start to track him down. Eve deliberately lets herself be a target & she gets a call to go to a house & she takes the murderer down & saves the last woman. She gets a full confession.
August 18, 2019
ORIGIN IN DEATH
A seriously intense and shocking example of one mans ego manifesting itself in a way that carries repercussions that never stopped echoing for Eve and Roarke.
MEMORY IN DEATH
Read in 2013. 375 pages of Eve and Roarke that kept my attention on every one of them.
BORN IN DEATH
Death and New Life are intertwined within these pages of the 23rd book in a series I cannot stop reading, or enjoying with each new installment that comes through my eager hands.
Eve and Roarke of course shine brightly but so do a multitude of their friends and miracle of miracles even the rigid Summerset cracks a smile and even manages a kind word to Eve.
INNOCENT IN DEATH
This time the evil entity that performs murders with cunning ease and much forethought comes in the most unexpected form, and is that much more chilling for it as well.
The story was very detailed, very exact in it’s information and will cause nightmares for parents and non-parents alike!
Eve Dallas and Roarke also face a mini-crisis and come out together very much the stronger for it as I expected they would from my favorite couple.
CREATION IN DEATH
The emotions between the main duo of Eve and Roarke always draw the reader into their world fully as well as completely on a personal level, the pair are just that easy to feel empathy with.
This time however there is an even greater dynamic going on with Lieutenant Dallas and her fellow squad members. A serial murderer is back that eluded everyone nine years prior when she worked partners with Captain Feeney, who was also her mentor/teacher, only now Eve is primary with Feeney as her backup as head of the NYSPD EED division.
The man whose infamy lives on all these years later has honed his craft and as the NYSPD home in on him thanks to not only their best efforts, combined friends, also those of civilian consult and computer tech extraordinaire Roarke, his reign of death and terror is finally put to an end.
This is without a doubt at this time my favorite compilation of the series and one of the all time worst criminal masterminds Eve has crossed paths with as well as one of the more intelligent in some twisted ways.
A seriously intense and shocking example of one mans ego manifesting itself in a way that carries repercussions that never stopped echoing for Eve and Roarke.
MEMORY IN DEATH
Read in 2013. 375 pages of Eve and Roarke that kept my attention on every one of them.
BORN IN DEATH
Death and New Life are intertwined within these pages of the 23rd book in a series I cannot stop reading, or enjoying with each new installment that comes through my eager hands.
Eve and Roarke of course shine brightly but so do a multitude of their friends and miracle of miracles even the rigid Summerset cracks a smile and even manages a kind word to Eve.
INNOCENT IN DEATH
This time the evil entity that performs murders with cunning ease and much forethought comes in the most unexpected form, and is that much more chilling for it as well.
The story was very detailed, very exact in it’s information and will cause nightmares for parents and non-parents alike!
Eve Dallas and Roarke also face a mini-crisis and come out together very much the stronger for it as I expected they would from my favorite couple.
CREATION IN DEATH
The emotions between the main duo of Eve and Roarke always draw the reader into their world fully as well as completely on a personal level, the pair are just that easy to feel empathy with.
This time however there is an even greater dynamic going on with Lieutenant Dallas and her fellow squad members. A serial murderer is back that eluded everyone nine years prior when she worked partners with Captain Feeney, who was also her mentor/teacher, only now Eve is primary with Feeney as her backup as head of the NYSPD EED division.
The man whose infamy lives on all these years later has honed his craft and as the NYSPD home in on him thanks to not only their best efforts, combined friends, also those of civilian consult and computer tech extraordinaire Roarke, his reign of death and terror is finally put to an end.
This is without a doubt at this time my favorite compilation of the series and one of the all time worst criminal masterminds Eve has crossed paths with as well as one of the more intelligent in some twisted ways.
July 13, 2018
This book I will use for the last book, "Creation in Death" as I individually added each of the other books as I read them. I love all of the In Death books, and this one was amazing. Maybe because it was based on a return serial killer, one that slipped by Eve and Feeney 9 years ago (they always solve the crimes). But it also showed a different dynamic between all of the key characters. Everybody is working round the clock to find the missing girls, and to finally put the serial killer in a cage. The action was tense and you felt the fatigue of Eve and her team as well as the anger and determination as they raced the clock. The killer was finally found and it struck everyone how ordinary he looked, how he looked mild and not anyone you would pay much mind to. The most scary kind because anyone would be easily duped by him. How often have we seen someone we would never pay mind to or think they were harmless. That's what stuck with me most.
August 17, 2019
The In Death series is “mags” as Mavis would say. The characters are so well written and consistent, but evolving, with surprises slipped in. The world building never disappoints, I can “see” Dallas’ office, Summerset’s scarecrow visage, Roake’s irish temper (both ice cold and boiling).
I laugh and cry with the characters and search for clues in each novel. Each book is an extension of the previous, yet able to be read as a standalone. This is the third time I’m working through the series: paperback, hardback large print, and now ebook online where I can triple the font size for my tired eyes. I’m sure in a few years, I’ll start the series for the fourth time and will still see new clues, new connections.
I “borrowed” this Kindle ebook from Lending2go.overdrive via my local library.
I laugh and cry with the characters and search for clues in each novel. Each book is an extension of the previous, yet able to be read as a standalone. This is the third time I’m working through the series: paperback, hardback large print, and now ebook online where I can triple the font size for my tired eyes. I’m sure in a few years, I’ll start the series for the fourth time and will still see new clues, new connections.
I “borrowed” this Kindle ebook from Lending2go.overdrive via my local library.
July 12, 2021
Brilliant series of books. Every mystery different, every story completes itself but continues the saga of Dallas, Roarke, Mavis, Dr. Mira, Feeney, Peabody and McNab. The ongoing lives of the main characters ties it all together but each mystery is complete and satisfying in itself.
This collection contains my favorites because each story is so unique and so different than any plots I have encountered before. I typically get about two thirds of the way through each story before I have any idea of how Dallas is going to save the victim or herself. Even then I find myself wanting to rush to be sure everyone is safe and will be healthy again.
This collection contains my favorites because each story is so unique and so different than any plots I have encountered before. I typically get about two thirds of the way through each story before I have any idea of how Dallas is going to save the victim or herself. Even then I find myself wanting to rush to be sure everyone is safe and will be healthy again.
June 30, 2021
One of the best cop/murder mysteries series ever
I don't even know where to begin with the nail biters this series causes. The murders are grisly. However, the humor naked me laugh out loud. Peabody and her worrying about her weight and talking about sex with McNab and Dallas's responses are hilarious. The secondary character's personalities make this series even better. I like Truehart raising his hand to ask questions or make statements during briefings. This is a must read if you like murder mysteries and have a strong stomach for graphic murders.
I don't even know where to begin with the nail biters this series causes. The murders are grisly. However, the humor naked me laugh out loud. Peabody and her worrying about her weight and talking about sex with McNab and Dallas's responses are hilarious. The secondary character's personalities make this series even better. I like Truehart raising his hand to ask questions or make statements during briefings. This is a must read if you like murder mysteries and have a strong stomach for graphic murders.
January 26, 2019
I'm a big fan of this series, having been introduced through a novella in an anthology, so I decided to go start with number one and read through the entire series - but, unfortunately, they are no longer available at my public library, EXCEPT in these collections - thank heavens!
The only complaint I have is that a library download is timed, so you have to pretty much shake a leg and read back to back... not exactly a problem because the books are addictive. ., I am hopelessly hooked.
The only complaint I have is that a library download is timed, so you have to pretty much shake a leg and read back to back... not exactly a problem because the books are addictive. ., I am hopelessly hooked.
October 17, 2019
Roberts hit the stratosphere again!
As always, the “death series” pulls you into the story and captures your heart & mind together. The stars are numerous but the interaction of Eve & Roarke, as well as Peabody, MacNab,Feeney & the rest of the cast of characters is so very well done it makes every story different, but familiar. This is my absolute favorite series!! Thank you for the enjoyable journey!
As always, the “death series” pulls you into the story and captures your heart & mind together. The stars are numerous but the interaction of Eve & Roarke, as well as Peabody, MacNab,Feeney & the rest of the cast of characters is so very well done it makes every story different, but familiar. This is my absolute favorite series!! Thank you for the enjoyable journey!
July 22, 2020
Great series
I really enjoyed all of them, but I couldn't put Creation on Death down. The blurbs for each are sufficient. Rourke and Eve have a hiccup in Innocent in Death, but they are now stronger for it. I love their relationship, it's one of the main reasons I read this series. It adds so much to the story, even murderer mysteries.
I really enjoyed all of them, but I couldn't put Creation on Death down. The blurbs for each are sufficient. Rourke and Eve have a hiccup in Innocent in Death, but they are now stronger for it. I love their relationship, it's one of the main reasons I read this series. It adds so much to the story, even murderer mysteries.
December 24, 2021
Binging In Death Series
I’m binging the In Death Series. It’s my second or third time through them over the years. So nice to read them in sequence without waiting 6 months for the next one to be published is a just lovely new look at old friends. To see the growth and progress in all the relationships, well, I love these characters and the stories 👏👏👏👏
I’m binging the In Death Series. It’s my second or third time through them over the years. So nice to read them in sequence without waiting 6 months for the next one to be published is a just lovely new look at old friends. To see the growth and progress in all the relationships, well, I love these characters and the stories 👏👏👏👏
June 14, 2018
Dare you to try and it down
All your favorite characters in this excellent series of futuristic murder mystery set in NYC. Find nice place to read, turn off the tv, and the cell phones and enjoy. Adult readers due sexual and violent content.
All your favorite characters in this excellent series of futuristic murder mystery set in NYC. Find nice place to read, turn off the tv, and the cell phones and enjoy. Adult readers due sexual and violent content.
June 19, 2018
As always, stupendously good.
I've read most of the In Death books and found them to be well-written, with intriguing storylines and well-developed characters. Always an enjoyable read.
I've read most of the In Death books and found them to be well-written, with intriguing storylines and well-developed characters. Always an enjoyable read.
October 18, 2018
As always an extremely good read
I am always captivated by her books. I sometimes (often) late for work because I can't put it down. Her books are so worth the money I read 3 to 5 of them a week. Very very worth it!
I am always captivated by her books. I sometimes (often) late for work because I can't put it down. Her books are so worth the money I read 3 to 5 of them a week. Very very worth it!
May 13, 2019
Good...interesting series...we should all be so lucky to find a Rourke.
Ok...i need more words to end this review on my phone...not happy being required to write so many words....done 😔
Ok...i need more words to end this review on my phone...not happy being required to write so many words....done 😔
February 16, 2020
Better late than sorry . . .
After all these years of enjoying Nora Roberts’ work, I finally decided to read the “Eve Dallas/Roarke/In Death” series. I am reading them consecutively, one after the other (disabled/retired). Truly enjoying each and every one!
After all these years of enjoying Nora Roberts’ work, I finally decided to read the “Eve Dallas/Roarke/In Death” series. I am reading them consecutively, one after the other (disabled/retired). Truly enjoying each and every one!
January 26, 2023
Loved The Stories
I'm enthralled with Robb s writing . Each story is excellent and hard to put down. I like the continuity of characters and how she leads us on a different mystery. She is a favorite author who I enjoy being in my life.
I'm enthralled with Robb s writing . Each story is excellent and hard to put down. I like the continuity of characters and how she leads us on a different mystery. She is a favorite author who I enjoy being in my life.
May 14, 2023
all 5 books were page turners
All 5 books were great reads. Each story unfolded into excellent plots that kept me reading for hours. I love this series and its fun characters. I highly recommend any book in this series as all have been absolutely great!
All 5 books were great reads. Each story unfolded into excellent plots that kept me reading for hours. I love this series and its fun characters. I highly recommend any book in this series as all have been absolutely great!
November 6, 2023
As always...an absolute treat!
J. D. Robb never fails to keep the adrenaline up while adding romance and humor to her art of murder. I can't get enough of Eve Dallas, Roarke, Peabody, McNab, Feeney and the rest. I'd love nothing more than to see 'In Death' made into a TV series!
J. D. Robb never fails to keep the adrenaline up while adding romance and humor to her art of murder. I can't get enough of Eve Dallas, Roarke, Peabody, McNab, Feeney and the rest. I'd love nothing more than to see 'In Death' made into a TV series!
January 23, 2024
Good book
You people should just read this novel yourselves and write your own review on this novel. I really enjoyed reading this novel very much and also this author too. Shelley Ma
You people should just read this novel yourselves and write your own review on this novel. I really enjoyed reading this novel very much and also this author too. Shelley Ma
October 3, 2024
Better and better!
Each book in the series builds on the main characters as Eve and her team solve some horrendous murders. Creation in death was intense as it built towards Eve's capture by a madman.
Each book in the series builds on the main characters as Eve and her team solve some horrendous murders. Creation in death was intense as it built towards Eve's capture by a madman.
July 3, 2017
Great reads
The series is awesome no matter how many times I read them. Eve and Rourke are my heroes. Can't wait for the next one.
The series is awesome no matter how many times I read them. Eve and Rourke are my heroes. Can't wait for the next one.
October 2, 2017
5 stars - Romantic Suspense/Futuristic/Mystery/Crime/Romantic Thriller
January 23, 2018
I love being in this world. Phenomenal characters
February 25, 2018
Amazing books.
Great story plots. Can’t get enough of Eve and Roake! These morder crime stories are so involved and the characters are so engaging I love these books
Great story plots. Can’t get enough of Eve and Roake! These morder crime stories are so involved and the characters are so engaging I love these books
July 31, 2018
Oh splendid, just delightful!
There may have been just a hint of sarcasm there. A hint.
There may have been just a hint of sarcasm there. A hint.
October 22, 2018
Loved it
JD Robb Has done it again with this collection of five books.
Murder, mystery, crazy characters, fantastic story lines. Definitely a series to read and reread over again
JD Robb Has done it again with this collection of five books.
Murder, mystery, crazy characters, fantastic story lines. Definitely a series to read and reread over again
April 13, 2019
This is such a great boxset!
This is such a great box set. Five great stores! Well worth the money! You can never have too many In Death books!
This is such a great box set. Five great stores! Well worth the money! You can never have too many In Death books!
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