"futuristic police procedural"
In the year 2059, NYPSD Lieutenant Eve Dallas is called to
the scene of a particularly brutal homicide in which the
dead woman was bound, tortured and killed. The victim,
Natalie Copperfield, worked as an accountant at the firm
of Sloan, Myers and Kraus as does her fiancée Byson. When
Eve goes to his abode to question him she finds him
murdered in an almost an identical manner to that of
Natalie. Eve believes the same person killed bottle of them and
when she listens to recordings on their links she learns
that Natalie and Byson discovered something irregular at
their firm and were investigating it. As Eve investigates
the accounting firm; her best friend Mavis, who is about
to give birth, wants her to find her friend Tandy who is
also about to go into labor. With the help of her sexy
husband Roarke, a billionaire many times over, Eve finds
the two cases are linked; if she finds the missing woman,
she will also find the killer. J.D. Robb is a fantastic writer of futuristic police
procedurals. Her characters have changed and grown over
the course of this series and in this latest installment,
Eve and Roarke have to overcome their own fears to help a
good friend. The mystery is so well crafted that readers
will not know who the killer is until the extraordinary
climax occurs. BORN IN DEATH is filled with loads of
action and an insightful glimpse of the protagonists'
private lives. Ms. Robb has written another bestseller. Harriet Klausner
Reviewed by Harriet Klausner
Posted October 31, 2006
Lt. Eve Dallas struggles with the end—and the
beginning—of life, in the #1 New York Times-bestselling
series set in 2060 New York City.
SummaryEve Dallas has a grisly double homicide to solve when two
young lovers—both employees of the same prestigious
accounting firm—are brutally killed on the same night.
It doesn't leave Eve a lot of leftover time to put together
a baby shower for her buddy Mavis, but that's supposedly
what friends are for.
Now Mavis needs another favor. Tandy Willowby, one of the
moms-to-be in Mavis's birthing class, didn't show up for the
shower. A recent emigrant from London, Tandy has few friends
in New York, and no family—and she was really looking
forward to the party. And when Eve enters Tandy's apartment
and finds a gift for Mavis's shower wrapped and ready on the
table—and a packed bag for the hospital still on the
floor next to it—tingling runs up and down her spine.
Normally, such a case would be turned over to Missing
Persons. But Mavis wants no one else on the job but
Eve—and Eve can't say no. She'll have to track Tandy
down while simultaneously unearthing the deals and
double-crosses hidden in the files of some of the city's
richest and most secretive citizens, in a race against this
particularly vicious killer. Luckily, her multimillionaire
husband Roarke's expertise comes in handy with the number
crunching. But as he mines the crucial data that will break
the case wide open, Eve faces an all too real danger in the
world of flesh and blood.
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