Roarke:] “This door opened so hard on the heels of the last investigation. It’s hardly a wonder you’re scraped raw.” One of my all-time favorite authors hitting a golden moment in one of my all-time favorite series. J.D. Robb never disappoints!” Lisa Gardner Burglary and rape were the goals. The murder might have been incidental or a bonus. The perp likes violence. Echoes in Death, the chilling new suspense novel from #1 New York Times bestselling author J.D. Robb is the perfect entry point into the compelling In Death police procedural series featuring Lieutenant Eve Dallas. Input from the SVU detectives on the similar crimes. Clearly the same perp: the method, the violence, the missing items.

She stepped out, started running a facial recognition with the photo she’d taken in the car. Might not work, she knew, considering the battering that face had taken. She works from home, looking at financials and identifying potential future targets from the guest list of a gala that all three victim-couples attended last year because that's where she thinks the perp is fishing. Time to hope for a nice, straight murder. Greedy bastard shoves business partner out the window. Brother stabs brother over the last bag of soy chips. Spouse bludgeons spouse over sidepiece. You know, the fun stuff.” – Eve Dallas, Echoes in Death [1]Dallas and McNab trace the link that sent the message, but it is destroyed in a recycler just minutes before they get there. Dallas is suspicious of the timing.

Description: Innocent in Death is one of the best-rated, most read, and most-reviewed J.D. Robb In Death books, and an incredibly intriguing one. We learn how tough and dedicated Eve is – even when facing heartbreak, she puts her feelings aside and does what she does best. Del held up a hand to stop Eve as he leaned over Daphne. “You’re okay. You’re in the hospital. Nobody’s going to hurt you. You’re safe now.” So much evidence for the lab and E-Division, including audio and visual recordings from cameras he had planted in the houses of his victims and future victims. Synopsis: “It is the year 2058, and technology now completely rules the world. But New York City Detective Eve Dallas knows that the irresistible impulses of the human heart are still ruled by just one thing: passion. No, never met her. But I know her husband. Everybody in this hospital knows Anthony Strazza. Jesus. She’s Strazza’s wife?”Morning briefing at the home office with APA Reo, Peabody, McNab, Baxter, Trueheart, Olsen, Tredway, and Mira. Dallas goes to talk to Daphne Strazza, with Mira and Roarke along for Daphne's sake. Daphne's sister Tish is also there. They know, from Kyle's recordings, that Anthony Strazza habitually imprisoned, abused, battered, and raped his wife, with threats to hurt her family if she told. Her husband also tried to kill her after Kyle's assault, and she killed him in self-defense. No charges will be filed.

Someone in the house.” She whispered it, like a secret. “Not a guest [at their earlier dinner party]. Not. Waiting. A devil, it’s a devil! His face is a devil. My husband … He fell. He fell and the devil laughed. I don’t know. I don’t know. Please. I don’t know.” Unfortunately, they didn’t get away fast enough. Now Dorian is injured, terrified, and wandering the streets of New York, and Mina lies dead near the waterfront while Lt. Eve Dallas looks over the scene. At the end of the day, Eve goes home. She takes a second to appreciate the newly redecorated bedroom before collapsing into sleep.Several of the women remember being harassed by a man, including a Phantom of the Opera, at various charity functions. Other woman say that underwear disappeared from their bedrooms.

She should just lie down, lie down and sleep. Lie down and just go away. Surely someone would come tell her where to go next, what to do next. An angel. Or a devil.Snow is falling heavily, with a blizzard forecast, so Dallas sends everyone home, including herself with Roarke. She can’t have been wandering around in that state very long. Not only because it’s barely into the single digits, but someone would have seen her.” Yeah. Time to hope for a nice, straight murder. Greedy bastard shoves business partner out the window. Brother stabs brother over the last bag of soy chips. Spouse bludgeons spouse over sidepiece. You know, the fun stuff.” [8] I need her prints. Not all her blood,” Eve reminded him before he could object. “Someone else might be out there in the same condition as she is. I ID her, maybe it leads us to saving another life tonight.”