Born in death

Format:

Book (large print)

Title:

Born in death

Author:

Robb, J. D., 1950-

ISBN:

9780786285389

Publication Information:

Waterville, Me. : Thorndike Press, 2007.

Physical Description:

527 pages (large print) ; 23 cm.

Series title(s):

Thorndike Press large print core series.

Summary:

With help from her husband, Roarke, Lt. Eve Dallas investigates a double murder, a tax evasion and money laundering scheme in a high profile accounting firm, a missing person, and a mysterious death while planning a baby shower for her friend, Mavis.

Personal Subject:

Dallas, Eve (Fictitious character)-Fiction.

Dallas, Eve (Fictitious character) (OCoLC)fst00887212

Subject(s):

Police -- New York (State) -- New York -- Fiction.

Missing persons -- Fiction.

Pregnant women -- Fiction.

Policewomen -- Fiction.

Large type books.

Police.

New York (N.Y.) -- Fiction.

Geographic Term:

New York (N.Y.) -- Fiction.

New York (State) -- New York.

Genre:

Large type books.

Detective and mystery fiction.

Fiction.

Mystery fiction.

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A New York Times Bestselling Author -- Eve has a double homicide to solve when two young lovers are killed. It doesn't leave a lot of time to put together a baby shower for her buddy Mavis. Now Mavis needs another favor. Tandy, one of the moms-to-be in Mavis's birthing class, didn't show up for the shower. Tandy has few friends in New York, and no family - and she was really looking forward to the party. Mavis feels that something terrible has happened to Tandy, and she wants Eve to track her down. Simultaneous Publication with G. P. Putnam's Standard Print Edition.

Author Notes

Nora Roberts was born in Silver Spring, Maryland on October 10, 1950. Her first book, Irish Thoroughbred, was published in 1981. Since then, she has written more than 150 novels. She writes romances under her own name including Montana Sky, Time and Again, Blue Smoke, Carolina Moon, The Search, Chasing Fire, and The Witness. She writes crime novels under the pseudonym of J. D. Robb including the In Death series. She received the Romance Writers of America Lifetime Achievement Award and has been inducted into their Hall of Fame. In 2015, she won a RITA Award in the Romantic Suspense category with her title Concealed in Death.

(Bowker Author Biography)

Reviews (3)

Publisher's Weekly Review

Set in New York City in 2060, bestseller Roberts's latest police thriller under her Robb pseudonym in her Lt. Eve Dallas series (Naked in Death, etc.) offers her usual engaging characters. Dallas's investigation of the brutal murders of Natalie Copperfield, a 26-year-old accountant, and Copperfield's boyfriend becomes entangled with the search for Tandy Willowby, a pregnant friend who mysteriously vanishes shortly before her due date. Dallas discovers that Copperfield had stumbled on some white-collar fraud at her high-profile accounting firm, while Willowby's disappearance may be part of a series of abductions. Predictably, the two cases converge, and the mystery's solution becomes obvious. Newcomers, who may be dismayed at how little things will have changed in more than 50 years, would do better to start with earlier books in this near-future suspense series. (Nov.) (c) Copyright PWxyz, LLC. All rights reserved

Kirkus Review

Futuristic detective Lt. Eve Dallas (Memory in Death, Jan. 2006, etc.) won't have to face the worst fate imaginable--coaching her old friend Mavis Freestone through childbirth--till she's wrapped up a pair of less harrowing cases. Convinced something's wrong with the books of her firm, accountant Natalie Copperfield has told her fiancé Bick Byson, a money manager at SMK. The sad result: Hours after Natalie is tortured and strangled at her apartment, so is Bick, clearly by the same hand. Who's behind the trouble that killed the lovebird whistleblowers? All three partners in the firm, Jacob Sloan, Carl Myers and Robert Kraus, expressing obligatory indignation, offer gold-plated alibis. Founder Sloan spent the evening with his namesake grandson and Jake's girlfriend. His son Randall, Jake's father, was with cosmetics queens Sasha Zinka and Lola Warfield. Myers was with top-drawer bootmakers Karl and Elise Helbringer. And Kraus, a partner for a mere decade, was with pharmaceuticals widow Madeline Bullock, of the Bullock Foundation, and her son Winfield Chase. The alibi witnesses form such a tight interlocking directorate with SMK, Eve muses, that it would be both convenient and logical if the killer came from their ranks. Before she can pursue her hunch, however, she has to deal with two complications: Her boss heats up her domestic life by warning her of the dire consequences should any of SMK's records fall into the hands of Eve's husband, megabucks financier Roarke; and Tandy Willowby, a British friend of Mavis's who's equally heavy with child, doesn't turn up for Mavis's baby shower, an event she'd never miss. Could Tandy's disappearance possibly be connected to the double murder over at SMK? Sex, childbirth, cyborg servants, a dollop of fast-moving mystery and a fraud so complex that Eve will need Roarke to get to the bottom of it. The biggest pleasure, though, is watching Eve, an obvious charm-school dropout, get in suspects' faces. Copyright ©Kirkus Reviews, used with permission.

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