Purity in death

Format:

Book (large print)

Title:

Purity in death

Author:

Robb, J. D., 1950-

ISBN:

9780739429396

9781410416452

Edition:

Doubleday large print home library ed.

Publication Information:

New York : Berkley Books, 2002.

Physical Description:

580 pages (large print) ; 22 cm

Series title(s):

In death.

General Note:

"This large print edition, prepared especially for Doubleday Large Print Home Library, contains the complete, unabridged text of the original publisher's edition"--Title page verso

Summary:

Louie Cogburn had spent three days holed up in his apartment, staring at his computer screen. His pounding headache was unbearable like spikes drilling into his brain, and it was getting worse. Finally, when someone knocked at his door, Louie picked up a baseball bat, opened the door, and started swinging. His neighbor called the police department. The first cop on the scene fired his stunner twice and Louie died instantly. Detective Eve Dallas has taken over the investigation, but there's nothing to explain the man's sudden rage or death. The only clue is a bizarre message left on his computer screen : Absolute Purity Achieved.

Personal Subject:

Dallas, Eve (Fictitious character)-Fiction.

Dallas, Eve (Fictitious character) (OCoLC)fst00887212

Subject(s):

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

Policewomen -- Fiction.

Large type books.

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.

Detective and mystery stories.

Holds:

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Louie Cogburn had spent three days staring at his computer screen. It felt like spikes were drilling into his brain. Finally, when someone knocked at his door, Louie opened it and started swinging a baseball bat. The first cop on the scene fired his stunner twice, and Louie died instantly. Detective Eve Dallas is on the case, but the only clue to the man's sudden rage or death is a bizarre message on his computer screen: Absolute Purity Achieved.

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)

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 200 novels. She writes romances under her own name including Montana Sky, Blue Smoke, Carolina Moon, The Search, Chasing Fire, The Witness, The Perfect Hope, Inner Harbor, Dark Witch, Shadow Spell, The Collector, The Villa, The Liar, The Obsession, and Shelter in Place. She writes crime novels under the pseudonym of J. D. Robb including the In Death series. She has been given the Romance Writers of America Lifetime Achievement Award and has been inducted into their Hall of Fame.

(Bowker Author Biography)

Reviews (1)

Publisher's Weekly Review

"A sick computer can and does infect other computers, but not its operator," claims Roarke, dreamboat husband of New York's hotshot futuristic cop, Lieutenant Eve Dallas, in the 15th installment in Robb's `Death' series (after Reunion in Death). Roarke's theory is put to the test when pedophiles and drug dealers begin dying from a computer-generated virus that literally blows the mind of its victims. It doesn't take long for Eve to figure out that a vigilante terrorist organization with superior tech knowledge is meting out its own form of justice the group even leaves the message "absolute purity achieved" on victims' computer screens. Pinpointing the group is more of a challenge. Suspects could be anyone from members of the justice system to formerly abused children, the latter of which strikes a personal and painful nerve in Eve, who was abused as a child. Readers familiar with Eve's history and the sea of characters brought over from her previous books will be more comfortable than first- timers attempting to wade through this sluggish installment. Despite Robb's smooth-as-glass prose, her latest isn't likely to win new converts to the series. (Sept.) (c) Copyright PWxyz, LLC. All rights reserved