The grizzly crime scene is a locked gaming room with no
evidence of forced entry; the victim decapitated by a
weapon that can't be located. It's one of the most baffling
murder cases Lt. Eve Dallas and her highly trained band of
crime busters has ever encountered.
The brilliant Bart Minnock was one of the four founders of
a gaming company that's on the cutting edge of the industry
and set to launch a new virtual fantasy game unlike
anything else -- the game Bart was testing when he was
killed. Even Roarke, Eve's husband, was so impressed with
Bart that he gave him advice about starting up the new
business. Now he'll help in any way he can to bring Bart's
killer to justice -- if the detectives can just figure out
how the next to impossible was accomplished.
This unique and puzzling case takes many twists and turns
on its way to completion, and no one does this type of
investigation better than the intrepid Eve Dallas and her
many talented associates within (and outside of) the police
department. FANTASY IN DEATH is another fast-paced,
intriguing suspense written by one of the best in the
industry.
In the latest novel from #1 New York
Times-bestselling author J.D. Robb, it is game over for
the criminals pursued by NYPSD Lieutenant Eve Dallas.
Bart Minnock, founder of the computer-gaming giant
U-Play, enters his private playroom, and eagerly can't wait
to lose himself in an imaginary world, to play the role of a
sword-wielding warrior king, in his company's latest
top-secret project, Fantastical.
The next morning, he is found in the same locked room, in a
pool of blood, his head separated from his body. It is the
most puzzling case Eve Dallas has ever faced, and it is not
a game. . . .
NYPSD Lieutenant Eve Dallas is having as much trouble
figuring out how Bart Minnock was murdered as who did the
murdering. The victim's girlfriend seems sincerely
grief-stricken, and his quirky-but-brilliant partners at
U-Play appear equally shocked. No one seemed to have a
problem with the enthusiastic, high-spirited millionaire.
Of course, success can attract jealousy, and gaming, like
any business, has its fierce rivalries and dirty tricks-as
Eve's husband, Roarke, one of U- Play's competitors, knows
well. But Minnock was not naive, and quite capable of
fighting back in the real world as well as the virtual one.
Eve and her team are about to enter the next level of police
work, in a world where fantasy is the ultimate seduction-and
the price of defeat is death. . . .
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