Homicide cop Eve Dallas is on the job when a new friend of her best pal Mavis goes missing, and Eve agrees to head the search for her. She'll do anything to get out of the childbirth classes she's attending in case she has to coach Mavis through the birth of her first child. But it seems the disappearance is linked to some very high society types and Eve may have to step on a few toes to learn the truth. No worries -- stepping on toes is one of Eve's favorite things. But will it get her out of the childbirth thing?
BORN IN DEATH is the much-anticipated installment in Robb's (aka Nora Roberts) In Death series featuring the birth of Mavis and Leonardo's baby. The characters are as engaging, fun and familiar as always, and the case is one that shocks even Eve. As always, I wasn't ready for it to end and am already looking forward to the next one. A very good read.
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
Eve 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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