1995, ISBN: 9781423304777

The Barnes & Noble ReviewIn the 23rd - yes, 23rd! - installment of J.D. Robb's (a.k.a. Nora Roberts) futuristic crime fiction saga starring New York homicide lieutenant Eve Dallas, the ha… More...

The Barnes & Noble ReviewIn the 23rd - yes, 23rd! - installment of J.D. Robb's (a.k.a. Nora Roberts) futuristic crime fiction saga starring New York homicide lieutenant Eve Dallas, the hard-nosed cop is faced with her most terrifying mission to date: hosting a baby shower! ("Bloody and brutal murder is nothing compared to giving birth.") While investigating a double murder involving employees of a prominent international accounting firm, Dallas is also put in The Barnes & Noble ReviewIn the 23rd - yes, 23rd! - installment of J.D. Robb's (a.k.a. Nora Roberts) futuristic crime fiction saga starring New York homicide lieutenant Eve Dallas, the hard-nosed cop is faced with her most terrifying mission to date: hosting a baby shower! ("Bloody and brutal murder is nothing compared to giving birth.") While investigating a double murder involving employees of a prominent international accounting firm, Dallas is also put in charge of hosting a baby shower for her oldest friend, Mavis Freestone. More comfortable in a morgue than in a baby boutique, Dallas finds planning the shower almost as agonizing as the homicide investigation, which is turning out to be much more complicated than expected. With her independently wealthy husband, Roarke, acting as an expert consultant, she begins to uncover a multimillion-dollar motive that includes money laundering and tax evasion. But when a pregnant acquaintance of Freestone suddenly disappears and a partner in the firm mysteriously dies, the investigation takes a very bizarre turn… Blending mystery and romance with elements of science fiction, Roberts's genre-transcendent detective series was at the vanguard of the genre-hybrid invasion of the late 1990s. Along with works by authors like Laurell K. Hamilton, Roberts's groundbreaking Eve Dallas saga paved the way for a whole new subgenre - and created an audience for brilliant new writers like Charlie Huston, Jim Butcher, and Charlaine Harris, to name a few. That's not to say that Roberts's In Death novels are somehow passé; on the contrary, after 23 outings, Dallas, Roarke, and company still have plenty of adventures left in late-21st-century New York City before this franchise starts running out of steam. A testament to Roberts's truly exceptional narrative skills, Born in Death still has the raw vitality of her very first Eve Dallas novel (1995's Naked in Death) and should appeal Books, Fiction~~Romance~~Suspense, Born-in-Death~~J-D-Robb, , , , , , , , , , Brilliance Audio<