Reunion in Death
From #1 New York Times bestselling author Nora Roberts, writing as J.D. Robb, comes a compelling new novel in the futuristic series…A birthday bash sets the scene for a frightening reunion with a killer from Eve Dallas’s past… At exactly 7:30 p.m., Walter Pettibone arrived home to over a...
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From #1 New York Times bestselling author Nora Roberts, writing as J.D. Robb, comes a compelling new novel in the futuristic series…A birthday bash sets the scene for a frightening reunion with a killer from Eve Dallas’s past… At exactly 7:30 p.m., Walter Pettibone arrived home to over a hundred friends and family shouting, “surprise!” It was his birthday. Although he had known about the planned event for weeks, the real surprise was yet to come. At 8:45 p.m., a woman with emerald eyes and red hair handed him a glass of champagne. One sip of birthday bubbly, and he was dead. The woman’s name is Julie Dockport. No one at the party knew who she was. But Detective Eve Dallas remembers her all too well. Eve was personally responsible for her incarceration nearly ten years ago. And now, let out on good behavior, she still has nothing but bad intentions. It appears she wants to meet Dallas again—in a reunion neither will forget…
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Format: mass market paperback
ISBN:
9780425183977 (0425183971)
ASIN: 0425183971
Publish date: 2002-03-05
Publisher: Berkley
Pages no: 384
Edition language: English
Holy crap...this book has what has to be the best "Eve takes down the baddie" scene EVER. I literally had to put the book down to punch the air in glee. Then I reread it. It was that good. There were also some extremely difficult moments as Eve travels back to Dallas and has to face her past. I cr...
This book picks up after the two week vacation that Roarke talked Eve into in the last book. The action starts out a little slow, since Eve just got back from vacation and they don't get a case until later that day. Eve and Peabody go though the cold cases and find one that's been open of six year...
I am exhausted now reading this lol. Eve gets beaten up more than a breakfast egg in this one. Ouch. And then she gets to kick some serious ass. I need to read something now with less bruises...
I think this is probably one of my favorite In Death books to date - not only because of the storyline - thinking back, I think this might be one of the first ones with a bad female (and boy, was she ever bad), but also the developing relationship between Eve and Rourke, as they approach their first...
Walter Pettibone, owner of a florist empire is poisoned during his own surprise birthday party. None of the guests appear to have a motive for the murder, but once Lt. Eve Dallas identifies the murderer on security videos, she recognizes her as Julianna Dunne, a woman Eve helped put in prison early ...