Books by J. D. Robb and Complete Book Reviews

J. D. Robb, Author , writing as J.D. Robb. Putnam $21.95 (338p) ISBN 978-0-399-15171-2
Though not as gripping as the previous installments in Robb's mid–21st-century In Death series (Remember When , etc.), this new offering showcases her many talents. New York policewoman Eve Dallas is on the trail of a serial killer who...
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J. D. Robb, Author writing as J.D. Robb. Putnam $23.95 (384p) ISBN 978-0-399-15208-5
In the 20th fine volume of Roberts's futuristic mystery franchise, police lieutenant Eve Dallas is called in when lawyer Grant Swisher and his family are massacred with eerie skillfulness on the Upper West Side. The only survivor is 10-year-old...
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J. D. Robb, Author writing as J.D. Robb. Putnam $23.95 (339p) ISBN 978-0-399-15289-4
Set in the year 2059, this latest in Robb's long-running series (Naked in Death , etc.) featuring acerbic Lt. Eve Dallas of the New York police is the best in recent memory. In the past, Robb has kept whiz-bang futuristic effects to a minimum,...
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J. D. Robb, Author writing as J.D. Robb. Putnam $24.95 (352p) ISBN 978-0-399-15328-0
After clashing with clones and killers in last year's Origin in Death , New York City police lieutenant Eve Dallas ("Her eyes were the color of good, aged whiskey and were long like the rest of her. And like the rest of her, they were all...
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J. D. Robb, Author writing as J.D. Robb. Putnam $24.95 (352p) ISBN 978-0-399-15347-1
Set in New York City in 2060, bestseller Roberts's latest police thriller under her Robb pseudonym in her Lt. Eve Dallas series (Naked in Death, etc.) offers her usual engaging characters. Dallas's investigation of the brutal murders of...
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J. D. Robb, Author writing as J.D. Robb. Putnam $25.95 (400p) ISBN 978-0-399-15401-0
Once again Lt. Eve Dallas shows why she's "New York City's top murder cop" in Roberts's 24th thriller under her Robb pseudonym set half a century into the future (after 2006's Born in Death ). Dallas tries to close a case at...
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J. D. Robb, Author . Putnam $25.95 (352p) ISBN 978-0-399-15436-2
At 27 books and counting, Nora Roberts is more prolific under her Robb pseudonym than most authors manage in a single career. Yet the latest in her not-so-near-future detective series featuring New York Police Det. Eve Dallas offers a satisfyingly...
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J. D. Robb, Author . Putnam $25.95 (368p) ISBN 978-0-399-15522-2
Holy communion spells death for Fr. Miguel Flores, a popular Catholic priest in New York City's Spanish Harlem, after he swallows wine laced with cyanide during a funeral in bestseller Robb's unusually introspective 27th crime thriller to...
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J. D. Robb, Author . Putnam $26.95 (342p) ISBN 978-0-399-15548-2
At the start of bestseller Robb's megablast 28th novel to feature Lt. Eve Dallas (after Salvation in Death ), Eve is dismayed to discover at a Manhattan crime scene that the victim is a friend, Det. Amaryllis Coltraine, who's been fatally...
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J. D. Robb, Author . Putnam $26.95 (384p) ISBN 978-0-425-23367-2
New York City law officers have more technological weapons at their disposal in bestseller Robb's snappy near-future series, but so do criminals, including the sadistic rapist killer who strikes down Deena MacMasters, the 16-year-old daughter...
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J. D. Robb, Author . Putnam $26.95 (368p) ISBN 978-0-399-15624-3
Lt. Eve Dallas, a top homicide cop for the New York Police and Security Department (the law enforcement agency for a mid 21st-century New York City), faces one of the more challenging cases of her career in bestseller Robb's exciting 31st “
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J.D. Robb, Putnam, $26.95 (384p) ISBN 978-0-399-15687-8
Lt. Eve Dallas of the New York Police and Security Department returns home from a long overdue Irish vacation to a string of bizarre murders in Robb's thrilling 32nd future cop novel (after Fantasy in Death). The crossbow killing of chauffeur Jamal...
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J. D. Robb, Author Berkley Publishing Group $7.99 (357p) ISBN 978-0-425-17363-3
It is 2059, and New York City homicide lieutenant Eve Dallas's husband, Roarke, is producing a revival of Agatha Christie's thriller Witness for the Prosecution. On opening night, when the villainous character Leonard Vole gets his just deserts,...
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J. D. Robb, Author Berkley Publishing Group $7.99 (356p) ISBN 978-0-425-17630-6
Written under the pen name J.D. Robb, this futuristic mysteryDset in New York City, year 2059Dshowcases veteran writer Nora Roberts's skills at their best. It's as tough, smart, sassy and successful as its heroine, police lieutenant Eve Dallas. The...
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J. D. Robb, Author Putnam Adult $26.95 (384p) ISBN 978-0-399-15595-6
New York City law officers have more technological weapons at their disposal in bestseller Robb's snappy near-future series, but so do criminals, including the sadistic rapist killer who strikes down Deena MacMasters, the 16-year-old daughter of...
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J.D. Robb, Putnam, $26.95 (384p) ISBN 978-0-399-15703-5
Lt. Eve Dallas and her squad take on corrupt cops in Robb's 33rd full-length novel featuring the New York Police and Security Dept. homicide detective (after Indulgence in Death), a fast-paced, intricate, and deadly dance of well-matched opponents....
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J.D. Robb. Putnam, $27.95 (416p) ISBN 978-0-399-15778-3
Bestseller Robb breaks with one tradition in her 34th Eve Dallas novel (after Treachery in Death); "Death" is not part of the title, but otherwise she delivers precisely the kind of rapid-fire thrust and parry action fans expect from the near-future
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J.D. Robb. Putnam, $27.95 (400p) ISBN 978-0-399-15830-8
Murder, sex, and blackmail all figure in bestseller Robb’s smart, well-crafted 35th Eve Dallas novel set in mid-21st-century New York City (after 2011’s Dallas to New York). Lt. Eve Dallas feels a little uneasy attending a party at Hollywood mogul...
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J.D. Robb. Putnam, $27.95 (400p) ISBN 978-0-399-15882-7
In bestseller Robb’s engaging 37th Eve Dallas thriller (after 2012’s Delusion in Death), Dallas and her partner, Delia Peabody, look into the death of Marta Dickenson. Found with a broken neck at the bottom of a stairway in an Upper East Side...
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J.D. Robb. Putnam, $27.95 (416p) ISBN 978-0-399-16442-2
Apart from references to such things as advanced robots and “vids” (the new name for theatrical movies), 2060 New York City is indistinguishable from present-day Gotham in bestseller Robb’s 38th full-length Eve Dallas thriller (after 2013’s...
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J.D. Robb. Putnam, $27.95 (416p) ISBN 978-0-399-17087-4
Bestseller Robb reaches a milestone with the 40th entry in her near-future New York City series that debuted in 1995 with Naked in Death. As 2060 nears its end, Lt. Eve Dallas of the New York Police and Security Department, has a lot to celebrate,...
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J.D. Robb. Putnam, $27.95 (384p) ISBN 978-0-399-17088-1
Bestseller Robb’s exciting 41st near-future thriller starring hard-driving Lt. Eve Dallas (after Obsession in Death) boasts a pair of memorable villains: Ella-Loo Parsens and Darryl Roy James, sadistic lovers who leave an unmarked trail of 29...
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J.D. Robb. Berkley, $27.95 (400p) ISBN 978-0-399-17089-8
Bestseller Robb's subpar 42nd novel set in a near-future New York (after 2015's Devoted in Death) finds Eve's friend Dennis Mira, husband of her psychiatrist colleague, Charlotte Mira, requesting her help after his cousin, former U.S. senator Edward
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J.D. Robb. St. Martin’s, $27.99 (384p) ISBN 978-1-250-12311-4
Bestseller Robb (aka Nora Roberts) is not only prolific but consistently inventive, entertaining, and clever in her crime series set in a near-future New York City, as shown by the stunning 44th entry (after 2016’s Apprentice in Death). One cold...
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J.D. Robb. St. Martin’s, $27.99 (384p) ISBN 978-1-250-12315-2
At the start of bestseller Robb’s entertaining 45th novel set in a near-future New York City (after Echoes in Death), homicide cop Eve Dallas is having a drink at Du Vin, a lower Manhattan bar owned by her entrepreneur husband, Roarke, when gossip...
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This 12th installment in Robb's (aka Nora Roberts) popular and critically praised futuristic cop series, set in the year 2059, finds Lt. Eve Dallas butting heads with the FBI in a race to take down a hired killer who appears to be targeting the
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J. D. Robb, Author, Nora Roberts, Author . Berkley $7.99 (384p) ISBN 978-0-425-18397-7
Seasoned author Nora Roberts, writing as Robb, delivers another exhilarating entry in her popular futuristic cop series featuring Eve Dallas (Seduction in Death, etc.). Dallas, a New York police lieutenant, is a hard-bitten warrior cop who buries...
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J. D. Robb, Author, Nora Roberts, Author . Berkley $7.99 (368p) ISBN 978-0-425-18630-5
"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 (afte
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J. D. Robb, Author, Nora Roberts, Author , writing as J.D. Robb. Berkley $7.99 (368p) ISBN 978-0-425-18903-0
Lieutenant Eve Dallas may live in 2059, but she's still a recognizable Manhattan police officer: mouthy, courageous, skeptical and impatient. In Roberts's latest In Death novel (after Purity in Death), she's charged with finding a killer
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J. D. Robb, Author, Nora Roberts, Author . Putnam $25.95 (448p) ISBN 978-0-399-15106-4
A perfect marriage of sensuality and suspense, this sparkling new offering from Roberts (Birthright, etc.) and her alter ego, Robb (Imitation in Death, etc.) takes readers on a two-part journey—first to the quaint burg of Angel's Gap, Md.
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J. D. Robb, Author, Nora Roberts, Author writing as J.D. Robb. Berkley $7.99 (352p) ISBN 978-0-425-19158-3
The latest entry in Robb's series of feisty futuristic mysteries (after Portrait in Death) delivers. This time, Lt. Eve Dallas shows up to investigate the grisly killing of a New York City prostitute only to find a note from the killer on the...
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J. D. Robb, Author, Nora Roberts, Author . Putnam $25.95 (356p) ISBN 978-0-399-15470-6
In bestseller Robb’s slick 26th not-so-near-future crime thriller to feature Lt. Eve Dallas (after 2007’s Creation in Death ), the New York City homicide cop investigates the murder of business tycoon Thomas Anders, whose strangled body...
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J. D. Robb, Author, Nora Roberts, Author Berkley $7.99 (368p) ISBN 978-0-425-18146-1
In the 13th installment of Robb's (aka Nora Roberts) futuristic In Death series (after Betrayal in Death), New York's Lieutenant Eve Dallas takes on a Casanova killer who targets young women via on-line poetry chat rooms. The killer sets the mood
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J. D. Robb, Author, Nora Roberts, Author Berkley Publishing Group $7.99 (320p) ISBN 978-0-425-15518-9
The year is 2056. mood-altering drugs are legal, prostitution is licensed, virtual-reality games have replaced TV sets for entertainment and New York supercop Eve Dallas continues her sleuthing in Robb's fourth installment in the Death series (Naked
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J. D. Robb, Author, Nora Roberts, Author Berkley Publishing Group $7.99 (384p) ISBN 978-0-425-16039-8
The publishing world might be hard-pressed to find an author with a more diverse style or fertile imagination than Roberts, writing here as J.D. Robb. As in her five earlier Eve Dallas novels, the time is mid-21st century, and tough super-cop...
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J. D. Robb, Author, Nora Roberts, Author Berkley Publishing Group $7.99 (336p) ISBN 978-0-425-16371-9
The year is 2058. Guns are banned and medical science has learned how to prolong life to well beyond the century mark. And man has yet to stop killing man. At Cop Central, it's Lieutenant Eve Dallas's job to stand up for the dead. So begins the...
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J. D. Robb, Author, Nora Roberts, Author Berkley Publishing Group $7.99 (400p) ISBN 978-0-425-16813-4
""For some, death wasn't the enemy. Life was a much less merciful opponent."" So opens the eighth and latest installment (following Holiday in Death) in Robb's (a.k.a. Nora Roberts's) futuristic crime drama series. Moody, angst-ridden Lieutenant Eve
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J. D. Robb, Author, Nora Roberts, Author, Mary Blayney, Author . Jove $7.99 (394p) ISBN 978-0-515-14367-6
Robb (aka Nora Roberts) is indeed the headliner, but this all-new four-novella anthology definitely doesn't suffer from “standout single” syndrome—this one's all killer, no filler. In Robb's opener, a courageous...
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J.D. Robb et al. Jove, $7.99 mass market (432p) ISBN 978-0-515-15547-1
Alice’s Adventures in Wonderland connects the stories in this middling anthology, anchored by what looks like an open-and-shut case of murder-suicide in Robb’s “Wonderment in Death.” The In Death novellas can seem anemic compared to the novels, but...
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J.D. Robb, Mary Blayney, Elaine Fox, Mary Kay McComas, and R.C. Ryan. Jove, $7.99 mass market (416p) ISBN 978-0-515-15407-8
Returning novella contributors Robb, Blayney, McComas, and Ryan (The Unquiet) are joined by newcomer Fox in this interesting collection of fairy-tale–inspired stories of romance and intrigue. Robb’s Eve Dallas must track down a pair of missing twins
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J. D. Robb, Author, Mary Blayney, Author, Ruth Ryan Langan, Author . Jove $7.99 (393p) ISBN 978-0-515-14117-7
A talky, tepid entry from Robb/Roberts sets the stage for a disjointed and mostly disappointing collection of paranormal romances. Only Robb's and Ryan's stories adhere to the volume's "bump in the night" theme, and they are the...
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J. D. Robb, Author, Laurell K. Hamilton, Author, Susan Krinard, Author . Jove, $7.50 (368p) ISBN 978-0-515-13109-3
Although this anthology features some of the most popular names in futuristic and paranormal romance, it reads more like a catalogue than a cohesive book. Robb's "Interlude in Death," featuring Lieutenant Eve Dallas, kicks off the...
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J. D. Robb, Author, Susan Ericksen, Read by , read by Susan Ericksen. Brilliance Audio $33.95 (0p) ISBN 978-1-59355-823-9
The third, and arguably best, book in Robb's futuristic In Death series here receives its first unabridged audio treatment (the abridged version was offered in 2001 by Brilliance), and the result is a brisk listen that captures all the suspense...
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J. D. Robb, Author, Susan Ericksen, Read by , read by Susan Ericksen. Brilliance Audio $19.99 (0p) ISBN 978-1-4233-6193-0
Robb's latest crime caper finds Lt. Eve Dallas in the center of a murder investigation that stinks of satanic ritual and the occult. The writing itself is fairly solid, but Susan Erickson's reading is beyond corny and over the top. A...
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J.D. Robb, read by Susan Ericksen. Brilliance Audio, unabridged, 11 CDs, 13.25 hrs., $38.99 ISBN 978-1-4418-3623-6
Set in New York City, the bestselling futuristic romantic mystery series is populated with recurring characters—the talented, complicated Lt. Eve Dallas, who in this installment is investigating police corruption in her own department, and her Irish
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J.D. Robb, read by Susan Ericksen. Brilliance Audio, unabridged, 11 CDs, 13.25 hrs., $38.99 ISBN 978-1-4558-1831-0
Robb’s latest installment in her popular In Death series starts with a bang and never lets up. In the not so distant future, NYPD homicide detective Eve Dallas is confronted with a horrific crime scene. On a quiet Friday night the patrons and staff...
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Nevada Barr, Author, J. D. Robb, Author, Nancy Pickard, Author . St. Martin's Minotaur $24.95 (320p) ISBN 978-0-312-25194-9
An all-star lineup of 13 women mystery authors has produced one madcap, murderous tale in the same serial fashion as Naked Came the Manatee (1996). To some extent, position determines each contributor's role, but each author has ample...
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