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In Death: Book 30

Creation in Death (2007) (edit title/settings)

by J. D. Robb (Author) (edit contributors)

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When the body of a young brunette is found in East River Park, artfully positioned and marked by signs of prolonged and painful torture, Lieutenant Eve Dallas is catapulted back to a case nine years earlier. The city had been on edge due to a killing spree that took the lives of four women in... read more

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NYPSD Lieutenant Eve Dallas keeps the streets of a near-future New York City safe in this extraordinary series. But even she makes mistakes, and is haunted by those she couldn't save-and the killers she couldn't capture.

When the body of a young brunette is found in East River Park, Eve... read more (warning: may contain spoilers)

NYPSD Lieutenant Eve Dallas keeps the streets of a near-future New York City safe in this extraordinary series. But even she makes mistakes, and is haunted by those she couldn't save-and the killers she couldn't capture.

When the body of a young brunette is found in East River Park, Eve has seen this crime scene before: the artfully arranged body of a young brunette, arms spread, palms up, body marked by the signs of prolonged and painful torture. Carved into her torso is the time it took her to die - in hours, minutes, and seconds. And on the third finger of her left hand has been placed a silver ring.

Eve is catapulted back to a case nine years earlier, when a man whom the media tagged “The Groom”, because he put silver rings on his victims' fingers. The city had been on edge due to a killing spree that took the lives of four women in fifteen days. Eve and her partner Ryan Feeney, her friend and mentor, couldn’t stop him before he disappeared, only to resurface in other parts of the world to kill and kill again. But now The Groom seems to have come back to where he started.

This time, it becomes chillingly clear that the killer has made his attack personal: when it turns out that The Groom’s most recent victim was employed by Eve’s billionaire husband, Roarke, she brings him onto the case. A move that proves fitting when it becomes chillingly clear that the killer has made it personal. The corpse was washed in products from a store Roarke owns and laid out on a sheet his company manufactures. With the Groom’s monstrous return, Eve is determined to finish him once and for all. Familiar with his methods, she knows that he has already grabbed his next victim.

But his sights are set on the biggest challenge of his illustrious career - an abduction that will test his skills and that promises to give him satisfaction as he’s never known. Time is running out on another woman’s life... and for Eve.

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  • “I’m serving as President of the Pissed-off Club. I’ll take your application for membership under advisement.”
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  • He thought of what his wife had said the night before. That he’d railed at Dallas because she was his family. That she’d let him rail because he was her family. Nobody, according to his Sheila, beat each other up as regularly or as thoughtlessly as family.
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  • It was hardly a wonder that it had been her, essentially from the first minute he’d seen her. That it would be her until his last breath. And very likely well beyond that.
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  • “You try to cop a feel, I can still put you down.” “Whatever your condition, Dallas, you still scare me.” “Aw.” Touched, she slung an arm around his shoulders. “That’s so sweet.”
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  • Oh, and FYI? When my time comes, I don’t want the preservatives and the stylist. You can just build a big fire, slide me in. Then you can throw yourself on the pyre to show your wild grief and constant devotion.” “I’ll make a note of it.”
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  • And now that the children are home safe and sound, we’ll have a little snack before bed.”
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  • He might be exasperating, complicated, dangerous, and difficult, but she loved every piece of the puzzle that made him.
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  • PROLOGUE FOR HIM, DEATH WAS A VOCATION.
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  • raison d’être. All that time lost, all those opportunities missed. But still, he had bloomed, and was forever grateful that he had finally looked inside himself and seen what he was. What he was meant for.
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  • “Tact’s just bullshit with spit polish over it.”
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Organizations edit see section history

  • NYPSD: New York Police and Security Department

First Sentence edit see section history

For him, death was a vocation.

Table of Contents edit see section history

Prologue
Chapters 1-22
Epilogue

Series & Lists edit see section history

This is book 30 of 47 in In Death. (standard series)

Preceded by Eternity in Death, and followed by Strangers in Death.

Authors & Contributors edit see section history

  1. J. D. Robb (Author)

Other Contributors:

  1. Susan Ericksen (Reader)

First Edition edit see section history

Original Language: English
Publisher: Putnam Adult
Country: United States
Publication Date: November 6, 2007
ISBN: 0399154361
Page Count: 337

Awards edit see section history

  • AAR (2007: Best Couple)
  • AAR (2007: Strongest Heroine)

Classification edit see section history

  • Library of Congress: PS3568.O243 C74 2007
  • Dewey: 813.54

Notes for Parents edit see section history

Reading Level: Adults

Profanity. Sexual content.

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