Memory In Death (THE 22nd OF THE 'IN DEATH' SERIES, SIGNED)

Robb, J. D. (Nora Roberts)

ISBN 10: 0399153284 / ISBN 13: 9780399153280

Published by G.P. Putnam's Sons / a member of Penguin Group (USA) Inc., New York, 2006

About this Item

Signed "JD Robb" in black ink to what appears to be a publisher's bound-in preliminary page. Number line complete 10 9 8 7 6 5 4 3 2 1 -- the first printing. The 22nd entry in Robb's "In Death" adventures of homicide detective Eve Dallas, who polices a 2060 New York City where guns have been banned. (It's never made clear what happened to the Second Amendment, but it's a wish-fulfillment fantasy that Robb's readers seem to enjoy sharing, along with the notion that our heroine can enjoy living in a magic castle in Central Park with her fantastically handsome Irish capitalist billionaire husband (so capitalism also survives in New York? Hey, fantasy) -- a gazillion-room castle apparently staffed with only one aging Man Friday. This time around, one of the foster moms who made Eve's teen-age years a living hell shows up from Texas, supposedly "just to see how Eve is doing." 337 pp., reduced from $15.

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Bibliographic Details

• Title: Memory In Death (THE 22nd OF THE 'IN DEATH' SERIES, SIGNED)
• Publisher: G.P. Putnam's Sons / a member of Penguin Group (USA) Inc., New York
• Publication Date: 2006
• Language: English
• ISBN 10: 0399153284
• ISBN 13: 9780399153280
• Binding: Hardcover
• Illustrator: Jacket design & photo illustration by George Cornell
• Edition: 1st Edition
• Printing: 1st Printing
• Condition: Fine
• Dust Jacket Condition: Fine
• Signed: Signed by Author(s)
• Seller catalogs:
  • Women's Interest
  • Mysteries
  • crime / action-adventure

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Synopsis

The #1 New York Times-bestselling author of Survivor in Death has Lieutenant Eve Dallas walking a tightrope between her professional duties and her private demons.

Eve Dallas is one tough cop. She's got no problem dealing with a holiday reveler in a red suit who plunges thirty-seven stories and gives new meaning to the term "sidewalk Santa." But when she gets back to the station and Trudy Lombard shows up, it's all Eve can do to hold it together. Instantly, she's thrown back into the past, to the days when she was a vulnerable, traumatized girl-trapped in foster care with the twisted woman who now sits in front of her, smiling.

Trudy claims she just wanted to see how Eve was doing. But Eve's husband, Roarke, suspects otherwise-and his suspicions prove correct when Trudy arrives at his office, demanding money in exchange for keeping the ugly details of his wife's childhood a secret. Barely restraining himself, Roarke shows her the door-and makes it clear that she'd be wise to get out of New York and never bother him or his wife again.

But just a few days later, Trudy's found on the floor of her hotel room, a mess of bruises and blood. A cop to the core, Eve is determined to solve the case, if only for the sake of Trudy's bereaved son. Unfortunately, Eve is not the only one to have suffered at this woman's hands, and she and Roarke will follow a circuitous, dangerous path to find out who turned this victimizer into a victim.

About the Author

J.D. Robb is the pseudonym for a number-one New York Times���bestselling author of more than 200 novels, including the futuristic suspense In Death series. There are more than 400 million copies of her books in print.