Zusatztext The hottest detective in the next millenium is back with another explosive foray into murder and mayhem...The always superb J. D. Robb delivers electrifying suspense and hot! hot passion in another spectacular sizzler. RT Book Reviews More Praise for the In Death series Robb is a virtuoso. Seattle Post-Intelligencer It's Law & Order: SVU in the future. Entertainment Weekly J. D. Robb's In Death novels are can't-miss pleasures.#1 New York Times bestselling author Harlan Coben Anchored by terrific characters! sudden twists that spin the whole narrative on a dime! and a thrills-to-chills ration that will raise the neck hairs of even the most jaded reader! the J. D. Robb books are the epitome of great popular fiction. New York Times bestselling author Dennis Lehane Informationen zum Autor J. D. Robb is the pseudonym for a #1 New York Times bestselling author of more than 200 novels, including the bestselling In Death series. There are more than 500 million copies of her books in print. Klappentext #1 New York Times bestselling author J. D. Robb presents the fifth thrilling novel in her futuristic In Death series-where even in an age of cutting-edge technology, old beliefs die hard. Conducting a top secret investigation into the death of a fellow police officer has Lieutenant Eve Dallas treading on dangerous ground. She must put professional ethics before personal loyalties. But when a dead body is placed outside her home, Eve takes the warnning personally. With her husband, Roarke, watching her every move, Eve is drawn into the most dangerous case of her career. Every step she takes makes her question her own beliefs of right and wrong-and brings her closer to a confrontation with humanity's most seductive form of evil... A tradition of murder Praise for Naked in Death: chapter one chapter two chapter three chapter four chapter five chapter six chapter seven chapter eight chapter nine chapter ten chapter eleven chapter twelve chapter thirteen chapter fourteen chapter fifteen chapter sixteen chapter seventeen chapter eighteen chapter nineteen chapter twenty A tradition of murder On the north side of the house was an arbor of thin, somehow fluid iron. The vines twisting and tumbling over it were smothered with flowers wildly red. She had married him there, in an old traditional ceremony where vows were exchanged and promises made. A ceremony, she thought now. A rite that included music, flowers, witnesses, words that were repeated time after time, place after place, century through century So it continued. Science and logic disproved, but the rites continued, incense and chanting, offerings and the drinking of wine that symbolized blood. And the sacrifice of the innocent. Annoyed with herself, she rubbed her hands over her face. Philosophizing was foolish and useless. Murder had been done by human force. And it was human force that would dispense justice. That was, after all, the ultimate balance of good and evil. Praise for Naked in Death: Danger, romancea masterpiece of fine writing. Rendezvous Superbly suspenseful and strikingly original. Romantic Times This book contains a preview of J. D. Robb's next romantic suspense novel Vengeance in Death HOT ICE SACRED SINS BRAZEN VIRTUE SWEET REVENGE PUBLIC SECRETS GENUINE LIES CARNAL INNOCENCE DIVINE EVIL HONEST ILLUSIONS PRIVATE SCANDALS BORN IN...

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J. D. Robb is the pseudonym for a #1 New York Times bestselling author of more than 200 novels, including the bestselling In Death series. There are more than 500 million copies of her books in print.

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1 New York Times bestselling author J. D. Robb presents the fifth thrilling novel in her futuristic In Death series-where even in an age of cutting-edge technology, old beliefs die hard.

Conducting a top secret investigation into the death of a fellow police officer has Lieutenant Eve Dallas treading on dangerous ground. She must put professional ethics before personal loyalties. But when a dead body is placed outside her home, Eve takes the warnning personally. With her husband, Roarke, watching her every move, Eve is drawn into the most dangerous case of her career. Every step she takes makes her question her own beliefs of right and wrong-and brings her closer to a confrontation with humanity's most seductive form of evil...

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#1 New York Times bestselling author J. D. Robb presents the fifth thrilling novel in her futuristic In Death series—where even in an age of cutting-edge technology, old beliefs die hard.

Conducting a top secret investigation into the death of a fellow police officer has Lieutenant Eve Dallas treading on dangerous ground. She must put professional ethics before personal loyalties. But when a dead body is placed outside her home, Eve takes the warnning personally. With her husband, Roarke, watching her every move, Eve is drawn into the most dangerous case of her career. Every step she takes makes her question her own beliefs of right and wrong—and brings her closer to a confrontation with humanity's most seductive form of evil...

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A tradition of murder…

Praise for Naked in Death:

chapter one

chapter two

chapter three

chapter four

chapter five

chapter six

chapter seven

chapter eight

chapter nine

chapter ten

chapter eleven

chapter twelve

chapter thirteen

chapter fourteen

chapter fifteen

chapter sixteen

chapter seventeen

chapter eighteen

chapter nineteen

chapter twenty

A tradition of murder…

On the north side of the house was an arbor of thin, somehow fluid iron. The vines twisting and tumbling over it were smothered with flowers wildly red. She had married him there, in an old traditional ceremony where vows were exchanged and promises made. A ceremony, she thought now. A rite that included music, flowers, witnesses, words that were repeated time after time, place after place, century through century…

So it continued. Science and logic disproved, but the rites continued, incense and chanting, offerings and the drinking of wine that symbolized blood.

And the sacrifice of the innocent.

Annoyed with herself, she rubbed her hands over her face. Philosophizing was foolish and useless. Murder had been done by human force. And it was human force that would dispense justice. That was, after all, the ultimate balance of good and evil.

Praise for Naked in Death:

“Danger, romance…a masterpiece of fine writing.”

—Rendezvous

“Superbly suspenseful and strikingly original.”

—Romantic Times

This book contains a preview of J. D. Robb’s next romantic suspense novel

Vengeance in Death

HOT ICE

SACRED SINS

BRAZEN VIRTUE

SWEET REVENGE

PUBLIC SECRETS

GENUINE LIES

CARNAL INNOCENCE

DIVINE EVIL

HONEST ILLUSIONS

PRIVATE SCANDALS

BORN IN FIRE

BORN IN ICE

BORN IN SHAME

HIDDEN RICHES

TRUE BETRAYALS

DARING TO DREAM

HOLDING THE DREAM

FINDING THE DREAM

MONTANA SKY

SEA SWEPT

RISING TIDES

INNER HARBOR

SANCTUARY

HOMEPORT

THE REEF

ONCE UPON A CASTLE

(anthology with Jill Gregory, Ruth Ryan Langan,
and Marianne Willman)

FROM THE HEART (anthology)

SILENT NIGHT

(anthology with Susan Plunkett, Dee Holmes, and Claire Cross)

Titles written as J. D. Robb

NAKED IN DEATH

GLORY IN DEATH

IMMORTAL IN DEATH

RAPTURE IN DEATH

CEREMONY IN DEATH

VENGENCE IN DEATH

HOLIDAY IN DEATH

CONSPIRACY IN DEATH

CEREMONY IN DEATH

J. D. ROBB

BERKLEY BOOKS, NEW YORK

chapter one

Death surrounded her. She faced it daily, dreamed of it nightly. Lived with it always. She knew its sounds, its scents, even its texture. She could look it in its dark and clever eye without a flinch. Death was a tricky foe, she knew. One flinch, one blink, and it could shift, it could change. It coul…