Seduction in Death (Engineer: Melissa Coates): Dante had been courting his victim in cyberspace for weeks before meeting her in person. A few hours later, she was dead. Detective Eve Dallas is playing and replaying the clues in her mind. The candlelight, the music, the rose petals strewn across the bed - he hadn't intended to kill her. But now that he has, he is left with only two choices: to either hole up in fear and guilt or start hunting again...
Reunion in Death (Engineer: Jill Sovis): At exactly 7:30 p.m., Walter Pettibone arrived home to over a hundred friends and family shouting, 'surprise!' 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. Detective Eve Dallas remembers her all too well. Eve was personally responsible for her incarceration. And now, let out on good behavior, she still has nothing but bad intentions.
Purity in Death (Engineer: Jill Sovis): Louie Cogburn had spent three days holed up in his apartment, staring at his computer screen. When someone knocked at his door, Louie picked up a baseball bat, opened the door, and started swinging... The first cop on the scene fired his stunner twice and Louie died instantly. When a second man dies under nearly identical circumstances, Detective Eve Dallas starts racking her brain for answers and for courage to face the impossible...that this might be a computer virus able to spread from machine to man...
J.D. Robb is the author of the #1 New York Times bestselling In Death series and the pseudonym for #1 New York Times bestselling author Nora Roberts. The futuristic suspense series stars Eve Dallas, a New York City police lieutenant with a dark past. Initially conceived as a trilogy, readers clamored for more of Eve and the mysterious Roarke. Forgotten in Death (St. Martin's Press, September 2021) is the 53rd entry in the series.
So there are about a million books (give or take) in the J.D.Robb "In Death" series. I am up to book #22 and have yet to read one that I did not like/love. Robb is an excellent writer with attention to detail, but not too much attention. The series takes place about 40 or so years in the future but the details of this future place (such as air boards and flying cars) are described in a non-distracting way. In other words the future is not a character in the books the characters are. The characters, by the way, are very three dimensional. I don't want to say too much about the characters or even the stories except that there is, in every book, a crime to be solved (Eve Dallas is a NYC cop after all) humor and sex. If you love a good detective novel and a strong female lead, you will probably love these books. Furthermore, the writing is solid which is a must no matter what the genre.
I completely am in love with this series! My only regret is that I can't find them all at my Libraries that I have access to! Specifically I'm looking for them in Audio books as I'm in my car a lot of the time in the day. I have one in my car, and I have a different one I listen to in my bedroom!
I give the overall series a 4. Some books are better than others, naturally. This is an omnibus version with five books. The series is best read in order, but it is not required.