Abandoned in Death, J. D. Robb
Abandoned in Death, J. D. Robb
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Abandoned in Death

Bestseller

Author: J. D. Robb

Narrator: Susan Ericksen

Unabridged: 13 hr 16 min

Format: Digital Audiobook Download

Published: 02/08/2022


Synopsis

"Whether this is the listener's first or fiftieth In Death story, they're guaranteed an enjoyable listening experience."-AudioFile on Abandoned in Death

Homicide detective Eve Dallas must untangle a twisted family history while a hostage’s life hangs in the balance—in the new In Death novel by New York Times bestselling author J. D. Robb.

The woman’s body was found in the early morning, on a bench in a New York City playground. She was clean, her hair neatly arranged, her makeup carefully applied. But other things were very wrong—like the tattoo and piercings, clearly new. The clothes, decades out of date. The fatal wound hidden beneath a ribbon around her neck. And the note: Bad Mommy, written in crayon as if by a child.

Eve Dallas turns to the department’s top profiler, who confirms what seems obvious to Eve: They’re dealing with a killer whose childhood involved some sort of trauma—a situation Eve is all too familiar with herself. Yet the clues suggest a perpetrator who’d be roughly sixty years old, and there are no records of old crimes with a similar MO. What was the trigger that apparently reopened such an old wound and sent someone over the edge?

When Eve discovers that other young women—who physically resemble the first victim—have vanished, the clock starts ticking louder. But to solve this case she will need to find her way into a hidden place of dim light and concrete, into the distant past, and into the cold depths of a shattered mind.

A Macmillan Audio production from St. Martin's Press

About J. D. Robb

Boonsboro, Maryland resident famous author, Nora Roberts has been writing suspense novels very successfully, under the pseudonym of J. D. Robb since 1995. Her first In Death series book was Naked in Death, to which readers were immediately attracted to the main character…Eve Dallas, and her love interest…Roarke.

Since the book in the series in 1999, Loyalty in Death, every Robb novel has been included on the New York Times bestsellers list. Many of Robb's fans were suspicious that Roberts and Robb might be one in the same, and those suspicions were verified by her twelfth book in 2001.

Some of Robb's biggest fans are other famous mystery writers, such as the likes of Stephen King and Jonathan Kellerman......pretty good critics! The In Death series will continue as long as Robb wants to keep writing the novels. She has said that if Eve has a child in a novel, that will be a signal that the series is concluding.


Reviews

Goodreads review by PamG on April 22, 2022

Abandoned in Death by J. D. Robb (pseudonym for Nora Roberts) brings murder, romance and suspense to a well-written futuristic police procedural set mainly in New York City. This novel has a slightly different format for this series in that it alternates timelines between the early part of the t......more

Goodreads review by Jonetta on February 23, 2022

This time it’s a body strategically placed on a bench at a children’s playground. NYPSD Lieutenant Eve Dallas and her team examine the scene and aside from being disturbed by the murder and location, they notice how the victim is obsessively clean and perfectly made up. But, her clothes are of a muc......more

Goodreads review by Mallory on February 15, 2025

The more I read from this series the more I love them. This mystery was one of my favorites so far, I thought it was creepy and sad and wonderful. A woman who was kidnapped was left perfectly made up with a new tattoo, piercings, and a sign that says “Bad Mommy”. Lt. Dallas is extra inspired to find......more

Goodreads review by Hulya on February 22, 2022

I think this gif summarize my feelings about how much I love Roarke... 🥰  I've been reading this series since 2015 and with each book I love these characters more and more... 😊 ------------------------------------------------ He rose, pointed a finger at the cat when Galahad took a very casual st......more

Goodreads review by Mara on February 25, 2022

3.5 stars - I thought this took a while to really get going, but I absolutely loved where it ended up. It was particularly satisfying because I thought we were spending time on a particular character group for one reason and then it totally got undermined by the end!......more