Rapture in Death

Started 5/27/12
Ended 5/28/12

Book 4

They died with smiles on their faces. Three apparent suicides: a brilliant engineer, an infamous lawyer, and a controversial politician. Three strangers with nothing in common--and no obvious reasons for killing themselves. Police lieutenant Eve Dallas found the deaths suspicious. And her instincts paid off when autopsies revealed small burns on the brains of the victims. Was it a genetic abnormality or a high-tech method of murder? Eve's investigation turned to the provocative world of virtual reality games--where the same techniques used to create joy and desire could also prompt the mind to become the weapon of its own destruction...

Immortal in Death

Started 5/24/12
Ended 5/26/12

Book 3

She was one of the most sought after women in the world. A top model who would stop at nothing to get what she wanted - even another woman's man. And now she was dead, the victim of a brutal murder. Police lieutenant Eve Dallas put her professional life on the line to take the case when suspicion fell on her best friend, the other woman in the fatal love triangle. Beneath the facade of glamour, Eve found that the world of high fashion thrived on an all-consuming obsession for youth and fame. One that led from the runway to the dark underworld of New York City where drugs could be found to fulfill any desire - for a price . . .

Glory in Death

Started 5/22/12
Ended 5/24/12


Book 2

The first victim was found lying on a sidewalk in the rain. The second was murdered in her own apartment building. Police Lieutenant Eve Dallas had no problem finding connections between the two crimes. Both victims were beautiful and highly successful women. Their glamorous lives and loves were the talk of the city. And their intimate relations with men of great power and wealth provided Eve with a long list of suspects--including her own lover, Roarke. As a woman, Eve was compelled to trust the man who shared her bed. But as a cop, it was her job to follow every lead..to explore every secret passion, no matter how dark. Or how dangerous.

In Death Reading List

My reading list of books of the In Death series by J.D. Robb (Nora Roberts)
I will update this list as more books are read or released...stay tuned and wish me luck!

Naked in Death, July 1995
Glory in Death, December 1995
Immortal in Death, July 1996
Rapture in Death, October 1996
Ceremony in Death, May 1997
Vengeance in Death, October 1997
Holiday in Death, June 1998
Conspiracy in Death, April 1999
Loyalty in Death, October 1999
Witness in Death, March 2000
Judgment in Death, September 2000
Betrayal in Death, March 2001
Seduction in Death, September 2001
Reunion in Death, March 2002
Purity in Death, September 2002
Portrait in Death, March 2003
Imitation in Death, September 2003
Divided in Death, January 2004
Visions in Death, August 2004
Survivor in Death, February 2005
Origin in Death, July 2005
Memory in Death, January 2006
Born in Death, November 2006
Innocent in Death, February 2007
Creation in Death, November 2007
Strangers in Death, February 2008
Salvation in Death, November 2008
Promises in Death, February 2009
Kindred in Death, November 2009
Fantasy in Death, February 2010
Indulgence in Death, November 2010
Treachery in Death, February 2011
New York to Dallas, September 2011
Celebrity in Death, February 2012
Delusion in Death, September 2012

Naked in Death

Started 5/19/12
Ended 5/22/12

Book #1

I came across this book when I downloaded a file of ebooks. I had always heard about Nora Roberts writing as J.D. Roberts but never had the chance to get into her books. There are 33 books in this series so far. I plan to read them. I try to find an author who writes in sequence, like Janet Evanovich and Sue Grafton, James Sanford, and James Patterson to name a few. I have read all the books for all these authors. I just get into the series and as long as the main character is likable i'm hooked!

This is the first book of the In Death series and I thoroughly enjoyed it, I could not put it down. Murder mystery with a touch of romance, exactly what I love reading about.

Eve Dallas is a New York police lieutenant using her instincts to hunt for a ruthless killer. And she’s going against every warning telling her not to get involved with Roarke, an Irish billionaire—and a suspect in Eve’s murder investigation. But passion and seduction have rules of their own.

Gabriel's Inferno

Started 4/29/12
Ended 4/30/12


I started this based on a recommendation on a blog. I was doing some research behind the Shades of Grey series and I came across this review. I think if I had not read The Shades of Grey this book would have been a great read. I enjoyed this book but it felt as if the story took a very long time to develop. The references to Dante and Beatrice at first were romantic and towards the end it just seemed redundant. The lost soul looking for love was so pleasing. Some of the things he says just don't seem like what a true romantic would say no matter how much in love a man is.

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Summary:
Enigmatic and sexy, Professor Gabriel Emerson is a well respected Dante specialist by day, but by night he devotes himself to an uninhibited life of pleasure. He uses his notorious good looks and sophisticated charm to gratify his every whim, but is secretly tortured by his dark past and consumed by the profound belief that he is beyond all hope of redemption.

When the sweet and innocent Julia Mitchell enrolls as his graduate student, his attraction and mysterious connection to her not only jeopardizes his career, but sends him on a journey in which his past and his present collide.

An intriguing and sinful exploration of seduction, forbidden love and redemption, “Gabriel's Inferno” is a captivating and wildly passionate tale of one man's escape from his own personal hell as he tries to earn the impossible...forgiveness and love.

Circle of Friends

Started 4/24/12
Ended 4/29/12

I think I read this book to early in life. It took me forever to read this book, not because of the content, because I could not get into the story. The only reason I finished reading it was because I started it. If I had saved this book for when I am 60 then I believe I would have enjoyed it. I remember there was a older woman I worked with when I was 25, she used to swap books with her friends and this book would have been a part of their reader's circle. The story just did not captivate me. No wonder it took me forever to read it!

It began with Benny Hogan and Eve Malone, growing up, inseparable, in the village of Knockglen. Benny—the only child, yearning to break free from her adoring parents...Eve—the orphaned offspring of a convent handyman and a rebellious blueblood, abandoned by her mother's wealthy family to be raised by nuns. Eve and Benny—they knew the sins and secrets behind every villager's lace curtains...except their own.

It widened at Dublin, at the university where Benny and Eve met beautiful Nan Mahlon and Jack Foley, a doctor's handsome son. But heartbreak and betrayal would bring the worlds of Knockglen and Dublin into explosive collision. Long-hidden lies would emerge to test the meaning of love and the strength of ties held within the fragile gold bands of a...Circle Of Friends.