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Overview

Each murder victim died with a smile on their face. The only one who isn't grinning is Police Lieutenant Eve Dallas-because she's got to find out why.

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Rapture in Deathis the fourth in Robb's series featuring Lt. Eve Dallas of the NYPD of the mid-21st century. It fittingly begins at the end of Eve and Roark's honeymoon at a new off-planet resort that is part of Roark's business empire. One of his young employees has committed suicide, found hanging in his quarters with an incongruous smile on his face. After the newly married couple returns home, Eve is confronted with other suicides using different methods but all featuring the same disconcerting grin. She concludes that this is no coincidence and somehow someone is sending these people to their deaths. When Eve realizes that one of the targeted victims is Roark, her own happiness is threatened. Rapture'slength gives Susan Ericksen more scope for her talented reading. Haunted in Death, a novella published in the anthology Bump in the Night, is the 26th Eve Dallas adventure. It centers around Number Twelve, the "in" spot of the 1960s—is it really haunted or is there a modern-day murderer inhabiting the building? Eve is definitely part of the latter school of thought, but she is surprised to find herself in the minority. Libraries will want both programs, as Robb's amusing mysteries are absorbing entertainment.
—Juleigh Muirhead Clark
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Rapture in Death is the fourth in Robb's series featuring Lt. Eve Dallas of the NYPD of the mid-21st century. It fittingly begins at the end of Eve and Roark's honeymoon at a new off-planet resort that is part of Roark's business empire. One of his young employees has committed suicide, found hanging in his quarters with an incongruous smile on his face. After the newly married couple returns home, Eve is confronted with other suicides using different methods but all featuring the same disconcerting grin. She concludes that this is no coincidence and somehow someone is sending these people to their deaths. When Eve realizes that one of the targeted victims is Roark, her own happiness is threatened. Rapture's length gives Susan Ericksen more scope for her talented reading. Haunted in Death, a novella published in the anthology Bump in the Night, is the 26th Eve Dallas adventure. It centers around Number Twelve, the "in" spot of the 1960s-is it really haunted or is there a modern-day murderer inhabiting the building? Eve is definitely part of the latter school of thought, but she is surprised to find herself in the minority. Libraries will want both programs, as Robb's amusing mysteries are absorbing entertainment.-Juleigh Muirhead Clark, John D. Rockefeller Jr. Lib., Colonial Williamsburg Fdn., VA Copyright 2007 Reed Business Information.

Product Details

  • ISBN-13: 9780425155189
  • Publisher: Penguin Group (USA) Incorporated
  • Publication date: 10/28/1996
  • Format: Mass Market Paperback
  • Edition description: Reissue
  • Pages: 320
  • Sales rank: 51,365
  • Series: In Death Series , #4
  • Product dimensions: 4.22 (w) x 6.72 (h) x 0.92 (d)

Meet the Author

Nora Roberts
Nora Roberts

Nora Roberts is the number-one New York Times-bestselling author of more than 150 novels, including High Noon, Angels Fall, Blue Smoke, and Northern Lights. She is also the author of the bestselling futuristic suspense series written under the pen name J. D. Robb. There are more than 280 million copies of her books in print.

Biography

Not only has Nora Roberts written more bestsellers than anyone else in the world (according to Publishers Weekly), she’s also created a hybrid genre of her own: the futuristic detective romance. And that’s on top of mastering every subgenre in the romance pie: the family saga, the historical, the suspense novel. But this most prolific and versatile of authors might never have tapped into her native talent if it hadn't been for one fateful snowstorm.

As her fans well know, in 1979 a blizzard trapped Roberts at home for a week with two bored little kids and a dwindling supply of chocolate. To maintain her sanity, Roberts started scribbling a story -- a romance novel like the Harlequin paperbacks she'd recently begun reading. The resulting manuscript was rejected by Harlequin, but that didn't matter to Roberts. She was hooked on writing. Several rejected manuscripts later, her first book was accepted for publication by Silhouette.

For several years, Roberts wrote category romances for Silhouette -- short books written to the publisher's specifications for length, subject matter and style, and marketed as part of a series of similar books. Roberts has said she never found the form restrictive. "If you write in category, you write knowing there's a framework, there are reader expectations," she explained. "If this doesn't suit you, you shouldn't write it. I don't believe for one moment you can write well what you wouldn't read for pleasure."

Roberts never violated the reader's expectations, but she did show a gift for bringing something fresh to the romance formula. Her first book, Irish Thoroughbred (1981), had as its heroine a strong-willed horse groom, in contrast to the fluttering young nurses and secretaries who populated most romances at the time. But Roberts's books didn't make significant waves until 1985, when she published Playing the Odds, which introduced the MacGregor clan. It was the first bestseller of many.

Roberts soon made a name for herself as a writer of spellbinding multigenerational sagas, creating families like the Scottish MacGregors, the Irish Donovans and the Ukrainian Stanislaskis. She also began working on romantic suspense novels, in which the love story unfolds beneath a looming threat of violence or disaster. She grew so prolific that she outstripped her publishers' ability to print and market Nora Roberts books, so she created an alter ego, J.D. Robb. Under the pseudonym, she began writing romantic detective novels set in the future. By then, millions of readers had discovered what Publishers Weekly called her "immeasurable diversity and talent."

Although the style and substance of her books has grown, Roberts remains loyal to the genre that launched her career. As she says, "The romance novel at its core celebrates that rush of emotions you have when you are falling in love, and it's a lovely thing to relive those feelings through a book."

Good To Know

Roberts still lives in the same Maryland house she occupied when she first started writing -- though her carpenter husband has built on some additions. She and her husband also own Turn the Page Bookstore Café in Boonsboro, Maryland. When Roberts isn't busy writing, she likes to drop by the store, which specializes in Civil War titles as well as autographed copies of her own books.

Roberts sued fellow writer Janet Dailey in 1997, accusing her of plagiarizing numerous passages of her work over a period of years. Dailey paid a settlement and publicly apologized, blaming stress and a psychological disorder for her misconduct.

    1. Also Known As:
      J. D. Robb; Sarah Hardesty; Jill March; Eleanor Marie Robertson (birth name)
    2. Hometown:
      Keedysville, Maryland
    1. Date of Birth:
      1950
    2. Place of Birth:
      Silver Spring, Maryland
    1. Website:
      http://www.noraroberts.com/

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  • Anonymous

    Posted December 30, 2011

    WOW

    I only read the first chapter and so far it's GREAT !!!!!!!!

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  • Posted November 2, 2009

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    CAUGHT MY ATTENTION!

    Keeps me entertained, keeps me guessing as the plot thickens, inspires me to write. I love going to another place and time. Why isn't there aN HBO sereies on these "Death In" series? Oh could you imagine the actors to portray JD Robb's characters! I LOOK FORWARD TO MANY MORE OF JD ROBB'S ADVANTUROUS STORIES

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  • Posted May 8, 2012

    Highly Recommend!

    I enjoy reading about Eve Dallas!

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  • Posted October 4, 2011

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    Investigating death on a honeymoon just can't bode well for a marriage.

    While off-planet at the still unopened Olympus Resort Eve & Roarke enjoy their time together - even when interrupted to check out a death. Upon returning home Eve realizes that other suicides are happening - but for no apparent reason. These are people that even the profilers would never have anticipated committing suicide. Eve knows there's a connection - now she just has to find it.

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  • Posted August 8, 2011

    Great Book!! As Usual.

    I'm such a big fan of this series. I love the characters and all of their interactions. I started with the later series and wanted to go back to the beginning, and boy am I glad I did. To see how Roark and Dallas met, and now to see how their married life began is awesome. And to see how Peabody came to work with her was so cool. What's great about this story (as for most of them) the way she (Dallas) works each case and how she digs for the truth makes each story come to life. As in the book with 3 suicides that don't seem to have anything in common, she figures it out and I see Peabody learning quickly from her. Now I get to see how Roark starts to interact and helps in his own way. I've just started the Death Series #5 and I'm already intrigued. I find that I really get wrapped up in the characters and always look forward to the next book!

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  • Posted September 23, 2010

    Good

    I just thought this book was okay. It wasn't one that I just couldn't put down.

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  • Anonymous

    Posted April 26, 2010

    Still loving Eve Dallas!!

    This book is awesome - I love being able to escape into another world and JD Robb sure knows how to do that. Looking forward to reading all the books in the series!!

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  • Posted February 20, 2010

    This series is excellent

    The future setting of these books is very plausible. Rather than having a bunch of aliens running around Earth, J.D. Robb has created a believable future. The characters are rowdy, foul-mouthed, big hearted and brave. I would love to be friends with Eve...and really close friends with Roarke! Just kidding!

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  • Posted September 15, 2009

    Nora Roberts as JD Robb - Death Series is good reading!

    I am working my way through the Death series and they are all great, but Rapture was really unusual and I truely enjoyed it.

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  • Posted August 24, 2009

    Rapture in Death

    Another of my favorite series, JD Robb, can't wait until I read the next one. Thank you so much for your excellent writing style.

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  • Posted July 25, 2009

    J.D. Robb Does it Again.

    Having read all of the novels written by J.D. Robb, this book was as suspenseful as the rest. J.D Robb makes it possible for the reader to "feel" what is happening in the book and draw you in. Good versus evil...J.D. Robb writes a mystery that has you wondering if good will win over evil, and has you pulling for Dallas and her team!

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  • Posted June 1, 2009

    I Also Recommend:

    9780553581553 9780345453815 9780553578027 9780515143805 9780425212066

    Rapture in Death: An Eve Dallas Investigation

    This is a must read for J.D. Robb (aka Nora Roberts) fans! Once you read one in the series, you feel the need to read them all. Set in the future, Eve is a detective who will stop at nothing to solve the crime and send the perpetraitor to jail, or as she calls it, a cage.

    This book will leave you hanging until the end! Just remember, the investigations don't just end here...

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  • Posted April 17, 2009

    I liked J.D Robb before I knew it was a pen name for Nora Roberts. The character of Eve Dallas is one of a person that I admire for her determination and her ability to overcome her childhood abuse

    Excellent as usual

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  • Posted April 9, 2009

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    New look to old characters

    I read this book after reading some of JD Robb's later stories and it was great to see a different side to "old" characters. You get used to the personalities and what to expect from Eve and Roarke, that it is both surprising and exciting seeing a different side of them. The connection I feel with them makes this a story that takes me on the emotional roller coaster with them.

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  • Posted November 14, 2008

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    Jennifer Wardrip - Personal Read

    This series just keeps getting better and better, and RAPTURE IN DEATH is no exception.

    Now that Eve Dallas and Roarke are finally married, they're enjoying a much needed vacation/honeymoon. But death seems to find Eve no matter where she is, and a different planet is no exception. When one of Roarke's techs ends up dead, from a supposed suicide, Eve starts to wonder if everyting is exactly what it seems.

    And when they return to New York, and more prominent people end up dead by their own hand, Dallas has a hard time convincing those around her that their suicides were actually murder.

    You won't go wrong with this series, and watching the interaction between newly wed Eve and Roarke is a wonderful thing. The fact that every mystery of every book is also well-developed and all-too-believable is an added bonus!

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  • Anonymous

    Posted August 6, 2007

    AMAZING!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

    I absolutly love J.D Robb's in death series its just so interesting once you start you just can't stop and you just keep reading more and more of the series. she manages to keep the books interesting while also keeping the characters who they are. I love Eve and Roake they are the most interesting and awsome couple.

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  • Anonymous

    Posted July 25, 2007

    Highly recommended

    The best series I've ever read. Why? She managed to keep it fresh and interesting, especially the relationship between Roarke and Eve(a very strong character).

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  • Anonymous

    Posted June 17, 2006

    Looking forward to the next book

    Excellent

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  • Anonymous

    Posted August 28, 2005

    The greatest series ever!!!!!

    I absolutely love J.D. Robb's In Death Series. I've only started the series, but they are great. I love to read and can't seem to put these books down. They are exciting, adventurous, and are also romantic. Eve and Roarke are amazing together. I absoulutely love Roake and his accent. I can't say enough about these books. I just love them..

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  • Anonymous

    Posted July 26, 2005

    Good Book

    I loved this book, actually I love the whole In Death series. You can see how the characters grow and change. It's great!

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