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In a New York City fifty years in the future, Detective Eve Dallas tracks down those who break the law — including the ones sworn to uphold it. Eve Dallas and her partner, Peabody, are following up on a brutal, senseless crime — an elderly grocery owner killed by three stoned punks for nothing more than kicks and snacks. And for the first time, Peabody is primary detective on the case, which means she has to get used to a new level of authority and responsibility. Good thing she learned the ropes from a master like Eve. But after rounding up the perps, Peabody stumbles upon a much trickier situation.

It was one of Eve Dallas’s earliest takedowns, back in her uniform days. A monster named Isaac McQueen had been abducting young victims and leaving them scarred in both mind and body. Thanks to Eve, he wound up where he belonged, removed from civilized society in Rikers. But he’s not behind bars anymore. After his escape, McQueen has two things in mind. One is to take up where he left off, preying on the young and innocent - when necessary, with the help of a female partner all too - willing to be manipulated and to aid and abet his crimes.

Abridged edition: Eve Dallas returns to face her most ingenious foe - a "secret admirer" who taunts her with letters... and kills without mercy....

On a chilly February night, during a screening of Psycho in midtown, someone sunk an ice pick into the back of Chanel Rylan's neck, then disappeared quietly into the crowds of drunks and tourists in Times Square. To Chanel's best friend, who had just slipped out of the theater for a moment to take a call, it felt as unreal as the ancient black-and-white movie up on the screen. But Chanel's blood ran red, and her death was anything but fictional.

It was just another after-work happy-hour bar downtown, where business professionals unwound with a few drinks, complained about the boss, maybe hooked up with someone for the night. Until something went terribly wrong. At first it was just a friction in the air. The noise intensified. The crowd seemed oppressive. Some sharp words were exchanged; some pushing and shoving. Then the madness descended. And after 12 minutes of chaos and violence, 80 people lay dead. Eve Dallas is trying to sort out the inexplicable events. Surviving witnesses talk about seeing things - monsters and swarms of bees....

The chic Manhattan nightspot Du Vin is not the kind of place Eve Dallas would usually patronize, and it's not the kind of bar where a lot of blood gets spilled. But that's exactly what happens one cold February evening.

The shots came quickly, silently, and with deadly accuracy. Within seconds, three people were dead at Central Park's ice skating rink. The victims: a talented young skater, a doctor, and a teacher. As random as random can be. Eve Dallas has seen a lot of killers during her time with the NYPSD, but never one like this. After reviewing security videos, it becomes clear that the victims were killed by a sniper firing a tactical laser rifle, who could have been miles away when the trigger was pulled.

After a party in New York, Lieutenant Eve Dallas rides home with her billionaire husband, Roarke, happy to be done with cocktails and small talk. After another party, not far away, a woman retires to her bedroom with her husband - and walks into a brutal nightmare. Their paths are about to collide....

Kinderarzt Kent Abner bekommt ungewöhnliche Post: ein goldenes Ei. Als er das billig wirkende Objekt öffnet, entweichen tödliche Gase, die ihn auf der Stelle umbringen. Eve Dallas und ihr Team nehmen umgehend die Ermittlungen auf. Die erweisen sich als kompliziert: Das Opfer war äußerst beliebt und wohl beleumundet, auch weil er sich so kompromisslos für seine jungen Patienten einsetzte. Dann stirbt ein zweiter Mensch durch ein tödliches Ei – und Eve Dallas muss sich fragen, ob sie es mit einem Verrückten zu tun hat oder ob die beiden Toten doch mehr verbindet, als es scheint.

On Manhattan’s East Side a woman lies dead at the bottom of the stairs, stripped of all her valuables. Most cops might call it a mugging gone wrong, but Lieutenant Eve Dallas knows better. A well-off accountant and a beloved wife and mother, Marta Dickenson doesn’t seem the type to be on anyone’s hit list. But when Eve and her partner, Peabody, find blood inside the building, the lieutenant knows Marta’s murder was the work of a killer who’s trained, but not professional or smart enough to remove all the evidence.

When a murder disrupts the Irish vacation she is taking with her husband, Roarke, Eve realizes that no place is safe - not an Irish wood or the streets of the manic city she calls home. But nothing prepares her for what she discovers upon her return to the cop shop in New York City.

Eve Dallas has solved a lot of high-profile murders for the NYPSD and gotten a lot of media. She - and her billionaire husband - are getting accustomed to being objects of attention, of gossip, of speculation. But now Eve has become the object of one person's obsession. Someone who finds her extraordinary, and thinks about her every hour of every day. Who believes the two of them have a special relationship. Who would kill for her - again and again....

In a decrepit and long-empty New York building, a man begins the demolition process by swinging a sledgehammer into a wall. When the dust clears, he finds two skeletons wrapped in plastic behind it. The man is Lieutenant Eve Dallas’s billionaire husband, Roarke, and he summons her immediately. His latest real estate project is going to be on hold for a while, because by the time Eve and her crew are finished searching the premises, there are 12 murders to be solved.

Lieutenant Eve Dallas has plenty to be grateful for this season. Hosting Roarke’s big Irish family for the holiday may be challenging, but it’s a joyful improvement on her own dark childhood. Other couples aren’t as lucky as Eve and Roarke. The Reinholds, for example, are lying in their home stabbed and bludgeoned almost beyond recognition. Those who knew them are stunned - and heartbroken by the evidence that they were murdered by their own son. Jerry hadn’t made a great impression on the bosses who fired him or the girlfriend who dumped him - but they didn’t think he was capable of this.

Er durchstreift die Straßen von New York auf der Suche nach den Ärmsten der Armen und tötet sie mit der Präzision eines Chirurgen. Seine Opfer: die Obdachlosen am Straßenrand. Und immer fehlt den Opfern ein Organ. Selbst eine abgebrühte Polizistin wie Lieutenant Eve Dallas ist über diesen Fall entsetzt. Doch sie ermittelt nach allen Regeln der Kunst, bis mitten in dem hochgefährlichen Katz-und-Maus-Spiel mit dem Killer plötzlich Dallas' Karriere und ihr Leben - in Gefahr ist...

Dennis Mira just had two unpleasant surprises. First he learned that his cousin Edward was secretly meeting with a real estate agent about their late grandfather's magnificent West Village brownstone, despite the promise they both made to keep it in the family. Then, when he went to the house to confront Edward about it, he got a blunt object to the back of the head.

In regengepeitschter Nacht wird eine brutal ermordete junge Frau auf einem einsamen Gehsteig gefunden - und ein zweites Opfer kurz danach in ihrem eigenen Apartment. Die attraktive Eve Dallas, Lieutenant der New Yorker Polizei, entdeckt sofort einen Zusammenhang zwischen diesen Verbrechen. Beide Opfer sind schöne und höchst erfolgreiche Frauen. Ihr glamouröses Leben und ihre Liebesaffären waren Stadtgespräch. Ihre Verbindungen zu den Reichen und Berühmten beschert Eve dann auch eine lange Liste von Verdächtigen - inklusive ihres eigenen Liebhabers...

In den zehn Jahren ihres aufreibenden Berufes als Lieutenant der New Yorker Polizei hat die gewitzte, mutige Eve Dallas viel Schreckliches gesehen und, für eine so junge, schöne Frau wie sie, viel zu viel erlebt. Doch sie weiß, dass sie sich auf eines garantiert verlassen kann: auf ihren Instinkt. Bei der Jagd nach einem grausamen Serienmörder, der New York in lähmende Angst versetzt, gerät sie an den undurchsichtigen irischen Milliardär Roarke. Alle Indizien weisen darauf hin, dass er nicht so unschuldig ist, wie er vorgibt zu sein. Doch wider jede Vernunft sprechen Eves Gefühle eine andere Sprache. Sie lässt sich von einem hinreißenden Mann verführen, von dem sie nichts weiß, außer dass er als Killer verdächtigt wird - und ihr Herz erobert hat...

Vom Jäger zum Gejagten – Eve Dallas muss eine Killerin mit einem ganz besonderen Beuteschema stellen ... Eve Dallas wird zu einem neuen Tatort gerufen. Der Tote ist Nigel McEnroy, ein reicher Unternehmer. Nicht nur in der Geschäftswelt galt er als äußerst skrupellos, er nutzte auch seine Macht und seine Stellung ohne Bedenken, um sich Frauen gefügig zu machen. Nun haben ihn seine Sünden blutig eingeholt, denn zur Tat bekennt sich eine geheimnisvolle Lady Justice.

Ein blutiges Attentat, ein Wettlauf gegen die Zeit und die vermutlich lässigste Ermittlerin von New York – der neue Fall für Detective Eve Dallas aus der Feder von SPIEGEL-Bestsellerautorin J.D. Robb! Ein Selbstmordattentat im Finanzdistrikt – der Attentäter war Marketingchef einer Fluglinie, die vor einer aufsehenerregenden Fusion stand. Lieutenant Eve Dallas vom NYPD findet schnell heraus, dass Paul Rogan nicht freiwillig handelte, sondern durch das Kidnapping von Frau und Kind zum Anschlag gezwungen wurde.