In Death
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- The correct title of this article is …in Death. The initial letter is shown capitalized due to technical restrictions.
The …in Death series, written by Nora Roberts under her pseudonym J.D. Robb, features NYPSD ('New York City Police and Security Department') Lieutenant Eve Dallas and her husband Roarke and is set in a mid-21st century New York City. The stories also includes other characters, including Captain Ryan Feeney, Detective Delia Peabody, Detective Ian McNab and Dr. Charlotte Mira.
The series is ongoing and will go on as long as Roberts desires to write it; however, she has famously stated that the series will never contain one of Eve and Roarke's children, as the series will end with Eve's eventual pregnancy - which is nowhere in sight at the current count.
[edit] Books
- Naked in Death (1995, ISBN 0-425-14829-7)
- Glory in Death (1995, ISBN 0-425-15098-4)
- Immortal in Death (1996, ISBN 0-425-15378-9)
- Rapture in Death (1996, ISBN 0-425-15518-8)
- Ceremony in Death (1997, ISBN 0-425-15762-8)
- Vengeance in Death (1997, ISBN 0-425-16039-4)
- Holiday in Death (1999, ISBN 0-425-16371-7)
- "Midnight in Death": Silent Night Anthology (1998, ISBN 0-515-12385-4)
- Conspiracy in Death (1999, ISBN 0-425-16813-1)
- Loyalty in Death (1999, ISBN 0-425-17140-X)
- Witness in Death (2000, ISBN 0-425-17363-1)
- Judgement in Death (2000, ISBN 0-425-17630-4)
- Betrayal in Death (2001, ISBN 0-425-17857-9)
- "Interlude in Death", Out of this World Anthology (2001, ISBN 0-515-13109-1)
- Seduction in Death (2001, ISBN 0-425-18146-4)
- Reunion in Death (2002, ISBN 0-425-18397-1)
- Purity in Death (2002, ISBN 0-425-18630-X)
- Portrait in Death (2003, ISBN 0-425-18903-1)
- Imitation in Death (2003, ISBN 0-425-19158-3)
- Remember When (2003 with Nora Roberts, ISBN 0-399-15106-0)
- Two-part book: the first part is a present-day Nora Roberts story which sets up the back story for the second part, which features Eve Dallas
- Divided in Death (2004, ISBN 0-399-15154-0)
- Visions in Death (2004, ISBN 0-399-15171-0)
- Survivor in Death (2005, ISBN 0-399-15208-3)
- Origin in Death (2005, ISBN 0-399-15289-X)
- Memory in Death (2006, ISBN 0-399-15328-4)
- "Haunted in Death", Bump in the Night Anthology (2006, ISBN 0-515-14117-8)
- Born in Death (2006, ISBN 0-399-15347-0)
- Innocent in Death (Coming February 20, 2007)
[edit] Deaths
Below are all deaths - murder victims, murder investigations, and others - that occur in the span of the In Death books, including weapon, cause of death, and the perpetrator. This list does not include any attacks on persons that do not result in death.
Spoiler warning: Plot and/or ending details follow.
| Book | Victim | Cause of Death | Weapon | Perpetrator |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Naked in Death | Sharon DeBlass | shot in head, chest and groin | Smith & Wesson, model 10 | Gerald DeBlass |
| Lola Starr (Alice Williams) | Sig 2-10, 1980 | Derrick Rockman | ||
| Georgie Castle | Ruger P-90 | |||
| Glory in Death | Cicely Towers | slash across throat | long-handled knife | C. J. Morse |
| Yvonne Metcalf | ||||
| Louise Kirski | ||||
| Immortal in Death | Boomer (Carter Johannsen) | strangulation & blunt trauma | thin baseball bat | Lt. Jake Casto |
| Pandora | excessive trauma | cane | ||
| Cockroach (Lament Ro) | blunt trauma to the head | iron pipe | ||
| Jerry Fitzgerald | drug overdose | Immortality, morphine and Zeus | ||
| Rapture in Death | Drew Mathias | hanging | suicide by mind control via virtual reality | Dr. Reeanna Ott |
| S. T. Fitzhugh | slashed wrists | |||
| Senator Pearly | jumping | |||
| Cerise Devane | ||||
| Ceremony in Death | Det. Sgt. Frank Wojinsky | cardiac arrest by drugs | Digitalis and Zeus | Selina Cross & Alban |
| Alice Lingstrom | chased into street and hit by car | paranoia | ||
| Lobar (Robert Allen Mathias) | removal of heart | athame | ||
| Thomas Wineburg | stabbed in heart | |||
| Louis Trivane | stabbed in throat & disembowelment | Mirium Hopkins | ||
| Selina Cross | slashed throat | Alban | ||
| Alban | stabbed in heart | Jamie Lingstrom | ||
| Vengeance in Death | Thomas X. Brennen | disembowelment, amputation | laser scapel | Liam Calhoun |
| Shawn Conroy | exsanguination | |||
| Jennie O'Leary | slow hanging | |||
| Liam Calhoun | overload of nervous system | stunner | Roarke | |
| Holiday in Death | Marianna Hawley | rape, sodomy, strangulation | Christmas garland | Simon |
| Sarabeth Greenbalm | ||||
| Donnie Ray Michael | ||||
| Brent Holloway | ||||
| Midnight in Death | Harold Wainger | torture and slow strangulation | nylon strapping cord | David Palmer |
| APA Stephanie Ring | ||||
| Carl Neissan | ||||
| Conspiracy in Death | Snooks (Samuel Petrinsky) | removal of heart | surgical instruments | Dr. Michael Waverly |
| Erin Spindler | removal of kidneys | |||
| Jilessa Brown | removal of liver | |||
| Officer Ellen Bowers | blunt trauma | metal pipe | ||
| Dr. Tia Wo | injection of barbiturates | drug overdose | ||
| Jan the nurse | blunt trauma to head, single blow | |||
| Dr. Westley Friend (pre-book) | injection of barbiturates | drug overdose | ||
| Loyalty in Death | J. Clarence Branson | drilled to the wall through the heart | Branson 8000 drill | Lisbeth Cooke |
| Colonel Howard Bassi (Fixer) | beaten and drowned in river | droids | Clarissa Branson | |
| Lieutenant Anne Malloy | bomb detonation in Madison Square Garden | terrorist bomb | ||
| unlisted civilians | ||||
| B. Donald Branson | falls through window of Statue of Liberty | Roarke | ||
| Clarissa Branson (Charlotte Rowan) | jumps through window of Statue of Liberty | suicide | ||
| Witness in Death | Richard Draco | stabbed through heart during theatrical Witness for the Prosecution | butcher knife | Areena Mansfield |
| Linus Quim | coerced suicide | hanging | ||
| Betrayal in Death | Darlene French | raped, beaten and strangled | two-foot sterling silver wire | Sylvester Yost |
| Jonah Talbot | raped and strangled | |||
| Sylvester Yost | slashed across throat | mug shard | suicide | |
| Mick Connelly | stabbed in stomach | knife | Gerade Hinrick | |
| Interlude in Death | Reginald Weeks | bludgeoned to death | metal bat | Bryson Hayes |
| Zita Vinter | suicide drugs | drugged in wine | ||
| former Commander Douglas Skinner | suicide | drugs | voluntary suicide | |
| Seduction in Death | Bryna Bankhead | rape and drug overdose | rape drugs Whore & Rabbit | Kevin Morano |
| Grace Lutz | Lucias Dunwood | |||
| Dr. Theodore McNamara | bludgeoning, drowning | lamp | Lucias Dunwood & Kevin Morano | |
| Kevin Morano | poisoned | unidentified drug | Lucias Dunwood | |
| Lucius Dunwood | suicide | |||
| Reunion in Death | Marsha Stibbs | hit to the head | glass table | Maureen Brighton |
| Walter C. Pettibone | poisoned | cyanide | Julianna Dunne | |
| Henry Mouton | ||||
| Eli Young | ||||
| Spencer Campbell | ||||
| Purity in Death | Ralph Wooster | bludgeoned | baseball bat | Louis K. Cogburn |
| Louis K. Cogburn | police stunner(s) | light & sound frequencies, severe intercranial pressure driving victim to suicide | The Purity Seekers | |
| Detective Kevin Holloway | ||||
| Chadwick Fitzhugh | slit own throat | |||
| Mary Ellen George | hanged self | |||
| Nick Greene | stabbed self in heart | |||
| Hannah Wade | stabbed repeatedly | kitchen knife | Nick Greene | |
| Dru Geller | light & sound frequencies | The Purity Seekers | ||
| Portrait in Death | Rachel Howard | stabbed through heart | stiletto | Gerald Stevenson (Steve Audrey) |
| Kenby Sulu | ||||
| Alicia Dilbert | ||||
| Imitation in Death | Jacie Wooton | killed à la Jack the Ripper | Niles Renquist | |
| Lois Gregg | killed à la Boston Strangler | |||
| Remember When | Andrea Jacobs | slash across throat | stiletto | Trevor Whittier |
| Tina Cobb | severe trauma to head, torso, set on fire | baton | ||
| Divided in Death | Felicity Kade | stunned, fourteen stab wounds to chest | kitchen knife | Blair Bissel |
| Carter Bissel | stunned, eighteen stab wounds to chest | |||
| Chloe McCoy | suicide pills | drugged | ||
| Joseph Powell | laser to carotid artery | military laser | ||
| Visions in Death | Elisa Maplewood | beating, rape, strangulation, removal of eyes | red ribbon | John Blue |
| Lily Napier | ||||
| Annalisa Sommers | Celina Sanchez | |||
| Marjorie Kates | John Blue | |||
| Breen Merriweather | ||||
| Survivor in Death | Grant Swisher | slash across throat | combat knife | Coporal Jilly Isenberry, Sergeant Roger Kirkendall, Sergeant Isaac Clinton |
| Keelie Swisher | ||||
| Coyle Swisher | ||||
| Linnie Dyson | ||||
| Meredith Newman | ||||
| Detective Owen Knight | ||||
| Detective James Preston | ||||
| Corporal Jilly Isenberry | broken neck | fall down stairs | Eve Dallas | |
| Origin in Death | Dr. Wilfred B. Icove | stabbed in chest | scapel | Deena Flavia |
| Dr. Wilfred Icove, Jr. | Avril Icove | |||
| Evelyn Samuels | Deena Flavia | |||
| Deena Flavia | laser blast | laser | Jonah Delacourt Wilson (clone) | |
| Dr. Wilfred B. Icove (clone) | ||||
| Jonah Delacourt Wilson (clone) | Eve Dallas and Roarke | |||
| Memory in Death | Trudy Lombard | fractured skull by multiple blows | sap | Zana Lombard (Marnie Ralston) |
| Haunted in Death | Radcliff C. Hopkins | bullets to torso, arm, and head | 9mm Smith & Wesson | Mauve Buchanan |
| Bobbie Bray | single bullet to head | Hop Hopkins | ||
| Born in Death | Sophia Belego (pre-book) | unknown | unknown | Winfield Chase |
| Emily Jones (pre-book) | head trauma | |||
| Natalie Copperfield | strangulation after torture | manual | ||
| Bick Byson | ||||
| Randall Sloan | hanging | tranqed then hanged | ||
| Innocent in Death | Trevor Straffo (pre-book) | broken neck, head trauma | push down stairs | Rayleen Straffo |
| Adele Versy (pre-book) | overdose | surgical paralytic substance | ||
| Craig Foster | poisoned | ricin | ||
| Reed Williams | paralyzed by poisoned, drowned | surgical paralytic substance
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Note: "stunner" and "laser" are both terms used interchangeably for the fictional weapons that the NYPSD carry in the In Death books; they release a strong electrical, laser-like stun that can do anything from incapacitating or killing the victim.
Spoilers end here.
