in Death

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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.

Contents

[edit] Books

  1. Naked in Death (1995, ISBN 0-425-14829-7)
  2. Glory in Death (1995, ISBN 0-425-15098-4)
  3. Immortal in Death (1996, ISBN 0-425-15378-9)
  4. Rapture in Death (1996, ISBN 0-425-15518-8)
  5. Ceremony in Death (1997, ISBN 0-425-15762-8)
  6. Vengeance in Death (1997, ISBN 0-425-16039-4)
  7. Holiday in Death (1999, ISBN 0-425-16371-7)
    "Midnight in Death": Silent Night Anthology (1998, ISBN 0-515-12385-4)
  8. Conspiracy in Death (1999, ISBN 0-425-16813-1)
  9. Loyalty in Death (1999, ISBN 0-425-17140-X)
  10. Witness in Death (2000, ISBN 0-425-17363-1)
  11. Judgement in Death (2000, ISBN 0-425-17630-4)
  12. Betrayal in Death (2001, ISBN 0-425-17857-9)
    "Interlude in Death", Out of this World Anthology (2001, ISBN 0-515-13109-1)
  13. Seduction in Death (2001, ISBN 0-425-18146-4)
  14. Reunion in Death (2002, ISBN 0-425-18397-1)
  15. Purity in Death (2002, ISBN 0-425-18630-X)
  16. Portrait in Death (2003, ISBN 0-425-18903-1)
  17. Imitation in Death (2003, ISBN 0-425-19158-3)
  18. 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
  19. Divided in Death (2004, ISBN 0-399-15154-0)
  20. Visions in Death (2004, ISBN 0-399-15171-0)
  21. Survivor in Death (2005, ISBN 0-399-15208-3)
  22. Origin in Death (2005, ISBN 0-399-15289-X)
  23. Memory in Death (2006, ISBN 0-399-15328-4)
    "Haunted in Death", Bump in the Night Anthology (2006, ISBN 0-515-14117-8)
  24. Born in Death (2006, ISBN 0-399-15347-0)
  25. Innocent in Death (2007, ISBN 0-399-15401-9)
    "Eternity in Death", Dead of Night Anthology (2007, ISBN 0-515-14367-7)
  26. Creation in Death (2007, ISBN 0-399-15436-1)
  27. Strangers in Death (Coming 2008)
    "Ritual in Death", Suite 606 (Coming 2008)
  28. Salvation in Death (Coming 2008)

[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.

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 210, 1980 Derrick Rockman
Georgie Castle Ruger P90
Gerald DeBlass Gunshot suicide
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
Dr. Reena Ott Electricle shock to the throat Police Stunner suicide
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
Judgment in Death Detective Taj Kohli blunt trauma to head metal baseball bat Sergeant Arthur Clooney
Lieutenant Alan Mills cut neck down length wise, disembowelment knife
Captain Boyd Bayliss drowning adhesive tape, bathtub
Lewis unknown drug pressure syringe to heart Unknown female assassin
Clarence Haggerty shot in the head police issued weapon Eve Dallas
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
Ineza Blue
Ten Unknown Women
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 scalpel 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 Maeve 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 tranquilized 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 poison, drowned surgical paralytic substance
Eternity in Death Gregor Pensky (pre-book) Exsanguination from twin puncture wounds in neck artificial vampire fangs Dorian Vadim
Tiara Kent
Allesseria Carter
Creation in Death Edwina Spring (pre-book) Torture, Exsanguination by cut wrist Tortured with knife, blow torch, drugs, needles, and dry ice Robert Lowell Sr.
Corrine Dagby (pre-book) Tortured, Exsanguination by cut wrist Tortured with knife, blow torch, drugs, needles, and dry ice Robert Lowell Jr.
Melissa Congress (pre-book)
Anise Waters (pre-book)
Joley Weitz (pre-book)
Eighteen Unknown Women (pre-book)
Sarifina York
Gia Rossi

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.

[edit] See also

In Death (technology)

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