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Born in Death
Born in Death
Born in Death
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Born in Death

Written by J. D. Robb

Narrated by Susan Ericksen

Rating: 4.5 out of 5 stars

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Lieutenant Eve Dallas struggles with the end—and the beginning—of life in this thriller in the #1 New York Times bestselling In Death series.

Just as Eve Dallas begins to investigate the grisly double homicide of two young lovers—both employees of the same prestigious accounting firm—her friend Mavis need a favor. One of the moms-to-be in Mavis’s birthing class has gone missing. Normally, such a case would be turned over to Missing Persons. But Mavis wants no one else on the job—and Eve can’t say no.

Now Eve’s trying to track down the missing woman, while simultaneously unearthing the deals and double-crosses hidden in the files of some of the city’s richest and most secretive citizens, in a race against this particularly vicious killer. Luckily, her multimillionaire husband Roarke’s expertise comes in handy with the number crunching. But as he mines the crucial data that will break the case wide open, Eve faces an all too real danger in the world of flesh and blood.

LanguageEnglish
Release dateNov 7, 2006
ISBN9781423304814
Born in Death
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J. D. Robb

J.D. Robb is the pseudonym for #1 New York Times bestselling author Nora Roberts. She is the author of over two hundred novels, including the futuristic suspense In Death series. There are more than five hundred million copies of her books in print.

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  • Rating: 5 out of 5 stars
    5/5
    Well this began as double murdered but as the investigation goes on they began to learn about books been cooked by some accounting experts with big names. The crime opens up to a more deeper crimes against humanity and pregnant women who were kidnapped and murdered for their babies. In different parts of European countries as the case went more killings which led to the a much bigger name.
    Team Eve Dalles were able to save the last victim and her baby.
  • Rating: 4 out of 5 stars
    4/5
    Lieutenant Eve Dallas is a rock solid homicide cop any time of the day or night. Give her a childbirth class and watch her squirm in horrified terror. That is exactly what she is doing, along with Roarke, as Born in Death begins. Mavis and her partner, Leonardo, are about to have the long awaited baby, and Dallas is fulfilling her promise to her best friend. Once the hideous class is over, the four of them will go out to eat. They soon to be parents bring along a friend of theirs, Tandy Willowby. Like Mavis, she is not that far out from giving birth. She is to be a single mom, having relocated from London. She is pretty much alone in NYC in January 2060 and so Mavis and Leonardo are helping her as much as she will allow. Tandy has a job at the White Stork, which is a baby boutique. Tandy is due the week before Mavis is due and that means both ladies are due very soon.Tandy going missing will be one of two cases that propel this book.The other involves the brutal murder of Natalie Copperfield. She was found by her sister, Palma Copperfield, when she arrived to stay with her. Natalie was not just murdered. She was tortured first. Some items have also clearly been stolen from her apartment. The deceased worked for the accounting firm of Sloan, Myers, and Kraus. Whether her job, her boyfriend, or something else had a role in her death is yet to be determined.What follows is a complicated and fast moving read where the cases and others drive the action forward at a steady clip. While all the usual caveats apply-especially head hopping- the story soon pulls the reader in and one ignores the flaws as the tale unfolds. Born in Death is another good read.My reading copy came in digital format by way of the OverDrive/Libby app and the Dallas Public Library System.Kevin R. Tipple ©2023
  • Rating: 5 out of 5 stars
    5/5
    Mavis is getting ready to have her baby which involves Eve and Roarke in childbirth classes because she's asked them to be her coaches. Both would much rather face down a crazed, armed killer than be there when Mavis gives birth.Eve's new cases concern a woman and man who were tortured and murdered in their homes. Since both worked for an accounting firm, she's like Roarke's financial expertise but optics are bad because he could potentially use what he learns to enhance his own business. There is some conflict there between Roarke and the NYPSD.Then a pregnant friend of Mavis's goes missing and Mavis begs Eve to find her. Soon the two cases are found to be parts of a whole big conspiracy and Eve has a deadline to find the friend before it is too late to save her and her baby.And she and Roarke don't escape being there when both the friend and Mavis go into labor and deliver their babies.
  • Rating: 3 out of 5 stars
    3/5
    I started this book over about 6 times. I just could not get into it
  • Rating: 5 out of 5 stars
    5/5
    As Mavis says, Eve and Roarke are totally mags! What a twisted mess with business and babies. Sad that people had to die to get someone, Eve, to find who the killer/s for those who can’t speak for themselves anymore. Then there was those funny moments with Eve and Roarke where they’re weak stomachs can’t handle birthing. It’s just too funny reading their banter between each other. I so enjoyed this book and all the characters too.
  • Rating: 2 out of 5 stars
    2/5
    It's a crime story set in the future. With steaming sexscenes. And a double-birth for an ending.
  • Rating: 5 out of 5 stars
    5/5
    SUPER HAPPY THE UNABRIGED ONES CAME OUT !! LOVE THIS SERIES
  • Rating: 5 out of 5 stars
    5/5
    One of my favorites of this series. This story was a page turner for me.
  • Rating: 5 out of 5 stars
    5/5
    Eve was running 2 cases at the same time,one murder,one for Mavis as her friend is missing. Mavis is getting closer to delivering
  • Rating: 5 out of 5 stars
    5/5
    This kept me reading non stop. There are funny and touching moments as well as brutal murders of two young engaged couple.
  • Rating: 5 out of 5 stars
    5/5
    Audiobook is the way to go! Read and be productive; what's not to love?
  • Rating: 5 out of 5 stars
    5/5
    This book was so far my Favorite of the series. I have listened to thirty five books and I love the intrigue, the drama and the ending was amazing. Thanks for the series.
  • Rating: 3 out of 5 stars
    3/5
    Two cases overlapping and a baby shower; Eve Dallas is running on coffee, candy, and anger.

    Quite a lot happens in this book, including the birth of Mavis and Leonardo’s baby, but not much action. Even with the extra dose of Baxter and Trueheart I was a little bored.

    And I’m getting tired of Eve getting her way every damn time. That’s not a relationship, that’s the help.
  • Rating: 5 out of 5 stars
    5/5
    Simply brilliant story telling
    The whole time I listened to this story, it kept my attention.
    It was fun!thanks
  • Rating: 5 out of 5 stars
    5/5
    Nora Roberts is one of the best. You never can out-guess Eve Dallas, who is always a team player.






  • Rating: 5 out of 5 stars
    5/5
    While investigating the grisly murders of Natalie Copperfield and Bick Byson, New York Police and Security Department homicide detective Eve Dallas is putting together a baby shower for her friend, Mavis. The shower comes off as planned, but Mavis’s friend and fellow expectant mother Tandy Willowby, doesn’t show up for the festivities and Mavis asks Eve to find her. Can Eve solve the murder of the two accountant firm employees while searching for Tandy and honoring her promise to be with Mavis when her baby is born?In this twenty-third installment of the “In Death” series, a strong sense of place anchors a narrative filled with well-defined, relatable characters. New readers will appreciate the backstory woven into the telling of the tale. Witty repartee between Eve and Summerset lightens the gruesomeness of the murder investigation even though the case is almost secondary to the often-hilarious escapades surrounding Mavis’s pregnancy. All the expected characters make an appearance, but the events surrounding the birth of Mavis’s Little One definitely take center stage. The ever-evolving relationships, the camaraderie, the angst, the silliness that serves as a counterpoint to the gritty murders . . . all combine to create a can’t-put-it-down narrative fans of the series won’t want to miss.Highly recommended.
  • Rating: 3 out of 5 stars
    3/5
    Birth and Death--the phrase always makes me think of a soap opera opening (Days of Our Lives, I think). WARNING: SPOILERS POSSIBLE READ AT YOUR OWN DISCRETION:***Mavis and Tawny are pregnant. Dallas has to give Mavis a baby shower--and she foolishly thinks all she has to do is call the caterer! Thank goodness for Delia Peabody! Dallas can stare down death and the scariest of bad guys--but birth? That scares her. It's a bit of comedy in the homicide laden story. Another bit of comedy comes in Dallas' interactions with Summerset. The death part starts with two bodies--the girl is found first and when they go to notify her fiance, he is found dead also. While investigating that, Tawny disappears and Mavis begs Dallas to take that case on too. The tale is convoluted and ends up involving an adoption agency, doctors, a foundation, lawyers, and an accounting firm--all threads that need to be unraveled and woven to make a whole case.It was good to see that Trueheart has gotten in with Feeney. I liked him in an earlier book in the series but then didn't see his name come up for a bit and wondered what had happened to him.
  • Rating: 4 out of 5 stars
    4/5
    Born in Death
    4 Stars

    Whether one loves or hates her writing style, Nora Roberts, aka J. D. Robb, has hit on a winning formula with her In Death books and this installment is no exception.

    While the murder mystery and abduction storylines are rather predictable (it is easy to guess both the culprits and the motives relatively early), they, nevertheless, make for gripping reading and the resolution is exciting and satisfying.

    The interactions between the characters are fantastic as always, especially the snarky banter between Eve and Summerset. That said, this book demonstrates once again why Mavis is not a favorite of mine as her over the top drama continues to grate on the nerves. Oh well, its impossible to like all the characters all the time ...

    All in all, I'm now at the halfway mark through the series and still going strong. I actually can't believe I've made it this far :)
  • Rating: 5 out of 5 stars
    5/5
    While Dallas has two murders in an accounting firm to deal with, Mavis comes to her about a missing friend who is in her childbirth class. Eva takes on the case to keep Mavis calm and happy.I liked this story. I liked seeing Eve and Roarke freaked out about Mavis and her impending childbirth. I liked how Eve feels pressured into doing the right things for Mavis but lets Peabody do the actual work. Though dealing with death and kidnapping, I liked the lightheartedness of the impending baby stuff.
  • Rating: 5 out of 5 stars
    5/5
    A young pregnant woman goes missing, a couple end up dead and Eve Dallas is on the case. Somehow could they end up connected is beyond belief.
  • Rating: 4 out of 5 stars
    4/5
    I do enjoy this series in audiobook form listening to Rourke's Irish brogue. Eve is investigating a double homicide of engaged couple who work at an investment company while going to Lamaze classes for her friend Mavis. Mavis has befriended a woman who is alone at the classes who has gone missing. She enlists Eve's help in finding Tandy even though Eve tries to tell her that missing persons isn't her area but Mavis, nine months and emotional, insists and Eve can't bear to see her friend so upset. With the help of her team they clear up the cases just in time for Mavis to go into labor and rush her to the "birthing center" in a comical delivery.
  • Rating: 5 out of 5 stars
    5/5
    A prestigious accounting firm is at the heart of a double murder investigation as Lt. Eve Dallas searches the deals of some of the richest and the most secretive citizens. Eve soon finds that the murders are tied to something much worse than money laundering. Some very nice surprises are in store for the reader.
  • Rating: 5 out of 5 stars
    5/5
    Continuing in my quest to catch up on the J.D. Robb/Eve Dallas series of books, this one was cool. Two young accountants - a couple with the future ahead of them - are murdered. Dallas does what she always does - sets out to find who and why. And the why is where it gets interesting.

    In the meantime, Mavis is about to pop, so you get to watch Dallas and Roarke get all freaked out about the birthing classes and then try to deal with their fear of becoming parents because they had such lousy childhoods. Dallas is "planning" the baby shower. Hahaha... yeah, that part alone was worth the price of admission.

    All in all, very good book.
  • Rating: 5 out of 5 stars
    5/5
    Loved this! This story was a little more on the personal side for Eve and specially Mavis and it showed how deep their relationship runs. The rest of the gang was, as always, just as good to read and to see how they interact together; Roarke was his charming and yummy self, but with a newscared out of his mind facet to him that just added to how good the story was and how these characters just keep developing as the story and the series goes. Incredible!
  • Rating: 5 out of 5 stars
    5/5
    This may be my favorite In Death book yet! It's a Mavis-heavy book with lots of love towards Eve's girlfriends. The mystery was unique and the dialogue was entertaining. This series is super addictive.
  • Rating: 5 out of 5 stars
    5/5
    I love this series. This was a really good one too. It made me cry at the end. I'm glad that I have so many more books about these characters to look forward to devouring!
  • Rating: 2 out of 5 stars
    2/5
    This is the first J.D. Robb book that I read, and I came away largely unimpressed. Set in a futuristic New York City, detective Eve Dallas starts off helping her friend Mavis as a birthing coach, even though she hates the thoughts of delivering a baby. Why she was there made no sense to me, since Mavis's partner was already there. Mavis has Eve investigate the disappearance of her friend, which coincidentally is connected to the murder case she's investigating. In fact, the level of coincidences in thsi book are down right absurd.There really was not much to like in this novel. The characters were neither compelling nor believable. The melodrama was high, the tension low. As far as the detective and mystery aspect of this book, it fell flat. In reading some of the reviews, apparently one of the drawing points to this series is in getting to know some of the characters, but these characters don't seem worth getting to know. The novel was unimpressive and unispiring. I don't see myself coming back for more.Carl Alves - author of Two For Eternity
  • Rating: 5 out of 5 stars
    5/5
    This would basically make 3 of the Dalls books that Robb/Roberts has written that I've gotten my hands on and read. I'm reading the series way out of order, but they are still excellent.Dalls catches a murder case of a young accountant at a big NY firm with international clients. First she is found dead. Then, so is her future fiancee, both murdered in their apartments, same night, similar MO's. As her investgation goes long, her reguilar life is complicated and to Dallas, far more frightening. One of her best frineds, Mavis, is pregnant, and Dallas and Rouarke are her labor coaches. Children are bad enough for Dalls, but pregnant women seem to be even worse. They meet a friend of Mavis, Tiffany, who si pregnant was well, but doing it all on her own, having moved to NY from England.Dallas' investigation points towards a multinational foundation headed by a mother son team, who Dallas' murder victim seems to have found large sums of hidden cash being funneled and laundered into some of the employee's pockets at the firm. As Dallas closes in, Tiffany goes missing. Now with two crises on her hands, Dallas seems to be runnign out of time. Can she wrap up both investigations, while havng to deal with her friend's immenent birth-giving?
  • Rating: 3 out of 5 stars
    3/5
    The first I have read of these since futuristic isn't usually of interest to me but its completely incidental to this story so I plan to try a few others. I liked the main characters of Eve and Roarke, the relationship rings true as does their relationships with the other characters. I particulary liked Eve's character - strong, smart, no bs but also cares about her friends and her job. She is easy to visualise.Each mystery was intriguing -the eventual dovetailing of the two was a bit dissapointing though. In all it was entertaining, well paced and I look forward to reading others in the series
  • Rating: 3 out of 5 stars
    3/5
    An Okay Read. I have enjoyed most of J.D.Robb's mysteries, but I was a bit disappointed in this novel. I did enjoy Mavis and the birth of her child. I thought the scene had a humorous touch which was refreshing. I thought the plot for the most part was weak. Some parts held my attention, but overall I thought it could have been developed better. I'll probably buy Nora's next novel with a view towards it being a better than "Born in Death". I hope so.