Her need to serve and protect comes through in every book, but the underlying impetus for this is best understood by reading this series in order. Eve is definitely a compelling and three-dimensional character. Time spent with Eve, Roarke, and Eve’s colleagues is always entertaining. It turns out that the site is one Eve’s husband, Roarke, has purchased and is starting to develop. While working the crime scene, Eve is called away, to a nearby building site where bones decades old have been found.

Joined by her partner, Detective Delia Peabody, they find the body of a woman without a fixed address who kept the local cops informed of any rule violations she witnessed on the street. This story starts with our protagonist, Lieutenant Eve Dallas of the NYC police department, being called to a construction site crime scene. What happens when the past and the present collide? Robb (pseudonym for Nora Roberts) brings murder, romance and suspense to a well-written futuristic police procedural set in New York City during the spring of 2061. Now Eve must enter a complex world of real estate development, family history, shady deals, and shocking secrets to find justice for two women whose lives were thrown away…įorgotten in Death by J. She isn’t happy when she realizes that the scene of the crime belongs to her husband, Roarke―not that it should surprise her, since the Irish billionaire owns a good chunk of New York. Then Eve is summoned away to a nearby building site to view more remains―in this case decades old, adorned with gold jewelry and fine clothing―unearthed by recent construction work. But the notebook where she scribbled her intel on litterers and other such offenders is nowhere to be found. The body was left in a dumpster like so much trash, the victim a woman of no fixed address, known for offering paper flowers in return for spare change―and for keeping the cops informed of any infractions she witnessed on the street.

In the latest novel in the #1 New York Times bestselling series, homicide detective Eve Dallas sifts through the wreckage of the past to find a killer.

Forgotten in Death by J.D. Robb