num_pages: 356
description: Homicide detective Eve Dallas must untangle a twisted family history while a hostages life hangs in the balancein the new In Death novel by #1 New York Times bestselling J. D. Robb.The womans body was found on a bench in a New York City playground. She was clean her hair neatly arranged her makeup carefully applied. But other things were very wronglike the tattoo and piercings clearly new. The clothes decades out of date. The fatal wound hidden beneath a ribbon around her neck. And the note: Bad Mommy written in crayon as if by a child.It seems clear the killers childhood was traumatica situation Eve is all too familiar with herself. Yet the clues point to a perpetrator whod be around sixty and there are no records of old crimes with a similar MO. What was the trigger that apparently reopened such an old wound and sent someone over the edge? When Eve learns that other young women have recently vanished the case grows even more urgentand to solve it shell need to find her way into a hidden place of dim light and concrete into the distant past and into the depths of a shattered mind.
language: English
title: Abandoned in Death
publisher: St. Martin's Press