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Description
Summer, 2059. A man wearing a cape and a top hat approaches a prostitute on a dark, New York City street. Minutes later, the woman is dead. Left at the scene is a letter addressed to Lieutenant Eve Dallas, inviting her to play his game and unveil his identity. He signs it, "Jack."
Now Dallas is in pursuit of a murderer who knows as much about the history of serial killers as she does. He has studied the most notorious and the most vicious slayings in modern times. But he also wants to make his own mark. He has chosen his victim: Eve Dallas. And all Eve knows is that he plans to mimic the most infamous murderers of all ? starting with Jack the Ripper...
"Robb's energetic prose and hard-edged dialogue will keep readers engrossed." ?Publishers Weekly
The seventeenth in Robb's futuristic detective series featuring Police Lieutenant Eve Dallas sends her on a mission to stop a killer who is imitating famous serial killers of the past. Eve is brought into the case when a Jack-the-Ripper-style murder is accompanied by a note addressed to her on distinctive, costly stationery. Narrator Susan Ericksen has Eve's number. Through her voice she depicts Eve's toughness, strength, and insecurities. She also nails Peabody, Eve's able assistant and Peabody's love interest, a fellow cop with a decided surfer dude inflection. The entire cast of characters is given distinctive and believable voices in this fast-moving mystery. D.T.H. (c) AudioFile 2004, Portland, Maine
About the Author
Nora Roberts is the number-one New York Times-bestselling author of more than 150 novels, including High Noon, Angels Fall, Blue Smoke, and Northern Lights. She is also the author of the bestselling futuristic suspense series written under the pen name J. D. Robb. There are more than 280 million copies of her books in print.
