Abandoned in Death

In the latest book In Death by New York Times bestselling author J. D. Robb, homicide investigator Eve Dallas has to go through a complicated family past as a hostage's life is in jeopardy.

On a seat in a playground in New York City, the woman's corpse was discovered early in the morning. She had her makeup done with care, her hair styled perfectly, and she looked clean. However, there were other highly inappropriate things, including the new-looking tattoo and piercings. The clothing was decades old. The lethal injury concealed behind a neck ribbon. And the message, scrawled like a kid in crayon and reading "Bad Mommy."

Eve Dallas goes to the finest profiler in the police, who validates what appears evident to her: they are dealing with a murderer who experienced trauma as a child—a circumstance Eve is all too acquainted with. However, the evidence points to a culprit who would be in his or her sixties, and no prior crimes with a comparable MO have been documented. What seems to be the catalyst that caused someone to reopen an old hurt and go over the edge?

The clock begins to tick louder when Eve learns that several young ladies who visually like the first victim have disappeared. However, in order to solve this case, she will have to make her way into a secret location with dark lighting and concrete, as well as into the distant past and the icy depths of a broken psyche.