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Product Identifiers
PublisherThorndike Press
ISBN-101410415414
ISBN-139781410415417
eBay Product ID (ePID)71992656
Product Key Features
Book TitleRapture in Death
Number of Pages468 Pages
LanguageEnglish
TopicMystery & Detective / Police Procedural, Mystery & Detective / Women Sleuths, Mystery & Detective / General
Publication Year2009
FeaturesLarge Type
GenreFiction
AuthorJ. D. Robb
Book SeriesIn Death Ser.
FormatHardcover
Dimensions
Item Height1.1 in
Item Length8.5 in
Item Width5.5 in
Additional Product Features
Intended AudienceTrade
Dewey Edition21
Dewey Decimal813.5/4
Edition DescriptionLarge Type / large print edition
SynopsisThe year is 2056. mood-altering drugs are legal, prostitution is licensed, virtual-reality games have replaced TV sets for entertainment and New York supercop Eve Dallas continues her sleuthing in Robb's fourth installment in the Death series (Naked in Death, Glory in Death, etc.). This time around, Eve has married her soul mate, Roarke, and is caught up in the puzzling suicide of a technician who's been working on Roarke's unfinished space resort. The young tech, Eve learns, had cheerfully hanged himself after a VR trip. Back on Earth, autopsies from two similar suicides reveal a pin-sized burn on the brains of the victims. All clues point to a deadly subliminal message in a VR toy'one that Roarke produces. This is sexy, gritty, richly imagined suspense. The fact that it is written by Nora Roberts under the pseudonym J.D. Robb is a tribute to her versatility., A New York Times Bestselling Author -- First time in large print! They died with smiles on their faces. Three apparent suicides: a brilliant engineer, an infamous lawyer, and a controversial politician. Police lieutenant Eve Dallas found the deaths suspicious. And her instincts paid off when the autopsies revealed small burns on the brains of the victims. Was it a genetic abnormality or a high-tech method of murder? Eve's investigation turned to the provocative world of virtual reality games ...