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New York to Dallas

In Death • Book 33

by J.D. Robb, Susan Ericksen

4.45 Goodreads
(34.8K ratings)

Why You'll Love This

The killer heads straight for the city where Eve's darkest secret is buried — and this time, the case is personal in the most brutal way possible.

  • Great if you want: a procedural thriller that finally cracks open Eve's buried past
  • The experience: relentlessly tense — this one doesn't let you breathe
  • The writing: Robb weaves trauma and forward momentum without letting either slow the other
  • Skip if: you haven't read earlier entries — backstory runs deep here

About This Book

When a predator Eve Dallas helped put away years ago breaks free and heads straight for the city that holds the darkest chapters of her past, the case stops being just another investigation. McQueen isn't simply on the run — he's hunting Eve as surely as she's hunting him, and the ground he's chosen is Dallas, Texas, where Eve's own buried history makes every step feel like walking through a minefield. J.D. Robb has always known how to raise the emotional temperature, but this entry in the In Death series pushes deeper into Eve's origins than most, making the personal and professional collision feel genuinely urgent rather than merely dramatic.

What rewards readers here is the way Robb uses the change of setting to reshape familiar dynamics. Pulling Eve out of New York strips away her home-field advantage, creating a tension that runs beneath every scene. The pacing is relentless without feeling mechanical, and the relationship between Eve and Roarke carries real weight when the stakes turn inward. For longtime series readers, this is one of those installments where the mythology of the character finally catches up to the momentum of the plot.

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