It is 2058, New York City. Technology now completely rules the world, but for New York Detective Eve Dallas, one irresistible impulse still rules the heart: passion...

Eve Dallas is a New York police lieutenant hunting for a ruthless killer. In over ten years on the force, she’s seen it all - and knows her survival depends on her instincts. And she’s going against every warning telling her not to get involved with Roarke, an Irish billionaire - and a suspect in Eve’s murder investigation. But passion and seduction have rules of their own, and it’s up to Eve to take a chance in the arms of a man she knows nothing about - except the addictive hunger of needing his touch.

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Listening Length	10 hours and 17 minutes
Author	J. D. Robb
Narrator	Susan Ericksen
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Audible.com Release Date	May 20, 2008
Publisher	Brilliance Audio
Program Type	Audiobook
Version	Unabridged
Language	English
ASIN	B0019ZWMB0
Best Sellers Rank	#2,394 in Audible Books & Originals (See Top 100 in Audible Books & Originals) #111 in Crime Fiction (Audible Books & Originals) #137 in Mysteries (Audible Books & Originals) #282 in Suspense (Audible Books & Originals)

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n.c.reader

Outstanding

Reviewed in the United States 🇺🇸 on December 31, 2022

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Lost count how many times I’ve reread the “In Death” series, one of the most interesting cast of characters ever presented. Would recommend all in this series to everyone. My sister and I have been reading these for years and exchanging books as gifts. Eve Dallas is like no other, with so many layers of darkness and light. Roarke, with more money and influence than imaginable, and a dark past of his own, is the most unlikely of heroes to fall for a by-the-book futuristic cop.
Once you start you won’t be able to resist buying the next book, and the next….

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Melinda C

Loved it

Reviewed in the United States 🇺🇸 on December 13, 2022

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Murder mysterious aren't my thing but this story had me in its grip within the first few pages.

I'm also not a fan of cop characters. They tend to be tough, hardcore and cold. Eve was pretty much the stereotypical cop but she had a little empathy and enough personality to be likeable.

I was glad the author put a disclaimer at the beginning, explaining how she wrote it in the 90s and thought the future was further away because it helped soften the cringe-factor when they mentioned how advanced things were in 2020 when we're not that advanced. We should be but we're not.

I usually read paranormal but I'll mix things up so I can read at least one more book in this series.

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Shannon M.

SO GOOD

Reviewed in the United States 🇺🇸 on January 9, 2023

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After coming off a couple of not so exciting romance novels this book was such a needed change! The plot started a little slow, but boy did it pick up! I wish the ending was a little different but all in all, a great read! I can’t wait to read more in the series! Detective Eve Dallas has my interest!

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A Good Detective Novel Set In The Future

Reviewed in the United States 🇺🇸 on July 27, 2022

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“Naked in Death” is the first of a series authored by Nora Roberts using the name J D Robb. It is interesting in several different ways. It is set in the middle of the twenty first century. The protagonist is Eve Dallas a homicide detective. The book is of medium length and the narrative is fairly straightforward standard American conversational English. As such it makes a good candidate for an audiobook.

There is a certain amount of graphic violence, obscene street language, and graphic sex activity. I liked the book and am glad that I read it. Another reviewer stated that she did not like reading this novel before sleeping at night. That makes sense to me. There was particularly violent episode that I was reading late at night and had the same thoughts. There are some types of criminal activity that I find completely repugnant.

The author has also written romance novels. Her first romance novel that I am aware of is Irish Thoroughbred. Although the stories are very different, romance versus violent crime, I did recognize some artistic similarities. It occurs to me that Nora Roberts took some artistic ideas from the past and somewhat reshaped them and made use of them in a new crime novel. I am glad that I have read both novels.

From what I have read Nora Roberts is an extremely popular author. I think I can see why. Although I have only read a few of her novels they have a popular feel to them. They sort of remind me of a reading version of prime time television. Personally I would not classify them as high literature.

In summary, I liked this novel as a light, not necessarily fun, reading experience. I would put this in the second tier of literature, good, not great. I am glad to be familiar with the style of Nora Roberts, but for me, although she is successful and extremely popular, her novels are not in the top tier of literature. Thank You for taking the time to read this review.

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LKArgo

Head to the future for mystery and romance

Reviewed in the United States 🇺🇸 on December 29, 2022

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I love this series. I enjoy re-reading them once in a while. The mysteries are good and am sometimes surprised at the guilty person. I love the imagination of the author on what is going on in the future and how the Eve Dallas world works. Thank you, JD Robb.

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barbieheart

Romance and murder.

Reviewed in the United States 🇺🇸 on January 3, 2023

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This engaging book is the first in a very extensive series of about 60 books. We follow Eve and Roarke, who are immersed in violence, mystery and intense sexual chemistry. There is an addictive storyline and very likeable characters.

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Mitchell W

JD Robb Rocks!

Reviewed in the United States 🇺🇸 on December 26, 2022

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This book is fantastic. Robb creates flawed but love able characters. The heroine is hard driving, straightforward by the book cop with a reformed criminal as a love interest. They are made for each other, two lost souls.

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Beckie Bookworm

easily managed to keep my attention

Reviewed in the United Kingdom 🇬🇧 on January 17, 2023

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A really enjoyable read it easily managed to keep my attention and I’m definitely planning on continuing on with this series. First published in 1995 this is one that’s aged well. The premise is well constructed set in the future time of 2058 this focuses on Eve Dallas a New York cop investigating a series of murders of licensed sex workers called companions.

This then brings her into direct contact with Roarke he’s a billionaire businessman whose name keeps being connected with the case that she’s currently investigating. Eve finds herself experiencing major conflict between her professional and personal lives as she finds herself drawn towards the elusive and addicting male even knowing it could in fact compromise the case at hand.

I’m certainly now intrigued to see them grow as a pairing in future books and I did like them both as characters. I found this to be an interesting and easy read it’s definitely more action and mystery focused and the case does take centre stage here but I also loved the fact there was a developing romance as an additional background focus and I was equally engaged with both aspects of this. I definitely recommend this it had such an intriguing storyline and though I did guess who the baddie was I still appreciated this a whole lot.

Liz Mackie

Fantastic Start to the Series

Reviewed in the United Kingdom 🇬🇧 on December 5, 2019

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JD Robb is the alias of Nora Roberts for her In Death series featuring Eve Dallas, a lieutenant with the police department set in a futuristic New York around the 2050s. Naked in Death was first released around 20 years when some of the gadgets Eve uses in her fight against crime would have seemed more Sci-fi than anything else but now with advances in technology now seem within reach. Personally I’d love a car that could get me out of traffic jams like hers can. Eve has close to no personal life, rather her entire existence revolves around being a cop and representing the victims as she finds justice for them. She only has two people in her life she would actually call friends – Mavis, a grifter she met early on in her career and Captain Ryan Feeney, her mentor on the force and probably the closest thing to a father she’s ever had. She has very little memory of her early childhood before she was found abused and abandoned in a Dallas alleyway. Indeed this is where her name comes from given to her by a social worker. When a senator’s prostitute daughter is found brutally murdered Eve must solve the crime while fighting not only her attraction to her main suspect Roarke, one of the wealthiest men in the world and a man with secrets of his own but demons from her past as her memories begin to resurface.

Naked in Death is a fast paced, gripping thriller full of mystery, suspense and crime with no holding back on the gory details and some twists in the tail so nothing is too predictable before it reaches a satisfying conclusion. The addition of just the right amount of romance adds to the story and the chemistry between Eve and Roarke was tangible. All in all this was a great start to the series and I’m looking forward to seeing how the characters develop as the series progresses.

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sue

More graphic than expected

Reviewed in the United Kingdom 🇬🇧 on July 30, 2020

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I’m a huge fan of Nora Roberts but this is the first of her JD Robb series I’ve read. I was a bit put off at first because I didn’t understand a lot of the “jargon”. Then it dawned on me that it was set in the future (2058 not confirmed until much later on). Guns are now antiques and illegal, replaced by lasers. Space travel is everyday but political wheeling and dealing is still going on. I liked Eve and loved Roarke! Maybe I should’ve expected this in a police procedural but I struggled with the graphic descriptions of murder and abuse. It’s very well written and recommended if this is your genre. But I mostly read in bed and some of the scenes were too much for the middle of the night. No criticism of the author but I’ll probably give the rest of the series a miss.

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Sarah (Feeling Fictional)

In Death book 1

Reviewed in the United Kingdom 🇬🇧 on March 29, 2016

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I've been hearing great things about J.D. Robb's In Death series for years now - in fact I think it was about 4 years ago that I actually bought my copy of Naked in Death! - but no matter how many friends have recommended it to me I kept putting off starting it. Mainly because it's such an intimidating series, let's face it the series is going from strength to strength with book 43 publishing later this year and that number doesn't even take into account the novellas and short stories! So it wasn't so much that I was worried that I wouldn't like this book but that I was terrified that I would, I mean who really has time to commit to a series of that length? But mainly due to some persistent nagging (thanks for that Aly!) I FINALLY bit the bullet and dove head first into this world and boy I'm glad I did. I just had so much fun with these characters and I'm excited that I get to spend so much more time getting to know them.

I'm not really sure if it's even worth writing a review of this book since pretty much everyone I know seems to have already read it and there are certainly no shortage of other reviews out there but I feel like I probably should though just in case you're one of those people who, like me, have been feeling intimidated by the series and wondering if it's really worth all the fuss it gets. I want to say categorically, based just on the first book, that yes, YES it is worth grabbing a copy of Naked in Death and I hope you end up enjoying it as much as I did!

Even though this book was first published just over 20 years ago it doesn't feel dated thanks to the futuristic setting J.D. Robb has created, the series starts in 2058 so it's not so far into the future that it feels alien but it's just far enough that the author is able to include some interesting technology and make her own rules regarding current laws etc. The setting is well done and we were given enough information to catch my attention without it feeling overwhelming. The focus of this story is definitely the mystery and I though that side was very well handled, it kept me completely hooked and I enjoyed seeing how Eve worked the crime scenes and slowly pieced everything together.

Eve is a tough, no nonsense cop who loves her job and wants to help people, she doesn't remember much about her childhood thanks to repressed memories but readers get a hint of the things she has been through in the form of flashbacks that she suffers. I'm sure there is a lot more left to learn but seeing the vulnerable side of her was quite heartbreaking and it makes me sick to think of the things that she's been through. Eve doesn't want sympathy though, she just wants to focus on the future and doing her job to the best of her ability. It seems like she has a tendency to use her work as a shield against her emotions and she can come across as a little cold at times but that quickly starts to change when she meets Roarke and he starts to get under her skin.

Roarke is a character I've heard so much about so I was really excited to meet him. He's a billionaire businessman with a bit of a shady past and it's hard to tell whether he's 100% on the right side of the law even now. He obviously has a code of honour and there are lines that he won't cross but I suspect that all bets are off when the people he cares about are in trouble. When Eve crosses paths with him it's because he's a suspect in her murder investigation and she's left feeling very conflicted by the attraction she feels towards him, she can't decide if he's really innocent or whether her hormones are leading her astray but at least she is aware of the way her feelings could be affecting her decision making. Roarke is the kind of character who really should raise loads of red flags, he's very possessive and definitely shows more than a few stalker tendencies that I would find REALLY off putting in a real life situation but somehow J.D. Robb pulls it off and she had me falling head over heels for him in spite of the warning signs. So much about him is still a mystery and I can't wait to dig deeper into his past and find out what makes him tick.

As we get to know him it becomes clear that Roarke is just as messed up as Eve and they understand each other on a level that people who don't have their experiences would never quite be able to achieve. As a couple they just work so although things to progress between them very quickly it didn't feel unbelievable. I do wish the author had taken more time to get them to this point of their relationship, considering the length of the series I think we could have had that delicious will they / won't they pull between them for at least a couple of books, but even though things have moved quickly they still don't know each other that well and I'm sure we're going to enjoy seeing them open up and share more of their secrets. In fact, I'd rather have them become a couple in the first book than have to deal with yet another dreaded love triangle so I'm not going to complain about the romance even a little bit!

Naked in Death is a fantastic start to this series and it's definitely left me eager to spend more time with these characters. I think my bank balance will suffer when I rush out and buy the rest of the series but I'm looking forward to having so many books to binge on!

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Thereisalwaystimeforbooks

Amazing!

Reviewed in the United Kingdom 🇬🇧 on August 27, 2020

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I have raced through this one! Naked in Death by J. D. Robb a.k.a Nora Roberts!
I am a big fan of books by Nora Roberts and I have known for a while she had this crime series out under J.D. Robb but I was hesitant to start it. I was worried it wouldn’t live up to my expectations and would be too different from the Nora books I love. Also it is a long series of 50 books and growing so quite a commitment to start!
Well, I can tell you, I shouldn’t have worried because it blew me away! I spent every second I had reading a page here and a page there until it was finished! I now regret not starting it sooner and books 2 and 3 (of 50 😯) have been ordered!

I love Eve Dallas the cop and her uncertain past and no nonsense attitude! I love Roarke and how mysterious the wealthy businessman is! Written 25 years ago but set in a futuristic time, this book captured me from the get go!

5/5 ⭐️
Recommend ✅

#noraroberts #jdrobb #nakedindeath #thereisalwaystimeforbooks #darktea #bookworm #favouritecup #reading

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