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	== Central Location ==		== Central Location ==

			* [[New York City]]
	* [[Roarke Mansion]] — Eve and Roarke's home in New York City and the principal domestic location of the series.		* [[Roarke Mansion]] — Eve and Roarke's home in New York City and the principal domestic location of the series.
	* [~~https://indeath.fandom.com/wiki/NYPSD~~ NYPSD] — the headquarters of the [[New York Police and Security Department]] and Eve's primary workplace.		* [[NYPSD]] — the headquarters of the ''New York Police and Security Department'' and Eve's primary workplace.
	* [[Eve Dallas's Office]] — the office from which Eve directs her investigations and her homicide squad.
	* [[Roarke's Home Office]] — a frequent location for research, strategy sessions, and joint investigative work.
	* [[The Down and Dirty]] — a club owned by [[Crack]] and a recurring social and investigative location.
	* [[Mavis and Leonardo's Home]] — an important gathering place for Eve's extended family and friends.

	== Series Summary ==		== Series Summary ==

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	== Central Family ==		== Central Family ==
	~~See main article: [[Dallas-Roarke Family]]~~

	The central family is formed by [[Eve Dallas]] and [[Roarke]]. Neither begins the series with a conventional family structure, and both carry lasting trauma from abusive childhoods. Their marriage becomes the emotional center of the series.		The central family is formed by [[Eve Dallas]] and [[Roarke]]. Neither begins the series with a conventional family structure, and both carry lasting trauma from abusive childhoods. Their marriage becomes the emotional center of the series.

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	* [[Roarke Mansion]] — Eve and Roarke's home in New York City and the principal domestic location of the series.		* [[Roarke Mansion]] — Eve and Roarke's home in New York City and the principal domestic location of the series.
	* [~~[Central]~~] — the headquarters of the [[New York Police and Security Department]] and Eve's primary workplace.		* [https://indeath.fandom.com/wiki/NYPSD NYPSD] — the headquarters of the [[New York Police and Security Department]] and Eve's primary workplace.
	* [[Eve Dallas's Office]] — the office from which Eve directs her investigations and her homicide squad.		* [[Eve Dallas's Office]] — the office from which Eve directs her investigations and her homicide squad.
	* [[Roarke's Home Office]] — a frequent location for research, strategy sessions, and joint investigative work.		* [[Roarke's Home Office]] — a frequent location for research, strategy sessions, and joint investigative work.

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	The central family is formed by [[Eve Dallas]] and [[Roarke]]. Neither begins the series with a conventional family structure, and both carry lasting trauma from abusive childhoods. Their marriage becomes the emotional center of the series.		The central family is formed by [[Eve Dallas]] and [[Roarke]]. Neither begins the series with a conventional family structure, and both carry lasting trauma from abusive childhoods. Their marriage becomes the emotional center of the series.

	Over time, Eve and Roarke create an extended chosen family that includes [[Summerset]], [[Mavis Freestone]], [[Leonardo]], [[Bella Eve]], [[Delia Peabody]], [[Ian McNab]], [[Dr. Charlotte Mira]], [[Dennis Mira]], [[Nadine Furst]], [[Feeney]], and other friends and colleagues.		Over time, Eve and Roarke create an extended chosen family that includes [[Lawrence Summerset]], [[Mavis Freestone]], [[Leonardo]], [[Bella Eve]], [[Delia Peabody]], [[Ian McNab]], [[Dr. Charlotte Mira]], [[Dennis Mira]], [[Nadine Furst]], [[Ryan Feeney]], and other friends and colleagues.

	== Central Location ==		== Central Location ==

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	\| name = In Death		\| name = In Death
	\| author = [[Nora Roberts]]		\| author = [[Nora Roberts]]
	\| pen name = [[J. D. Robb]]		\| pen name = [[J.D. Robb]]
	\| number of books = 62 novels, 10 novellas, and 1 crossover novel		\| number of books = 62 novels, 10 novellas, and 1 crossover novel
	\| first book = ''[[Naked in Death]]''		\| first book = ''[[Naked in Death]]''
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	== Notes ==		== Notes ==

	* Nora Roberts writes the series under the pen name [[J. D. Robb]].		* Nora Roberts writes the series under the pen name [[J.D. Robb]].
	* The series is ongoing; ''[[Stolen in Death]]'', published in February 2026, is the sixty-second numbered novel.		* The series is ongoing; ''[[Stolen in Death]]'', published in February 2026, is the sixty-second numbered novel.
	* ''[[Fury in Death]]'' is scheduled to become the sixty-third numbered novel in September 2026.		* ''[[Fury in Death]]'' is scheduled to become the sixty-third numbered novel in September 2026.
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	** ''[[Wonderment in Death]]''		** ''[[Wonderment in Death]]''
	* Most of the novellas were first published in multi-author anthologies and were later collected in ''[[Three in Death]]'' and ''[[Time of Death]]''.		* Most of the novellas were first published in multi-author anthologies and were later collected in ''[[Three in Death]]'' and ''[[Time of Death]]''.
	* ''[[Remember When]]'' is a crossover novel consisting of a contemporary Nora Roberts story followed by an ''In Death'' sequel. The J. D. Robb portion was also published separately as ''[[Big Jack]]''.		* ''[[Remember When]]'' is a crossover novel consisting of a contemporary Nora Roberts story followed by an ''In Death'' sequel. The J.D. Robb portion was also published separately as ''[[Big Jack]]''.
	* The novellas and ''Remember When'' take place within the continuing chronology but are not included in the publisher's numbering of the full-length novels.		* The novellas and ''Remember When'' take place within the continuing chronology but are not included in the publisher's numbering of the full-length novels.
	* Eve and Roarke marry between ''[[Immortal in Death]]'' and ''[[Rapture in Death]]''; the wedding itself occurs off-page.		* Eve and Roarke marry between ''[[Immortal in Death]]'' and ''[[Rapture in Death]]''; the wedding itself occurs off-page.
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	[[Category:J. D. Robb]]		[[Category:J.D. Robb]]

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	'''{{PAGENAME}}''' is an ongoing futuristic romantic-suspense and police-procedural book series by [[Nora Roberts]], writing under the pen name [[~~J. D. Robb\|~~J.D. Robb]]. The series follows New York homicide detective [[Eve Dallas]] as she investigates murders in the mid-twenty-first century while building a life with her husband, [[Roarke]].		'''{{PAGENAME}}''' is an ongoing futuristic romantic-suspense and police-procedural book series by [[Nora Roberts]], writing under the pen name [[J.D. Robb]]. The series follows New York homicide detective [[Eve Dallas]] as she investigates murders in the mid-twenty-first century while building a life with her husband, [[Roarke]].

	== Overview ==		== Overview ==

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	'''{{PAGENAME}}''' is an ongoing futuristic romantic-suspense and police-procedural book series by [[Nora Roberts]], writing under the pen name [[J. D. Robb]]. The series follows New York homicide detective [[Eve Dallas]] as she investigates murders in the mid-twenty-first century while building a life with her husband, [[Roarke]].		'''{{PAGENAME}}''' is an ongoing futuristic romantic-suspense and police-procedural book series by [[Nora Roberts]], writing under the pen name [[J. D. Robb\|J.D. Robb]]. The series follows New York homicide detective [[Eve Dallas]] as she investigates murders in the mid-twenty-first century while building a life with her husband, [[Roarke]].

	== Overview ==		== Overview ==

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{{Infobox series
| name = In Death
| author = [[Nora Roberts]]
| pen name = [[J. D. Robb]]
| number of books = 62 novels, 10 novellas, and 1 crossover novel
| first book = ''[[Naked in Death]]''
| final book = Ongoing
| publication years = 1995–present
}}

'''{{PAGENAME}}''' is an ongoing futuristic romantic-suspense and police-procedural book series by [[Nora Roberts]], writing under the pen name [[J. D. Robb]]. The series follows New York homicide detective [[Eve Dallas]] as she investigates murders in the mid-twenty-first century while building a life with her husband, [[Roarke]].

== Overview ==

The series begins in New York City in 2058. Its central character, Lieutenant [[Eve Dallas]], is a homicide detective with the [[New York Police and Security Department]]. A determined and highly skilled investigator, Eve is driven by a strong belief in justice for the dead. Her dedication to her work is shaped in part by the abuse and violence she survived as a child.

In ''[[Naked in Death]]'', Eve meets [[Roarke]], an Irish-born businessman and billionaire who initially becomes a suspect in one of her investigations. Their developing relationship forms the principal romantic storyline of the series. They marry between ''[[Immortal in Death]]'' and ''[[Rapture in Death]]'', after which the novels follow both their marriage and Eve's continuing homicide investigations.

Although most installments contain a self-contained murder case, the series has a continuing chronology. Relationships, promotions, marriages, births, professional changes, and the consequences of earlier cases carry forward from one book to the next. Eve's circle gradually expands to include fellow police officers, medical professionals, artists, reporters, business associates, and survivors encountered through her investigations.

The novels combine police procedural, mystery, suspense, romance, humor, and speculative fiction. The futuristic setting includes advanced communications, artificial intelligence, interplanetary travel, legalized prostitution, reconstructed food, and other technological or social changes. Despite these elements, the series remains primarily focused on homicide investigations and character relationships rather than on scientific or technological speculation.

== Books in the Series ==

The following table lists the numbered full-length novels. Novellas and the crossover novel ''[[Remember When]]'' are listed separately in the Notes section.

{| class="wikitable sortable"
! # !! Title !! Year !! Focus character
|-
| 1 || ''[[Naked in Death]]'' || 1995 || [[Eve Dallas]]
|-
| 2 || ''[[Glory in Death]]'' || 1995 || [[Eve Dallas]]
|-
| 3 || ''[[Immortal in Death]]'' || 1996 || [[Eve Dallas]]
|-
| 4 || ''[[Rapture in Death]]'' || 1996 || [[Eve Dallas]]
|-
| 5 || ''[[Ceremony in Death]]'' || 1997 || [[Eve Dallas]]
|-
| 6 || ''[[Vengeance in Death]]'' || 1997 || [[Eve Dallas]]
|-
| 7 || ''[[Holiday in Death]]'' || 1998 || [[Eve Dallas]]
|-
| 8 || ''[[Conspiracy in Death]]'' || 1999 || [[Eve Dallas]]
|-
| 9 || ''[[Loyalty in Death]]'' || 1999 || [[Eve Dallas]]
|-
| 10 || ''[[Witness in Death]]'' || 2000 || [[Eve Dallas]]
|-
| 11 || ''[[Judgment in Death]]'' || 2000 || [[Eve Dallas]]
|-
| 12 || ''[[Betrayal in Death]]'' || 2001 || [[Eve Dallas]]
|-
| 13 || ''[[Seduction in Death]]'' || 2001 || [[Eve Dallas]]
|-
| 14 || ''[[Reunion in Death]]'' || 2002 || [[Eve Dallas]]
|-
| 15 || ''[[Purity in Death]]'' || 2002 || [[Eve Dallas]]
|-
| 16 || ''[[Portrait in Death]]'' || 2003 || [[Eve Dallas]]
|-
| 17 || ''[[Imitation in Death]]'' || 2003 || [[Eve Dallas]]
|-
| 18 || ''[[Divided in Death]]'' || 2004 || [[Eve Dallas]]
|-
| 19 || ''[[Visions in Death]]'' || 2004 || [[Eve Dallas]]
|-
| 20 || ''[[Survivor in Death]]'' || 2005 || [[Eve Dallas]]
|-
| 21 || ''[[Origin in Death]]'' || 2005 || [[Eve Dallas]]
|-
| 22 || ''[[Memory in Death]]'' || 2006 || [[Eve Dallas]]
|-
| 23 || ''[[Born in Death]]'' || 2006 || [[Eve Dallas]]
|-
| 24 || ''[[Innocent in Death]]'' || 2007 || [[Eve Dallas]]
|-
| 25 || ''[[Creation in Death]]'' || 2007 || [[Eve Dallas]]
|-
| 26 || ''[[Strangers in Death]]'' || 2008 || [[Eve Dallas]]
|-
| 27 || ''[[Salvation in Death]]'' || 2008 || [[Eve Dallas]]
|-
| 28 || ''[[Promises in Death]]'' || 2009 || [[Eve Dallas]]
|-
| 29 || ''[[Kindred in Death]]'' || 2009 || [[Eve Dallas]]
|-
| 30 || ''[[Fantasy in Death]]'' || 2010 || [[Eve Dallas]]
|-
| 31 || ''[[Indulgence in Death]]'' || 2010 || [[Eve Dallas]]
|-
| 32 || ''[[Treachery in Death]]'' || 2011 || [[Eve Dallas]]
|-
| 33 || ''[[New York to Dallas]]'' || 2011 || [[Eve Dallas]]
|-
| 34 || ''[[Celebrity in Death]]'' || 2012 || [[Eve Dallas]]
|-
| 35 || ''[[Delusion in Death]]'' || 2012 || [[Eve Dallas]]
|-
| 36 || ''[[Calculated in Death]]'' || 2013 || [[Eve Dallas]]
|-
| 37 || ''[[Thankless in Death]]'' || 2013 || [[Eve Dallas]]
|-
| 38 || ''[[Concealed in Death]]'' || 2014 || [[Eve Dallas]]
|-
| 39 || ''[[Festive in Death]]'' || 2014 || [[Eve Dallas]]
|-
| 40 || ''[[Obsession in Death]]'' || 2015 || [[Eve Dallas]]
|-
| 41 || ''[[Devoted in Death]]'' || 2015 || [[Eve Dallas]]
|-
| 42 || ''[[Brotherhood in Death]]'' || 2016 || [[Eve Dallas]]
|-
| 43 || ''[[Apprentice in Death]]'' || 2016 || [[Eve Dallas]]
|-
| 44 || ''[[Echoes in Death]]'' || 2017 || [[Eve Dallas]]
|-
| 45 || ''[[Secrets in Death]]'' || 2017 || [[Eve Dallas]]
|-
| 46 || ''[[Dark in Death]]'' || 2018 || [[Eve Dallas]]
|-
| 47 || ''[[Leverage in Death]]'' || 2018 || [[Eve Dallas]]
|-
| 48 || ''[[Connections in Death]]'' || 2019 || [[Eve Dallas]]
|-
| 49 || ''[[Vendetta in Death]]'' || 2019 || [[Eve Dallas]]
|-
| 50 || ''[[Golden in Death]]'' || 2020 || [[Eve Dallas]]
|-
| 51 || ''[[Shadows in Death]]'' || 2020 || [[Eve Dallas]]
|-
| 52 || ''[[Faithless in Death]]'' || 2021 || [[Eve Dallas]]
|-
| 53 || ''[[Forgotten in Death]]'' || 2021 || [[Eve Dallas]]
|-
| 54 || ''[[Abandoned in Death]]'' || 2022 || [[Eve Dallas]]
|-
| 55 || ''[[Desperation in Death]]'' || 2022 || [[Eve Dallas]]
|-
| 56 || ''[[Encore in Death]]'' || 2023 || [[Eve Dallas]]
|-
| 57 || ''[[Payback in Death]]'' || 2023 || [[Eve Dallas]]
|-
| 58 || ''[[Random in Death]]'' || 2024 || [[Eve Dallas]]
|-
| 59 || ''[[Passions in Death]]'' || 2024 || [[Eve Dallas]]
|-
| 60 || ''[[Bonded in Death]]'' || 2025 || [[Eve Dallas]]
|-
| 61 || ''[[Framed in Death]]'' || 2025 || [[Eve Dallas]]
|-
| 62 || ''[[Stolen in Death]]'' || 2026 || [[Eve Dallas]]
|}

== Setting ==

* The series is set primarily in [[New York City]] during the middle decades of the twenty-first century, beginning in 2058.
* Eve works for the [[New York Police and Security Department]], usually abbreviated as the [[NYPSD]].
* The world is still recovering from the [[Urban Wars]], a period of international conflict that reshaped governments, law enforcement, food production, and social institutions.
* Handguns are heavily restricted, prostitution has been legalized and regulated, and many familiar foods have been replaced by soy-based or laboratory-produced substitutes.
* Common technologies include domestic robots, droids, advanced medical treatments, air and off-planet travel, holograms, AutoChefs, computerized vehicles, and sophisticated communications and surveillance systems.
* Although cases occasionally take Eve outside New York or off-planet, Manhattan remains the principal setting.

== Central Family ==
See main article: [[Dallas-Roarke Family]]

The central family is formed by [[Eve Dallas]] and [[Roarke]]. Neither begins the series with a conventional family structure, and both carry lasting trauma from abusive childhoods. Their marriage becomes the emotional center of the series.

Over time, Eve and Roarke create an extended chosen family that includes [[Summerset]], [[Mavis Freestone]], [[Leonardo]], [[Bella Eve]], [[Delia Peabody]], [[Ian McNab]], [[Dr. Charlotte Mira]], [[Dennis Mira]], [[Nadine Furst]], [[Feeney]], and other friends and colleagues.

== Central Location ==

* [[Roarke Mansion]] — Eve and Roarke's home in New York City and the principal domestic location of the series.
* [[Central]] — the headquarters of the [[New York Police and Security Department]] and Eve's primary workplace.
* [[Eve Dallas's Office]] — the office from which Eve directs her investigations and her homicide squad.
* [[Roarke's Home Office]] — a frequent location for research, strategy sessions, and joint investigative work.
* [[The Down and Dirty]] — a club owned by [[Crack]] and a recurring social and investigative location.
* [[Mavis and Leonardo's Home]] — an important gathering place for Eve's extended family and friends.

== Series Summary ==

Lieutenant [[Eve Dallas]] serves as a homicide detective in a technologically advanced but socially imperfect New York City. Each installment places Eve at the center of a murder investigation, ranging from crimes of passion and domestic violence to serial murder, organized crime, terrorism, political corruption, and technologically assisted killing.

Eve approaches each victim as someone whose life and identity must be recovered from the circumstances of death. She frequently states or demonstrates that she “stands for the dead,” and her determination to identify killers often places her in physical or emotional danger. Her investigations rely on forensic evidence, interviews, psychological insight, police procedure, teamwork, and her ability to provoke suspects into revealing themselves.

Running alongside the investigations is Eve's personal development. At the beginning of the series, she is emotionally isolated and reluctant to trust others. Her relationship with Roarke forces both characters to confront their histories, fears, and differing views of justice. Their marriage develops without replacing Eve's professional identity or Roarke's complicated relationship with wealth, power, and his criminal past.

The supporting cast also develops across the series. [[Delia Peabody]] progresses from Eve's aide to her detective partner; [[Ian McNab]] becomes both a frequent investigative collaborator and Peabody's romantic partner; [[Mavis Freestone]] builds a musical career and a family with [[Leonardo]]; and Eve's relationships with mentors such as [[Feeney]] and [[Dr. Charlotte Mira]] deepen. These continuing relationships give the series a cumulative family narrative in addition to its individual mysteries.

== Themes ==

* '''Justice for victims''' — Eve's principal motivation is to speak for murder victims and hold their killers accountable.
* '''Survival and recovery''' — Eve, Roarke, and many recurring characters live with the effects of childhood abuse, violence, exploitation, or loss.
* '''Found family''' — characters who lack secure biological families gradually form a close and loyal community.
* '''Marriage and partnership''' — Eve and Roarke learn to balance love, independence, work, wealth, danger, and conflicting moral perspectives.
* '''Identity''' — the series frequently examines the difference between the identity imposed on a person and the identity that person chooses.
* '''Power and corruption''' — many cases involve the abuse of institutional, financial, political, technological, or personal power.
* '''Technology and humanity''' — futuristic technology changes how people live and how crimes are committed, but it does not eliminate greed, cruelty, love, loyalty, or compassion.
* '''Professional growth''' — Eve's squad and associates gain experience, responsibility, and confidence as the chronology progresses.
* '''The value of ordinary life''' — meals, friendships, celebrations, domestic routines, and humor provide a counterpoint to homicide and violence.

== Notes ==

* Nora Roberts writes the series under the pen name [[J. D. Robb]].
* The series is ongoing; ''[[Stolen in Death]]'', published in February 2026, is the sixty-second numbered novel.
* ''[[Fury in Death]]'' is scheduled to become the sixty-third numbered novel in September 2026.
* The series has ten novellas:
** ''[[Midnight in Death]]''
** ''[[Interlude in Death]]''
** ''[[Haunted in Death]]''
** ''[[Eternity in Death]]''
** ''[[Ritual in Death]]''
** ''[[Missing in Death]]''
** ''[[Possession in Death]]''
** ''[[Chaos in Death]]''
** ''[[Taken in Death]]''
** ''[[Wonderment in Death]]''
* Most of the novellas were first published in multi-author anthologies and were later collected in ''[[Three in Death]]'' and ''[[Time of Death]]''.
* ''[[Remember When]]'' is a crossover novel consisting of a contemporary Nora Roberts story followed by an ''In Death'' sequel. The J. D. Robb portion was also published separately as ''[[Big Jack]]''.
* The novellas and ''Remember When'' take place within the continuing chronology but are not included in the publisher's numbering of the full-length novels.
* Eve and Roarke marry between ''[[Immortal in Death]]'' and ''[[Rapture in Death]]''; the wedding itself occurs off-page.
* The fictional chronology advances much more slowly than the real-world publication chronology.
* The audio editions are narrated by [[Susan Ericksen]].
* Titles are usually constructed as a single word followed by “in Death.” ''[[New York to Dallas]]'' is the principal exception among the numbered novels.

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