Memory in Death

In the New York of 2059, Lieutenant Eve Dallas has built a career on being unshakable. Then Trudy Lombard walks into the station, an ordinary-looking middle-aged woman with a pleasant smile, and Eve is thrown back to her childhood. Trudy was the foster mother who made a frightened, traumatized girl's life miserable, and seeing her again cracks the armor Eve has spent years putting on.

Trudy says she has traveled to New York only to check on how Eve is doing. Eve's husband, Roarke, doesn't believe it for a moment, and he is proved right when Trudy tries to blackmail the couple. They want nothing more than to see her gone from their lives.

But Eve and Roarke are not the only ones who want Trudy out of the picture. When she is found murdered, Eve has to set aside her personal history and treat the woman who once tormented her as just another victim. The investigation sends her and Roarke down a winding, dangerous trail as they try to discover who killed a person with so many reasons to be hated.

Memory in Death is a novel in J. D. Robb's In Death series, a blend of futuristic police procedural and suspense in which Eve's past and her work collide.