Brotherhood in Death

Dennis Mira goes to his late grandfather's West Village brownstone to confront his cousin Edward. Edward has been meeting a real estate agent about selling the house, though both men promised to keep it in the family. Someone hits Dennis on the back of the head before the argument can start.

When Dennis wakes, Edward is gone. The last thing he remembers is his cousin in a chair, bruised and bloody. Dennis is married to Charlotte Mira, the NYPSD's top profiler and a friend of Lieutenant Eve Dallas, so both women arrive at the scene quickly. The place has been cleaned up and the security disks are missing. Forensics has only a few traces to work with.

Edward was a lawyer, a judge and a senator. He moved among the city's elite and also crossed paths with criminals, which left him with a steady supply of enemies. Like many politicians, he kept close friends behind closed and locked doors.

Eve has a badge and a billionaire husband, and together they open doors that stay shut to other investigators. She looks into the dirty deals and dark motives behind a powerful man's disappearance, and into a family quarrel over a multimillion-dollar property. This is a police procedural set in a futuristic New York, in the In Death series, and the case grows into something nobody expected.