Creation in Death

Lieutenant Eve Dallas of the NYPSD works homicide in a near-future New York City. A young brunette is found in East River Park, her arms spread and palms up, her body marked by long, painful torture. The time it took her to die is carved into her torso in hours, minutes and seconds, and a silver ring sits on her left ring finger.

Eve has seen this scene before. Nine years earlier, a killer the media called The Groom left silver rings on his victims, and four women died within fifteen days. Eve worked that case with Ryan Feeney, her partner, friend and mentor. They could not catch him before he vanished. He then turned up in other parts of the world, killing again each time.

Now he seems to be back where he began, and this time the crime is aimed at Eve herself. The latest victim worked for Roarke, Eve's billionaire husband, so she brings him into the investigation. The body was washed with products from a store Roarke owns and laid on a sheet made by his company.

Eve knows the killer's methods, and she knows he has already taken his next victim. That abduction is meant to be the hardest of his career. This is a police procedural in the In Death series, set in the future, with a cold case returning and the clock running on a captive woman's life.