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New York to Dallas
New York to Dallas
New York to Dallas
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New York to Dallas

Written by J. D. Robb

Narrated by Susan Ericksen

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It was one of Eve Dallas’s earliest takedowns, back in her uniform days. A monster named Isaac McQueen had been abducting young victims and leaving them scarred in both mind and body. Thanks to Eve, he wound up where he belonged, removed from civilized society in Rikers. But he’s not behind bars anymore.

After his escape, McQueen has two things in mind. One is to take up where he left off, preying on the young and innocent—when necessary, with the help of a female partner all too willing to be manipulated and to aid and abet his crimes. His other goal: to get revenge on the woman who stopped him all those years ago, now a high-profile lieutenant in the NYPSD and married to one of the city’s richest men.

Commanding Eve’s attention with a chilling and brazen crime, McQueen sets off the chase—forcing Eve down a road marked with blood and tears, a road that eventually leads southwest to Dallas, Texas, the home Eve fled long ago. And each new twist brings her closer to the harrowing memory of when she wasn’t a hardened detective but a vulnerable girl just like McQueen’s innocent prey. As her husband, Roarke, tries to rescue her from the nightmares that claw at her mind, and her partner, Peabody, doggedly works to support her, Eve must confront—and call upon—the darkest parts of her own soul in order to survive.

LanguageEnglish
Release dateSep 13, 2011
ISBN9781441836359
New York to Dallas
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J. D. Robb

J.D. Robb is the pseudonym for #1 New York Times bestselling author Nora Roberts. She is the author of over two hundred novels, including the futuristic suspense In Death series. There are more than five hundred million copies of her books in print.

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  • Rating: 5 out of 5 stars
    5/5
    An old killer escape from prison and killed one of the medics take his identity while the serial rapist walked out of the Prison. Now he has taken another innocent victims in their home. While he send a message to Lieutenant Eve Dallas intending to bring her into his criminal action this time. He intended to bring one out of the former girls as a means to the end.

    Unfortunately for this course of actions. He plans to bring Lieutenant Eve Dallas back to The city of Dallas back to her history and where she was discovered. Wanting to use that memory to bring down. Again he had a partner who serve as the mother identity. She is the one that does all the home and other needs he requires. This time it was her biological mother. This same woman who left her with her father without care in the world about that child.

    When they meet the way it happens and the way she saw her opens up other painful memories that Eve Dallas as boxup within her, mind and never to deal with them. It was a big blow that her was the partner who delivered an innocent girl to the pendifile. To be raped and broken. She did not care did not want to care but only for the drug addiction. That the collector have for her.

    She killed an officer steal to run back to him only for him to take her out. He got away to continue to plan for his big kill but this time the police caught up with him in his new place. But he was not there! He managed to get away He was able to run and find ways to call locates where Dallas is staging. He managed to broke in and lie waiting to kill her but this time he was the one who was taken down again.
  • Rating: 5 out of 5 stars
    5/5
    JD Robb at her best. Shows the inside and determination of Eve, with or without her NYPD team support. Excellent presentation of the dedicated cops, who also have much empathy for the victims. I never tire of reading this author’s books.
  • Rating: 5 out of 5 stars
    5/5
    Nora does it yet again. We learn a bit more about Eves past
  • Rating: 5 out of 5 stars
    5/5
    Another fabulous instalment in this series. Fairly dark but the twists really pay off.
  • Rating: 5 out of 5 stars
    5/5
    This was a winner above all others!!we got to see a deeper side of Roarke
  • Rating: 5 out of 5 stars
    5/5
    If one can enjoy a story with murder and violence as its centerpiece then I felt this one was one of her best. She composes these stories with such character development. Even if you have read each and everyone, the next one takes you more in-depth into the numerous continuing characters as they work together to solve the next case. Just as it would happen in everyday life as it is lived now or in the future......
  • Rating: 4 out of 5 stars
    4/5
    This is the 33rd book in this series. One of my favourite series, I have to admit, which I'm using as my comfort read. However, sometimes starting next book in this series I wonder is there anything left to write about after so many books? To create this magic thrill from the first books? After reading New York to Dallas I'm sure the answer is: yes, definitely.

    This is one of the stories where we know the personality of the villain from the very beginning. The dangerous paedophile Eve arrested at the beginning of her career escaped from the jail and is looking for a revenge. But this knowledge doesn't make the story less exciting and entertaining. The game between Isaac and Dallas is engrossing.

    The very important part of the story is also Eve's past and her dealing with the memories of her childhood. The villain makes her come to Dallas, the city strictly connected with her being who she is, and that is definitely not good for her emotional balance. I liked the way she is dealing with it and that Roarke is always by her side. I even think that he has a stronger presence in this story than in the other books and that's great because their relationship is probably one of the best part of the whole series.

    This is a very good addition to the series with all the things I love about it.
  • Rating: 5 out of 5 stars
    5/5
    My favorite series, Eve Dallas and Roarke, provides the cop procedural in a future setting with romance. The characters J D Robb has drawn are well defined and loved by the readers of this series. A lot of suspense as Eve and Roarke go to Dallas, to the scene of Eve's nightmares.
  • Rating: 5 out of 5 stars
    5/5
    That was brutal! The first serial killer Eve ever caught breaks out of prison with revenge on his mind. He’s been researching Eve and will hurt more than anyone ever has... he will drag her back to Dallas.
  • Rating: 5 out of 5 stars
    5/5
    Pity the next book listed is ''' New York to Dallas '' again
  • Rating: 4 out of 5 stars
    4/5
    This is a recent book in the In Death series. It begins with LT. Eve Dallas bemoaning the necessity of paperwork. Unfortunately, she gets a reprieve in the form of an prison escapee from her past. Isaac McQueen has escaped from prison and begins his new reign of terror. Through flashbacks, we see how a lucky break lead Eve to his door and ultimately sent him away. During his prison time, he has been cooking up a plot to get back at her that will take her away from her known territory of NYC back to Dallas where she was able to break free of the years of abuse at the hands of her father. The storyline is fast paced and brings a new cast of characters. Peabody is still involved but only superficially. I like the story for the most part but felt like it ended too perfectly. It was almost too easy to be true. But I did like it.
  • Rating: 4 out of 5 stars
    4/5
    I really enjoyed this suspenseful read. I bought this at a local library sale and I voluntarily chose to review this story. I've given it a 4.2 * rating. This is not for the under 18 readers. There is a lot of violence and cursing by the main characters. This story did pull me in fast and kept me reading to find out how it would end. This is a little futuristic that threw me for a little bit but not overly much. Ends well.
  • Rating: 2 out of 5 stars
    2/5
    My first J.D. Robb novel. Was not impressed. Don't like books with excessive profanity
  • Rating: 5 out of 5 stars
    5/5
    Eve Dallas' past comes back to bite her in some very painful ways in this book, but this is Dallas, and ant it's always a mistake to bite her.

    The first blast from her past is a serial killer she arrested twelve years ago, when she was still a uniformed patrol officer. She stumbled onto the man while looking for possible witnesses in another case, realized there was something hinky, and wound up bagging the killer and rescuing the girls who were his current crop of victims. The killer was locked up, and his victims returned to their families.

    Twelve years later, he has escaped from prison, victimized a young couple, and sent Dallas a message.

    That message sends her to Dallas, TX, where her personal painful history begins, And as she tracks down the killer, and his new victims, one piece of the puzzle is a figure out of that distant, buried, past. With Roarke by her side, with Peabody back in New York working that end of the case, and working together with the Dallas homicide cops who operate in a very different cop culture, Eve has to face the most painful memories of her childhood and relive the nightmare again.

    This is another excellent "In Death" novel, with Dallas and Roarke exploring and deepening their relationship even while Dallas is forced to reach outside her familiar tools and tactics to find the killer and rescue his latest victims, and Peabody operates on her own without Dallas looking over her shoulder for the first time. It's fast-paced, intense, and takes all the characters forward in their development.

    Recommended.

    I bought this book.
  • Rating: 5 out of 5 stars
    5/5
    Among the better of JD Robb's In Death series.
  • Rating: 5 out of 5 stars
    5/5
    Nora Roberts really outdid herself with this book. The plot involves the first serious criminal Eve ever caught escaping from prison. Of course he has revenge in mind, revenge on Eve specifically. What she didn't foresee is that the case would take her back to Dallas, and the nightmare that was her childhood. Most of the smaller secondary characters we've come to know and love don't appear in this book, or not much. Instead if focuses mostly on Eve and Roark, and some newer (and I imagine temporary) characters from Dallas. This book delves into Eve's past in a way no other book in the series has. There were tears in my eyes more than once -- a very emotional book.
  • Rating: 4 out of 5 stars
    4/5
    Some of the aspects of this book's plot didn't sit well with me. I wanted them to, they just didn't seem to fit as well as they were intended to. Not sure if that makes a bit of sense. I just found myself wanting Eve to come to the eventuality of finding out about her mother/confronting her differently. The coincidence that she happens to be hooked into the story by just seemed... off in a way. I mean, the reality is there to support it. Women who get involved with pedophiles (etc) often continue to do so down the road. But I just wish there was more involved in the connection so it didn't seem so slapdash.
  • Rating: 5 out of 5 stars
    5/5
    Eve and Roarke find themselves in Dallas tracking a killer that Eve put in jail 12 years ago. He's begun taking young girls again but he wants Eve - has special plans for her. A surprise shows up in the story that was very unexpected. Another fantastic offering from J.D. Robb.
  • Rating: 3 out of 5 stars
    3/5
    Eve’s first take down in uniform was a monster named Isaac McQueen. He was a collector; a collector of young women. Fast forward and Eve is now a Homicide Lieutenant and Isaac McQueen has escaped. Not only is he interested in taking up where he left off as far as his “collection” is concerned, but he wants to exact revenge on Eve for interrupting him the first time. Unfortunately for Eve, McQueen has taken up residence in Dallas. Eve and Dallas have history and none of it good. However, Eve and Rourke travel to Dallas to confront one very real monster but also some long ago monster who will not leave Eve’s nightmares. A few surprises thrown in along the way make this a must read for fans of the In Death series.

    This first of the Eve Dallas novels not to include “In Death” in the title, it is also one of the first to focus so entirely on Eve that it all but excludes the other characters. Interesting as the story was I found I missed “the old gang”. Without including any spoilers, Ms. Robb (aka Nora Roberts) did leave the series open to some interesting familial possibilities for Eve. After the last two books I read I needed something light and entertaining with some familiar reliable faces. This one fit the bill nicely.
  • Rating: 4 out of 5 stars
    4/5
    Loved it, as per usual.
    I ended up reading the next one in the series before this one, so I knew how everything went down, but it was still a wild and emotionally-wrought ride getting through it.

    And Peabody is still adorbs.
  • Rating: 5 out of 5 stars
    5/5
    New York to Dallas book 34 the in death series by J. D. Robb is a masterpiece that brings the series and it's characters full circle to the core of Lt Eve Dallas.

    The book begins on a grizzly note as a frantic civilian rushes to deliver a timed message to cop central's to cop. A message that will shake the very foundation of her world as it spews a backlash of misery, despair and torment.

    Ms. Robb has truly outdone herself this time. The book captures a reader's attention within the first few chapters and plunges the series into a vortex of unimaginable turn of events.

    As in some of the previous installments the book initially reveals the target of Eve's current investigation and similarly maps out the elaborate steps taken to snare the culprit. But unlike all the previous installments, New York to Dallas expertly plucks LT Eve Dallas out of her New York comfort zone and bodily hurls her straight into her worst nightmare.

    The is really the pinnacle of the series, steeped with tons of character angst, emotional upheavals and a great dose of detective reasoning.

    New York to Dallas is yet another masterpiece in storytelling! Readers will gasp in dismay, weep with both sorrow and joy as the ultimate love and devotion that Eve and Roarke have for each other is tested in their hunt for Issac McQueen. Ms. Robb continues to surpass her previous characterizations of both Eve and Roarke and delves even deeper into their relationship.

    I think the only thing missing from the novel were a few additional character interactions during the commendation ceremony and before Eve and Roarke's trip. The additions of certain familiarities are a nice touch, that succeed in establishing balance in an unbalanced situation.

    All in all I loved new York to Dallas for it's glimpses into Eve's rookie years and her driving motivations to be the best, the abundance of personal angst and it's effects in strengthening the bounds between characters and above all I simply adored the level of Roarke's commitment to Eve no matter what. Even when they are viciously swiping at each other.
  • Rating: 5 out of 5 stars
    5/5
    Best book of the series
  • Rating: 4 out of 5 stars
    4/5
    I expected this to be an emotional roller coaster, but sadly it fell kind of flat in that area. Although a decent entry in the series, I'm kind of bummed that it didn't pack the punch I was looking for.

    There were some truly great scenes and some great one-liners.
  • Rating: 4 out of 5 stars
    4/5
    It was nice to finally get back into this world, it's been a while for me. This remains one of my favorite series, with some of my favorite characters ever.

    The mystery was as solid and gritty as ever. My only real complaint with the mystery was all the coincidences. The one girl who visited him in prison was the last girl he took, and she just so happened to move with her family to Dallas, which just so happens to be the last name of the cop who caught him. Then he just so happens to hook up with a woman helper who just so happens to be Eve's long lost, terrible mother?? I kept waiting for there to be more to that story, that the guy used his supposedly really good techie skills to figure out the link between his accomplice and Eve, but nope, just another in a long line of coincidences in this series. Just like how we learn Roarke's terrible, abusive father just so happened to have had dealings with Eve's terrible abusive father in a previous book. Too many coincidences.

    I also missed our regular crew, with Eve and Roarke in Dallas the whole time, so I'm looking forward to getting back to NY and Peabody, McNab, Feeney, and the rest of the crew.
  • Rating: 5 out of 5 stars
    5/5
    I love Eve and Roarke. I totally called it though, but I was pissed that there was no closure. I wanted Eve to get in her face.
  • Rating: 4 out of 5 stars
    4/5
    Eve is trying to wade her way through a mountain of reports and paperwork that had accumulated on her desk (funnily enough, as I was reading I was doing the very same thing!), when she hears about the first man she put away, Isaac McQueen and his escape. He's obsessed by Eve and determined to wreak his revenge on her. This brings Eve to Dallas where she has to face up to more than one demon from her past, while making sure that McQueen doesn't get away with it all again.Oh Eve was a mess with this one, she pushed herself into exhaustion too often and the nightmares fed the tension, the arguments and makeup sessions rang true to character for both Rourke and Eve and I loved the asides about suitable presents. The story was tension filled, and every time there was a little mistake that meant the bad guys got away it was believable.I liked this one, dealt with some issues without getting too caught-up with them.
  • Rating: 4 out of 5 stars
    4/5
    One of the best of the series in which some of the loose ends of Eve Dallas' life get wrapped up. And one in which she operates without her team with her.
  • Rating: 4 out of 5 stars
    4/5
    This is the first full length In Death story I have listened to on audio first - usually I read the paper version - but I decided to step out of my usual routine here. I found it to be another enjoyable installment in the series but it wasn't the best that I've read or listened to. Isaac McQueen has escaped from prison. Known as "the Collector" at the time of his arrest (by Rookie Officer Eve Dallas), he was responsible for the abduction, rape and torture of some 26 girls and the murder of an unknown number of women. Isaac wants revenge on Eve and when he escapes he draws her to Dallas where he has nefarious plans. Eve and Roarke go together to consult with the Dallas police and try and save his recent abductee. While there, Eve has to further confront her past and makes a stunning discovery. Roarke, for the first time, feels helpless and at a loss (these were my favourite bits - oh, the angst!). I have come to realise that I enjoy the parts of the series where Roarke is emotionally tortured however, so I wonder what that says about me!! Of necessity, this book lacked much of the usual secondary characters like Peabody, McNab, Mavis etc. and I did miss them a bit. A very good book, but I'd rate Treachery in Death higher for story. As always, very well narrated by the superb Susan Ericksen.
  • Rating: 5 out of 5 stars
    5/5
    One of the better installments in the long continuing Eve Dallas saga. It contains more of the personal for Eve and Roarke and a little less, but not much, of the over-the-top torture and rape than are in some of these books. There's good suspense even though you know from the beginning who the criminal is. As always, a fast read.
  • Rating: 4 out of 5 stars
    4/5
    Be careful what you wish for ... especially if what you wish is for answers to your unknown past. In this installation in the Eve Dallas series, a surprise from the past confronts our fiesty Lieutenant and shocks her to her very core. Far away from her team in New York, she has to adjust to a new team and new situations, not all of them pleasant, but at least with Roarke by her side. A criminal she had helped put in prison in her rookie days has escaped from prison and has planned a new reign of terror, this time, determined to humiliate Eve in the process.