Title: New York to Dallas
Author: JD Robb
Review: I have been reading this series for years
now. I must admit I skip a book here and
there due to the fact that they are only days or weeks apart in their timeline
so not much happens in the ongoing plot that often. But, I do enjoy this series and the
characters.
This
book carried the on-going plot quite a bit with her history as she goes back to
Dallas to find a criminal and face her demons.
This is a fast paced book that keeps you turning the pages and I did
read this one faster than I have a few in the past that seemed to drag on and
on.
I love
Roarke and Eve and look forward to more adventures and maybe a baby in the
future.
ISBN
9780399157783
Page
Count: 402
Quick
Review: 4 out 5 stars –
Why I
Read this Title: Picked up at my local library
Synopsis:
The new novel from the #1 New York Times-bestselling author, which takes
readers deeper into the mind of Eve Dallas than ever before.
The
number-one New York Times-bestselling author J. D. Robb presents an intense and
terrifying new case for New York homicide cop Eve Dallas, one that will take
her all the way to the city that gave her her name-and plunge her into the
nightmares of her childhood.
When a
monster named Isaac McQueen-taken down by Eve back in her uniform days-escapes
from Rikers, he has two things in mind. One is to pick up where he left off,
abducting young victims and leaving them scarred in both mind and body. The
other is to get revenge on the woman who stopped him all those years ago.
Author
Information: Eleanor
Marie Robertson was born on October 10, 1950 in Silver Spring, Maryland, U.S.A.
She was the youngest of the five children, also the only girl, of a marriage
with Irish ancestors. Her family were avid readers, so books were always
important in her life. She attended a Catholic school and credits the nuns with
instilling in her a sense of discipline. During her sophomore year in high
school, she transferred to a local public school, where she met Ronald
Aufdem-Brinke, her future first husband.
In
August 17, 1968, as soon as she had graduated from High School, Eleanor
married, against her parents' wishes. The marriage settled in Keedysville,
Maryland. Her husband worked at his father's sheet-metal business before
joining her parents in their lighting company. While, she worked briefly as a
legal secretary. "I could type fast but couldn't spell, I was the worst
legal secretary ever," she says now. After their sons, Dan and Jason, were
born she stayed home. Calling this her "Earth Mother" years, she
spent much of her time doing crafts, including ceramics and sewing her
children's clothes. The marriage ended separating, and they obtained the
divorce in January 1985.
In
February 1979, a blizzard in forced her hand to try another creative outlet.
She was snowed in with a three and six year old with no kindergarten respite in
sight and a dwindling supply of chocolate. During the now famous blizzard, she
pulled out a pencil and notebook and began to write down one of those stories.
It was there that a career was born. Several manuscripts and rejections later,
her first book, Irish Thoroughbred, was published by Silhouette in 1981 as Nora
Roberts, a shortened form of her birth name Eleanor Marie Robertson, because
she assumed that all authors had pen names.
Eleanor
wrote under the pseudonym Jill March a story for a magazine titled
"Melodies of Love".
Eleanor
met her second husband, Bruce Wilder, when she hired him to build bookshelves.
They were married in July 1985. Her husband owns and operates a bookstore in
Boonsboro, Maryland called "Turn the Page Books". Since that time,
they've expanded their home, traveled the world.
In
1992, she decided adopted other pseudonym so to publish a futuristic-suspense
novels, she first decided to use the pseudonym D.J. MacGregor, but she
discovered that this pseudonym was used by another author. In 1995, her first
"In Death" serial novel was published under the pseudonym J.D. Robb,
the initials "J.D." were taken from her sons, Jason and Dan, while
"Robb" is a shortened form of Roberts.
Eleanor
has also been known as Sara Hardesty, because when the "Born In"
series was released in U.K. it carried that name instead of Nora Roberts. She
has since changed publishers.
Eleanor
has been plagiarized by another best-selling romance writer, Janet Dailey. The
practice came to light after a reader read Nora Roberts' "Sweet Revenge"
and Janet Dailey's "Notorious" back-to-back; she noticed several
similarities and posted the comparable passages on the Internet. Calling the
plagiarism "mind rape," Eleanor sued Janet Daily. In 1997, Janet,
admitted to repeatedly plagiarizing from Nora Roberts' work, and that both
"Aspen Gold" and "Notorious" lifted heavily from Nora
Roberts's work. Both of those novels were pulled from print after Janet's
admission. She acknowledged the plagiarism and blamed it on a psychological
disorder. In a settlement, Janet paid Eleanor an undisclosed sum, which Eleanor
donated to the Literacy Volunteers of America.
A
founding member of the Romance Writers of America (R.W.A.), she was the first
inductee in the organization's Hall of Fame. She also is a member of several
writers groups and has won countless award.
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