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Eine junge Frau wird im Central Park ermordet. Ein schockierender Anblick - auch für die erfahrene Polizistin Eve Dallas. Denn der Mörder hat seinem Opfer die Augen entfernt. Und es werden noch mehr Leichen mit diesem makabren Zeichen entdeckt. Eve Dallas steht vor einem Rätsel, bis ausgerechnet eine Hellseherin Hinweise liefert. Mithilfe ihres Ehemanns Roarke kommt Eve dem Psychopathen auf die Spur und entdeckt dabei ein schreckliches Geheimnis aus ihrer Vergangenheit.

Eine persönliche Nachricht, eine tote Prostituierte und ein Tatort, der kaum blutiger sein könnte: Lieutenant Eve Dallas verfolgt einen Killer durch die Straßen von New York, der die Handschrift der brutalsten Serienmörder der Geschichte kopiert. Schnell wird klar, dass die Polizistin diesmal direkt im Fadenkreuz des Täters steht. Eine atemlose Hetzjagd beginnt, die Eve bis in die höchsten Kreise der Reichen und Mächtigen führt. Eve und der Mörder sind beide Jäger und Gejagte zugleich.

Die Verführung war perfekt - sanftes Kerzenlicht, romantische Musik, Rosenblüten auf dem Bett. Doch warum hat sich die junge Frau nach dem Rendezvous mit dem unbekannten aus dem 12. Stock des Apartmenthauses gestürzt? Eve Dallas zweifelt stark an der Selbstmord-Theorie, denn im Blut des Opfers wird eine gefährliche Substanz festgestellt. Eine Droge, die Frauen willig macht. Das Verbrechen bereitet Eve schlaflose Nächte, denn jeden Moment könnte der Täter wieder zuschlagen.

Drückende Sommerglut liegt über New York, die Stadt ist mit Gewalt aufgeheizt. Ist dies der Grund, dass ein bislang unauffälliger kleiner Dealer plötzlich ausrastet, bis ihn die Kugel eines Polizisten stoppt? Was bedeutet die mysteriöse Botschaft "Absolute Reinheit erreicht" auf dem Bildschirm seines Computers? Eve Dallas gerät unter Druck, als der Computerspezialist der Polizei unter ähnlichen Umständen Amok läuft. In Eve keimt ein furchtbarer Verdacht auf: Der Tod kommt online.

"Sie war die erste und ihr Licht war rein!" Zusammen mit dieser Botschaft werden einer Journalistin eine Reihe professioneller Modelfotos zugespielt. Nur - das Model ist tot und liegt in der schwülheißen Sommerhitze New Yorks in einem Recycling-Container. Eve Dallas ermittelt gegen einen Killer, der nichts dem Zufall überlässt, denn sein Werk muss vollendet werden. Er hat eine Mission: Die Unschuld und Lebendigkeit ihrer Jugend einzufangen - mit einem einzigen Schuss.

Erst entdeckt Reva Ewing ein Foto, auf dem ihr Mann mit ihrer besten Freundin in inniger Umarmung zu sehen ist. Dann findet sie das Liebespaar ermordet im Bett. Verzweifelt wendet Reva sich an ihre Mutter, eine Mitarbeiterin von Roarke. Auf seine Bitte hin übernimmt Eve Dallas den undurchsichtigen Fall. Alles spricht für ein simples Eifersuchtsdrama, und Reva wird festgenommen. Eve jedoch ermittelt weiter und sticht in ein giftiges Wespennest aus Verrat, Intrigen und tödlichen Geheimnissen...

On a chilly February night, during a screening of Psycho in midtown, someone sunk an ice pick into the back of Chanel Rylan's neck, then disappeared quietly into the crowds of drunks and tourists in Times Square. To Chanel's best friend, who had just slipped out of the theater for a moment to take a call, it felt as unreal as the ancient black-and-white movie up on the screen. But Chanel's blood ran red, and her death was anything but fictional.

When recovering drug addict Lyle Pickering is found dead of an overdose, it looks like a tragic accident. But his sister Rochelle knows better, and so does Lieutenant Eve Dallas. Lyle was murdered, and the evidence points directly to his old street gang. As Eve and husband Roarke track the killer through the city's dive bars, drug dens and strip joints, another body is discovered.

Dante had been courting his victim in cyberspace for weeks before meeting her in person. A few sips of wine and a few hours later, she was dead. The murder weapon: a rare, usually undetectable date-rape drug with a street value of a quarter million dollars. Detective Eve Dallas is playing and replaying the clues in her mind. The candlelight, the music, the rose petals strewn across the bed - a seduction meant for his benefit, not hers. He hadn't intended to kill her. But now that he has, he is left with only two choices: to either hole up in fear and guilt or start hunting again....

Eve Dallas has solved a lot of high-profile murders for the NYPSD and gotten a lot of media. She - and her billionaire husband - are getting accustomed to being objects of attention, of gossip, of speculation. But now Eve has become the object of one person's obsession. Someone who finds her extraordinary, and thinks about her every hour of every day. Who believes the two of them have a special relationship. Who would kill for her - again and again....

It was just another after-work happy-hour bar downtown, where business professionals unwound with a few drinks, complained about the boss, maybe hooked up with someone for the night. Until something went terribly wrong. At first it was just a friction in the air. The noise intensified. The crowd seemed oppressive. Some sharp words were exchanged, some pushing and shoving. Then the madness descended. And after 12 minutes of chaos and violence, 80 people lay dead.

Three young women have gone missing. They're all pretty, mid-'20s- someone clearly has a type. But no one links their disappearances until the first - Lauren Elder - is found lying peacefully on a bench in a children's playground. She is neatly dressed with a wide black velvet ribbon covering where her neck has been precisely slit. Her hands are folded over a childish sign on which is written in black crayon - 'BAD MOMMY'.

In a New York City fifty years in the future, Detective Eve Dallas tracks down those who break the law - including the ones sworn to uphold it. Eve Dallas and her partner, Peabody, are following up on a brutal, senseless crime - an elderly grocery owner killed by three stoned punks for nothing more than kicks and snacks. And for the first time, Peabody is primary detective on the case, which means she has to get used to a new level of authority and responsibility. Good thing she learned the ropes from a master like Eve. But after rounding up the perps, Peabody stumbles upon a much trickier situation.

Bart Minnock, founder of the computer gaming giant U-Play, enters his private playroom, and eagerly can’t wait to lose himself in an imaginary world, to play the role of a sword-wielding warrior king, in his company’s latest top-secret project, Fantastical.

She calls herself Lady Justice. And once she has chosen a man as her target, she turns herself into a tall blonde or a curvaceous redhead, makes herself as alluring and seductive as possible to them. Once they are in her grasp, they are powerless. The first victim is wealthy businessman Nigel McEnroy. His company’s human resources department has already paid out settlements to a couple of his young victims - but they don’t know that his crimes go far beyond workplace harassment. Lady Justice knows. And in one shocking night of brutality, she makes him pay a much steeper price.

Mina Rose Cabot, age thirteen, disappeared walking home from soccer practice in Devon, Pennsylvania. Eight months later her body is found in Battery Park, New York, speared through the chest by a three-inch piece of wood. Lt. Eve Dallas knows that whoever took Mina is responsible for her death. But who took her and where has Mina been for eight long months?

Amaryllis Coltraine may have recently transferred to the New York City police force from Atlanta, but she's been a cop long enough to know how to defend herself against an assailant. When she's taken down just steps away from her apartment, killed with her own weapon, for Eve the victim isn't just "one of us."

After a tip from a reporter, Eve Dallas finds the body of a young woman in a Delancey Street dumpster. Just hours before, the news station had mysteriously received a portfolio of professional portraits of the woman. The photos seemed to be nothing out of the ordinary for any pretty young woman starting a modeling career. Except that she wasn't a model. And that these photos were taken after she had been murdered. Now Dallas is on the trail of a killer who's a perfectionist and an artist. He carefully observes and records his victim's every move.

Personal trainer Trey Ziegler was in peak physical condition. If you didn't count the kitchen knife in his well-toned chest. Lieutenant Eve Dallas soon discovers a lineup of women who'd been loved and left by the narcissistic gym rat. While Dallas sorts through the list of Ziegler's enemies, she's also dealing with her Christmas shopping list - plus the guest list for her and her billionaire husband's upcoming holiday bash.

While Eve examines a fresh body in Washington Square Park, her husband, Roarke, spots a man among the onlookers he’s known since his younger days on the streets of Dublin. A man who claims to be his half brother. A man who kills for a living - and who burns with hatred for him. Eve is quick to suspect that the victim’s spouse - resentful over his wife’s affair and poised to inherit her fortune - would have happily paid an assassin to do his dirty work. Roarke is just as quick to warn her that if Lorcan Cobbe is the hitman, she needs to be careful.