Encore in Death: An Eve Dallas Novel: 56

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Eve and Peabody head to a café to interview Samantha Keene, who was singing with Eliza when Brant was poisoned. Crommell flips out when Eve enters the shrine he has to Eliza, threatening her with his scrapbook scissors.

Note: "stunner" and "laser" are both terms used interchangeably for the fictional weapons that the NYPSD carry in the In Death books; they release a strong electrical, laser-like stun that can do anything from incapacitating to killing the victim. mix of sarin and sulfur trioxide (drugged, then convinced to handle improperly sealed nerve gas egg) J. D. Robb (pseudonym for Nora Roberts) infuses murder, suspense, and drama in Encore in Death, a well-written futuristic police procedural set in New York City featuring Lieutenant Eve Dallas with the NYC police department and set around 2061. Eve and Peabody head to Queens to visit Eliza’s stalker. He took the day off from work, but they find him at home in all his craziness.

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Samantha says Brant was a sweetheart, that he dropped in on workshops a few times, and he and Eliza had her over for dinner after she got the part. Her parents divorced when she was nine, so it felt good to see a couple who genuinely liked each other. She says Eliza is generous - "if you screw up a number or miss a line too many times, she'll sure as hell let you know it. But she'll work with you until you get it right. And she'll let you know you got it right. She's exacting. She makes me work harder and be better than I might have without her." She takes Eve and Peabody through the event, giving them a picture of who was standing where when Brant drank. Brant Fitzhugh and Eliza Lane - A-listers whose glittering careers saw them rich beyond anyone's dreams. Their marriage was almost ten years long and the party in their apartment was one of both farewell to Brant as he headed to New Zealand the following day for six months, and Eliza as the revival of the stage play of twenty five years ago was due to begin again. Two hundred guests, along with staff, surrounded the pair, but when Eliza and her on-screen daughter Samantha began to sing, to perform, Brant toasted his wife with her champagne. His death was swift - Lieutenant Eve Dallas and Detective Peabody arrived soon after. Lane was a demanding and hard working star and she achieved the reputation of being a bitch and was proud of it. So who is J.D. Robb? Well, she’s Nora Roberts, of course. J.D. Robb is her nom de plume which she used for this series as she and Berkley (one of her publishers) decided to publish the works so that they have no relation to Nora Roberts and her storytelling style. So, though we know it is the same person, this series is essentially the work of a completely different author.

Peabody gives Eve the basics on Novak, and Eve says she will poke around at home, since they have arrived at Vera’s Upper East Side penthouse. The desk clerk is reluctant to interrupt Vera’s Do Not Disturb, so Eve gets to bully her until she’s cleared through. Vera’s droid, a young, fit male, shows them in. a b c Robb, J.D. (2005). "Chapter Thirteen". Survivor in Death. Penguin Publishing Group. ISBN 9781101205006. Eve tells Roarke she gave Peabody two minutes to talk about the Great House Project on the way to Queens [3], but it was really on the way across town to Vera's penthouse from the café where they met Samantha. [4]

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At the morgue, Morris confirms cyanide poisoning and also that the vodka in Bernstein’s stomach was not the brand she was drinking earlier and conveniently left in the room – that one has additives and the brand ingested with cyanide was top-shelf. It was a glittering event full of A-listers, hosted by Eliza Lane and Brant Fitzhugh, a celebrity couple who’d conquered both Hollywood and Broadway. And now Eve Dallas has made her entrance―but not as a guest. After raising a toast, Fitzhugh fell to the floor and died, with physical symptoms pointing to cyanide, and the police have crashed the party. Story Date: Monday, June 28 - Thursday, July 1, 2061 [1] Day 1 - Monday, June 28, 2061 [ ] Chapter 1 [ ] Tinker to Evers to Chance is a DOUBLE PLAY combo not a triple play combo as Eve Mentions to Nadine. At the morgue, Morris confirms that Brant was in good health before death and took care of his body, and he “liked his work, and his activism for the homeless.”

Mira joins them in Interview, where Crommell explains that Brant kept Eliza and him apart by blurring her memory of him – "sorcery." This dark magic caused his (Brant’s) obsession with Eliza, made Eliza press charges and testify against him in court. Eliza is waiting for him now but Brant has minions guarding her still, so they’re not yet together; this requires more white magic on his part, which somehow involves masturbation. He thinks Eliza killed Brant this time, aided by the white magic he used to weaken Brant’s hold. It was a glittering event full of A-listers, hosted by Eliza Lane and Brant Fitzhugh, a celebrity couple who’d conquered both Hollywood and Broadway. And now Eve Dallas has made her entrance—but not as a guest. After raising a toast, Fitzhugh fell to the floor and died, with physical symptoms pointing to cyanide, and the police have crashed the party.Eve drops Peabody at the subway with instructions to dig through gossip stories for people with motives to kill Lane, while she heads home by way of Lane, inviting Roarke to meet her at Lane’s. The doorman there tells Eve how much they all liked Brant: "A hell of a guy. Always took a minute to say hello. Never puffed himself up." Lane was liked as well, and got him house seats to a play once when she heard his wife wanted to see a show. Up in the master bedroom, Lane finishes dressing for the big party. Her husband, Brant Fitzhugh, walks in and tells her how beautiful she is. He too is a famed actor and about to head off to New Zealand for 6 months to both star in and produce a new movie.

It was a glittering event full of A-listers, hosted by Eliza Lane and Brant Fitzhugh, the most glittering of all celebrity couples. Everyone had expected the party to be in the newspapers the next day but not because one of the hosts was murdered! As the crowd had gathered to watch Eliza sing, Fitzhugh had raised a final toast to his glamorous wife and fallen to the floor. Death by cyanide poisoning. It's time for Lt. Eve Dallas to make her entrance. Eve continues winding Lane up, wondering how Brant could leave her for six months, put his career ahead of her and her career, when she clearly needed him there. Peabody adds on, saying it was selfish of him and must have made her feel so unloved, that she’s read about Eliza turning down parts to be there for him. Lane says she won’t settle for being second, for second place, and Peabody says, “why would you? You’re Eliza Lane. You’re the best there is. He broke your heart, and your trust.” Lane says he crushed it by putting himself first, and somehow conflated that into him falling for his costar and humiliating her.Eve heads for the interview with Bernstein, noting a few stray crumbs from Nadine’s bribe in her bullpen along the way. She hits Bernstein with the current charges (possession of fraudulent identification, trespassing, theft, fraud, fleeing from police officers and assault on a police officer, resisting arrest) and some of her aliases (Debbie Starr, Madame Rose, Rose Stein, Leah Starr, and Debra Rose). Bernstein turns on the waterworks, saying she needed the money so she took a job cleaning. Because Naked in Death was somewhat popular, seven other books of the In Death series were spawned. The story of Eve Dallas was well worth the read—and worth telling across various other books. Not only does Eve Dallas have a fierce, fierce heart, she also has strength and the utmost integrity. Her increasingly mushrooming relationship with Roarke, a man of mystifying fellow, is also a big talking point. Harry Bosch and the Lincoln Lawyer team up to exonerate a woman who’s already served five years for killing her ex-husband. He, his roommate, Eliza, and some other cast and crew members of the original production of Upstage were together at Act Two the night Leah Rose died, celebrating the successful final dress rehearsal.