J. D. Robb: In Death Series, Books 33-35: New York to Dallas, Celebrity in Death, Delusion in Death

NEW YORK TO DALLAS: New York homicide cop Eve Dallas is back in an intense and terrifying new case 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 mind and body. The other is to get revenge on the woman who stopped him all those years ago.

CELEBRITY IN DEATH: Some roles are to die for ...Lieutenant Eve Dallas is no party girl, but she's managing to have a reasonably good time at the celebrity-packed bash for The Icove Agenda, a film based on one of her famous cases. It's a little spooky seeing the actress playing her, who looks as though she could be her long-lost twin. Not as unsettling, though, as seeing the actress who plays Peabody drowned in the lap pool on the roof of the director's luxury building.

DELUSION IN DEATH: It was just another after-work happy hour at a bar downtown--until the madness descended. And after twelve minutes of chaos and violence, more than eighty people lay dead.

Lieutenant Eve Dallas is trying to sort out the inexplicable events. Surviving witnesses talk about seeing things--monsters and swarms of bees. They describe sudden, overwhelming feelings of fear and rage and paranoia. When forensics makes its report, the mass delusions make more sense: it appears the bar patrons were exposed to a cocktail of chemicals and illegal drugs that could drive anyone into temporary insanity--if not kill them outright.

But that doesn't explain who would unleash such horror--or why. Eve's husband, Roarke, happens to own the bar, but he's convinced the attack wasn't directed at him. It's bigger than that. And if Eve can't figure it out fast, it could happen again, anytime, anywhere. Because it's airborne...