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    New York to Dallas
    New York to Dallas
    New York to Dallas
    Audiobook (abridged)7 hours

    New York to Dallas

    Written by J. D. Robb

    Narrated by Susan Ericksen

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    About this audiobook

    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
    PublisherBrilliance Audio
    Release dateSep 13, 2011
    ISBN9781455825615
    New York to Dallas
    Author

    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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    • 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.
    • 5/5
      New York to Dallas
      4.5 Stars

      A killer from Eve's days as a rookie escapes from prison and challenges her to a game of Cat and Mouse in the city that haunts her nightmares - Dallas, Texas.

      Another excellent addition to the series as Eve comes face to face with the most traumatic experiences of her childhood, and is pushed to the limits of her physical and mental endurance.

      Balancing out her pursuit of one of the more depraved and malicious villains in the books thus far, are moments of love and support from Eve's husband, Roarke as well as their closest friends and allies.

      Looking forward to Eve's next investigation.
    • 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.
    • 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.
    • 2/5
      My first J.D. Robb novel. Was not impressed. Don't like books with excessive profanity
    • 5/5
      Among the better of JD Robb's In Death series.
    • 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.
    • 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.
    • 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.
    • 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.
    • 5/5
      Best book of the series
    • 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.
    • 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.
    • 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.
    • 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.
    • 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.
    • 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.
    • 4/5
      An escaped serial killer with a grudge sends Eve and Rourke back to Dallas. Old memories and family ties come home to roost, and Eve is forced to cope with nightmares from her past while juggling politics of the present. Nothing earthshaking here, just a good, solid, well-plotted story, with appealing characters.
    • 5/5
      Twelve years ago, pedophile Isaac McQueen [who was keeping young girls in cages], was taken down by a rookie New York Police and Security Department cop. But he found a way to escape from the Rikers Island prison complex and was determined to pick up where he left off and to get revenge on the officer who stopped him all those years ago: homicide Lieutenant Eve Dallas.Thirty-third in the “In Death” series, this is [so far] the only book with a different title than the standard “[Something] In Death.” Taking Eve back to Dallas, there’s an extensive focus on Eve’s traumatic backstory and, since the bulk of the narrative is set in Dallas, many of the characters readers have come to expect in an “In Death” tale make only cursory appearances. Isaac McQueen is particularly creepy and vile [and easy for readers to dislike]; the fast pace of the narrative keeps the suspense building. Gut-wrenching and emotional, gritty and intense, many of the questions woven through previous stories finally have answers; readers should grab a box of tissues before starting this one. It is, at times, a difficult read, but it’s also a shining addition to the canon. Don’t miss this one.Highly recommended.
    • 3/5
      Good but didn't enjoy as some of others in series. Peabody & McNab not involved much & missed the more personal side stories that are in some of the other books.
    • 5/5
      30-some volumes into this series, and I'm still in love with Lt. Eve Dallas, Roarke, and their friends. Not to mention their home! I missed Peabody in this book. And the new naming style -- Did J D Robb finally run out of nouns she could place in front of "in Death"? It's amazing how this can keep going. Can't wait for the next one. Do you suppose Eve is ever going to have a baby: how fun that would be!
    • 5/5
      This J.D. Robb book about Eve Dallas has Eve facing up to some of her horrors from when she was a child. Once again if you enjoy these books you will enjoy this one.
    • 5/5
      It was a little different for Eve to not have her usual sidekicks around to much. Also off her homeground to a place she hated to deal with. Found out a little more of her history.I do like the characters in tnis series of books.
    • 3/5
      I'm a fan of the series, but I feel like the past few books have been "phoned in." While lots of stuff in the past is revealed in this one, and some folks liked that...that one particular thing is definitely way too coincidental. I was actually expecting that it would be found to be wrong and that there would be a nice twist of some kind. Then, when it was found to be true...I thought there might be some interesting places to go in the future as a result. But it all got (too) neatly wrapped up. One of the best things about the series, the snappy dialogue from regular characters - particularly Peabody - was missing. The Dallas characters were unmemorable, for the most part. This all sounds kind of harsh...so let me add that...while this isn't my favorite in the series...I still grabbed it immediately, and didn't stop reading until I finished at 3am!
    • 5/5
      New York to Dallas is the 33rd in the series and they’re still fresh, exciting and as always your next must read.Eve Dallas became a cop for a lot of reasons, one was to put monsters like her father away and as a rookie she by accident helped put away a truly evil pedophile Isaac McQueen. But Isaac’s escaped and Eve follows his crimes from New York to Dallas, where it all began for her. She’s without her team but she is able to take along her civilian consultant, Roarke. Being in Dallas brings back Eve’s nightmares and her memories of being a tiny brutalized girl and the longer she’s there the worse it becomes but she’s determined to catch this monster and put him back in his cage permanently so she and Roarke work with the Dallas PD to catch this demon and put him away for good.You’d think after 33 novels in this series that it would loose it’s freshness, it’s intrigue, it’s pull and I have to admit that a few before have fit that description, but not this one, perhaps it’s the plot where Ms. Robb/Roberts takes her readers back to Eve’s origins, where her nightmares were born and she takes us successfully into the psyche of an evil so vile that we have to read it through the slats in our fingers like we used to watch scary movies. Perhaps it’s her characters that keeps it new that although we know these people very well they still surprise us, perhaps it’s because of how human she makes her characters so much so that we can feel their pain and their joy, their horror and their ecstasy. Perhaps it’s the love story between Eve and Roarke that keep it so new, the fact that they never should have been together in the first place and how they just keep making it work. Perhaps it’s the love scenes that keep it shiny and with these two there’s plenty of them. Or perhaps it’s all of these reasons that keep us coming back to Eve Dallas, her friends, her foes and especially her Roarke.If you’ve never read one of these novels you’re either just a visitor on our planet or have lived under a rock but rest assured that you can read this and not suffer for not have read the 32 before it, but if that’s the case my suggestion would be, go back to the beginning, go back and see where and why it all started, go back and be wowed by this truly gifted storyteller. If you’re already a fan, this is all bla bla bla to you any way.Thank you Ms. Robb/Roberts for probably the best romantic suspense fantasy series on this or any planet and as always I can’t wait to see what you come up for these characters next.
    • 4/5
      A monster that Lt. Dallas captured as a rookie breaks out of prison and targets her. So Dallas goes to Dallas, where she has to face echoes of an even older past.The friend/coworker interactions are missing, but it's otherwise good.