Homicide detective Eve Dallas must untangle a twisted family history while a hostage-s life hangs in the balance-in Abandoned in Death by New York Times bestselling author J. D. Robb.
The woman-s body was found in the early morning, on a bench in a New York City playground. She was clean, her hair neatly arranged, her makeup carefully applied. But other things were very wrong-like the tattoo and piercings, clearly new. The clothes, decades out of date. The fatal wound hidden beneath a ribbon around her neck. And the note: Bad Mommy, written in crayon as if by a child.
Eve Dallas turns to the department-s top profiler, who confirms what seems obvious to Eve: They-re dealing with a killer whose childhood involved some sort of trauma-a situation Eve is all too familiar with herself. Yet the clues suggest a perpetrator who-d be roughly sixty years old, and there are no records of old crimes with a similar MO. What was the trigger that apparently
