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NYC Lt. Eve Dallas investigates the death of a young actress with the assistance of her husband Rourke and Detective Peabody.

"The eight-year-old girl appeared in New York' Central Park one day, red-haired, blue-eyed, dirty-faced, smiling widely. She looked perfect, like a porcelain fairy - except for the blood on her shoulders. It fell from the sky, she told the police. It happened while she was looking for her uncle Red, who had turned into a tree. Right, they thought, poor child. Then they found the body in the tree."--back cover.

The Monterey Peninsula is rocked when a killer begins to leave roadside crosses beside local highways - not in memoriam, but as announcements of his intention to kill. And to kill in particularly horrific and efficient ways: using the personal details about the victims that they've carelessly posted in blogs and on social networking websites.

Dr. Sara Linton, who is both the county coroner and the local pediatrician, is running late for her weekly lunch at the local diner with her sister, Tessa. When she gets there, she goes to the washroom to freshen up and is met by a grisly sight. Sibyl Adams, a professor at the local college, is sitting in one of the stalls - stabbed and raped and barely alive.

In "Naked in Death," Eve Dallas is in over her head when she breaks the rules and falls in love with Roarke, an Irish billionaire and a suspect in her most recent case, and in "Glory in Death," Eve Dallas suspects there is a link between the murders of two beautiful and highly successful women.

When a perfectly preserved "mummy" is discovered in the dusty basement of Boston's Crispin Museum and an archaeologist turns up missing, medical examiner Maura Isles and Boston homicide detective Jane Rizzoli have precious little time to derail the Archaeology Killer before he adds another chilling piece to his monstrous collection.