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The game started with a murder. Now, it´s Eve Dallas´s move.

It is the most puzzling case Eve Dallas has ever faced: the founder of the computer gaming giant U-Play is found decapitated in his locked, private playroom. And now Eve and her team are about to enter the next level of police work, in a world where fantasy is the ultimate seduction-and the price of defeat is death...

In this thriller in the No.1 New York Times bestselling In Death series, it´s game over for the criminals who cross Lieutenant Eve Dallas as she investigates the murder of a virtual reality wunderkind.

Bart Minnock, founder of the computer gaming giant U-Play, is found in his locked private playroom, in a pool of blood, his head separated from his body. Despite his violent end, Eve can´t find anyone-girlfriend and business partners included-who seemed to have a problem with the enthusiastic, high-spirited millionaire.

Of course gaming, like any business, has its fierce rivalries and dirty tricks-as Eve´s husband, Roarke, one of U-Play´s competitors, knows well. But Minnock was not na‹ve, and he knew how to fight back in the real world as well as the virtual one.

Eve and her team are about to enter the next level of police work, in a world where fantasy is the ultimate seduction-and the price of defeat is death...

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"Perennial No. 1 Robb takes the locked-room mystery to a whole new level in her latest gritty puzzler. As always it´s the interpersonal relationships and character connections that breathe real life into her long-running and always riveting series. A most excellent addition!"-RT Book Reviews

More Praise for the In Death series

"Robb is a virtuoso."-Seattle Post-Intelligencer

"It´s Law & Order: SVU-in the future."-Entertainment Weekly

"J. D. Robb´s In Death novels are can´t-miss pleasures."-#1 New York Times bestselling author Harlan Coben

"Anchored by terrific characters, sudden twists that spin the whole narrative on a dime, and a thrills-to-chills ration that will raise the neck hairs of even the most jaded reader, the J. D. Robb books are the epitome of great popular fiction."-New York Times bestselling author Dennis Lehane

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J. D. Robb is the pseudonym for a #1 New York Times bestselling author of more than 200 novels, including the bestselling In Death series. There are more than 500 million copies of her books in print.

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