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Naked in Death
by
J. D. Robb


Book 1 of the Eve Dallas Mysteries




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What's past is prologue.

-- WILLIAM SHAKESPEARE



Violence is as American as cherry pie.

-- RAP (HUBERT GEROLD) BROWN




*** CHAPTER ONE ***



She woke in the dark. Through the slats on the window shades, the first murky
hint of dawn slipped, slanting shadowy bars over the bed. It was like waking in
a cell.

For a moment she simply lay there, shuddering, imprisoned, while the dream
faded. After ten years on the force, Eve still had dreams.

Six hours before, she'd killed a man, had watched death creep into his eyes. It
wasn't the first time she'd exercised maximum force, or dreamed. She'd learned
to accept the action and the consequences.

But it was the child that haunted her. The child she hadn't been in time to