<p/><br></br><p><b> About the Book </b></p></br></br>The "New York Times" #1 bestselling police thriller series featuring futuristic cop Eve Dallas continues in this brand-new, first-time-in-print novel. Author tour for Roberts's next hardcover, "Birthright, " to be released in March 2003. Original.<p/><br></br><p><b> Book Synopsis </b></p></br></br><b>In this novel in the #1 <i>New York Times</i> bestselling In Death series, Lieutenant Eve Dallas faces a serial killer who offers his victims eternal youth by taking their life... <p/></b>After a tip from a reporter, Eve Dallas finds the body of a young woman in a Delancey street dumpster. Just hours before, the news station had mysteriously received a portfolio of professional portraits of the woman. The photos seemed to be nothing out of the ordinary for any pretty young woman starting a modeling career. Except that she wasn't a model. And that these photos were taken after she had been murdered. <p/>Now Dallas is on the trail of a killer who's a perfectionist and an artist. He carefully observes and records his victim's every move. And he has a mission: to own every beautiful young woman's innocence, to capture her youth and vitality--in one fateful shot...<p/><br></br><p><b> Review Quotes </b></p></br></br><br>"<i>Portrait In Death</i> will take you on a rollercoaster ride of emotions. You will go from wanting to laugh to wanting to reach for the box of tissues."--ParaNormal Romance Reviews<i> <p/></i>"The continued emotional growth of all the characters, major and minor, is part of what makes this series such a masterpiece. Darn, but it is hard to be patient until the next spine-tingling installment!"<i>--RT Book Reviews <p/></i>"Intensely female yet unfeminine in any traditional sense, Dallas has a complex edge that transcends genre stereotypes and gives the book's romantic interludes a real charge."--<i>Publishers Weekly<br></i><br><b>More Praise for the In Death series</b> <p/> "Robb is a virtuoso."--<i>Seattle Post-Intelligencer</i> <p/> "It's <i>Law & Order: SVU</i>--in the future."--<i>Entertainment Weekly</i> <p/> "J. D. Robb's In Death novels are can't-miss pleasures."--#1 <i>New York Times</i> bestselling author Harlan Coben <p/> "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."--<i>New York Times</i> bestselling author Dennis Lehane<br><p/><br></br><p><b> About the Author </b></p></br></br><b>J. D. Robb</b> is the pseudonym for a #1 <i>New York Times</i> 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.