With a phenomenal career full of bestsellers,
Nora Roberts was ready for a new writing challenge. As her agent put it, like Pepsi, Diet Pepsit and caffeine-free Pepsi, a pseudonym offered her the opportunity to reach a new and different group of readers. The first futuristic suspense
J.D. Robb book,
Naked in Death, was published in 1995 and readers were immediately drawn to Eve Dallas, a tough cop with a dark past and her mysterious love interest, Roarke.
The series quickly gained attention, great reviews and devoted readers. Since the debut of
Loyalty in Death in 1999 on the
New York Times bestseller list, every J.D. Robb title has been a
New York Times bestseller. While fans had their suspicions, it wasn't until the twelfth book in the series,
Betrayal in Death (2001), that the publisher fully revealed that J.D. Robb was really the bestselling powerhouse, Nora Roberts.
The
In Death books are perpetual bestsellers and frequently share the bestseller list with other Nora Roberts novels. J.D. Robb publishes two hardcover
In Death books per year and occassional stand-alone original In Death story featured in an anthology. The
In Death series has received accolades from other blockbuster authors such as Stephen King, Jonathan Kellerman, Janet Evanovich, David Baldacci and others.
Thirty books and fifteen years later, there is no end in sight for the ever-popular J.D. Robb and the
In Death series.
READ-A-LIKES...If you like the work of J.D. Robb (Nora Roberts) try these authors -
Suzanne Brockman - Fans of Robb will appreciate Brockman's bad boy heroes, the insider military details, the richly developed romance and the fast-paced action-filled story. Try titles such as
Breaking Point: a novel,
Flashpoint or
Force of Nature: a novel.
JoAnn Ross - Readers looking for a more suspenseful, romantic tale might try
Crossfire: a high risk novel, or
Freefall: a high risk novel.
Julie Garwood - It is suggested that readers read Garwood's Romantic Suspense novels in order as the secondary character introduced in one book is often the lead character in the next book. The five novels so far are
Heartbreaker, Mercy,
Killjoy,
Murder List and
Slow Burn.
Karen Robards - Robards delivers tightly controlled plots, solid pacing and romance mixed with mayhem. Robb fans would enjoy the novel,
Bait, as well as
Guilty, and
Pursuit.
WATCH-A-LIKES
Sleeping With the Enemy - In this suspenseful romantic thriller, Julia Roberts stars as Laura, a young woman who thinks she's found the man of her dreams in Martin (Patrick Bergin). Only after they are married does she discover the real Martin - compulsive, controlling and dangerously violent. After three years of living in fear and dread, Laura finally escapes, only to have Martin track her down.
Fatal Attraction - A New York Attorney has a romantic fling while his wife is out of town and then shrugs it off. However the woman involved with him won't be ignored, even if it means destroying his family to keep him.
Nora Robert's Blue Smoke - After witnessing an uncontrollable blaze that burns her family's business to the ground, it's no wonder that Reena decides to become an arson investigator. Now years later, Reena decides to visit the old neighborhood, where she finds romance. However Reena is quickly brought back to reality when she discovers that the psycho that haunted her past has resurfaced to wreak havoc in her life. Now Reena must use her sleuthing skills to snare this pyromanic before her life goes up in flames.
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