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In Death

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In Death	comment	A series of books by Nora Roberts (writing as J.D. Robb), featuring police detective Eve Dallas in 2058 New York City. The series has been described as Law & Order IN THE FUTURE! Despite the traumas of her past leaving her hardened and somewhat asocial, she meets, and later marries Roarke, an enigmatic Irish multi-billionaire with demons of his own. The series concerns Eve and Roarke, along with Eve's partner/best friend Peabody, and their efforts to catch the various killers, psychos, and the occasional case of science gone bad that haunt the streets of 2050s New York City.
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In Death / int_1053b44e	type	Therapy Is for the Weak
In Death / int_1053b44e	comment	Therapy Is for the Weak: Eve isn't very receptive to Mira at first, but she comes around, and even sees psychology as a valuable tool.
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In Death / int_10a6623b	type	Fair Cop
In Death / int_10a6623b	comment	Fair Cop: Trueheart is a rare male example. Even Eve mentally describes him as "hunky".
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In Death / int_11b937fe	type	Never-Forgotten Skill
In Death / int_11b937fe	comment	Never-Forgotten Skill: Roarke was quite the accomplished pickpocket and thief in general in his youth. He still is, actually, and he'll never forget his skills at stealing as long as he lives.
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In Death / int_12e8e69b	type	Jekyll & Hyde
In Death / int_12e8e69b	comment	Jekyll & Hyde: Played straight in Chaos in Death, and good for a serious Oh, Crap! moment.
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In Death / int_13c1fec8	type	Dragon-in-Chief
In Death / int_13c1fec8	comment	At the end of the first novel, the cat Eve brings home from a crime scene becomes this, attacking the Dragon-in-Chief trying to kill Eve in revenge, delaying his final shot long enough for Roarke to pull one too. It's why Eve names him Galahad.
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In Death / int_1439161f	type	Heroic BSoD
In Death / int_1439161f	comment	In Conspiracy in Death, leading to a major Heroic BSoD for Eve and royally pissing off Roarke.
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In Death / int_14908436	type	Never Given a Name
In Death / int_14908436	comment	Never Given a Name: Eve Dallas was given that name at the age of eight by the first-responders who found her wandering the streets. Eve refers to the first woman and Dallas refers to the city she was in. Her worthless parents never bothered with giving her a name.
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In Death / int_1520ad7e	type	Jumping Off the Slippery Slope
In Death / int_1520ad7e	comment	Some of the later books seem to have begun wandering into this area. The idea that justice may be more important than the law isn't too bad itself... but Eve always seems to be the judge of what's justice. Past book thirty or so, she goes from bending the law when it's absolutely necessary to breaking it at will. If she weren't generally presented as unfailingly right, it would almost look like a case of Jumping Off the Slippery Slope.
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In Death / int_1616e13	type	Ripped from the Headlines
In Death / int_1616e13	comment	Ripped from the Headlines: The science gone bad stories often feature concepts that are theoretical now.
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In Death / int_171261c1	type	Enmity with an Object
In Death / int_171261c1	comment	Enmity with an Object: Eve has an irrational fear and hatred of all vending machines. If at all possible she refuses to use them directly, preferring to hand her money to someone else and have them buy the candy bar or whatever for her.
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In Death / int_17501df2	type	Cool Old Guy
In Death / int_17501df2	comment	Cool Old Guy: Pretty much everyone who actually participated on some level in the Urban Wars Took a Level in Badass. Some of them took more than one level and retained it better. Chief Tibble, Commander Whitney, Summerset and Feeney are notable examples, while the killer in Creation In Death is a subversion, being said to avoid all the fighting and shown to be a coward in his old age.
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In Death / int_17942015	type	Remember When You Blew Up a Sun?
In Death / int_17942015	comment	Remember When You Blew Up a Sun?: A number of Eve's more sensational cases get brought up throughout the series, but the Icove case is the most popular. In the novels that follow Origin in Death, the story gets turned into a bestselling book in-universe, and then into a movie. When the movie adaptation wins several Oscars in Leverage in Death, Eve resigns herself to the fact that she is never going to stop hearing about it. Nadine mentions at one point that she's working on another book, based on the case in Delusion in Death, which is probably going to start the cycle all over again.
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In Death / int_18aff462	type	Artistic License â€“ Biology
In Death / int_18aff462	comment	Artistic License â€“ Biology: Naked in Death perpetuates the myth made popular by Goldfinger in a crime anecdote that Feeney relates to Eve, involving a sex offender and murderer who coated his victims head to foot with red paint which suffocated them to death. "Skin's gotta breathe," Feeney explains. In reality, while it certainly wouldn't be healthy for someone to have their skin coated with paint, it wouldn't kill them - certainly not by suffocation, and the police report that Feeney was reading should have provided reasonably accurate information about cause of death. Granted, this is a lead up to a pun, so the whole thing could have been a joke.
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In Death / int_18f2b2b	type	Hypocritical Heartwarming
In Death / int_18f2b2b	comment	Hypocritical Heartwarming: Inverted. Eve will be a jerk to you but be a jerk to her loved ones and she will make you pay.
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In Death / int_19851b86	type	The Sociopath
In Death / int_19851b86	comment	The Sociopath: A large part of murderers in Eve's roster are sociopaths.
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In Death / int_19d06ef7	type	A Father to His Men
In Death / int_19d06ef7	comment	A Father to His Men: Dallas is a Gender Flipped example; although she's a Jerkass and rarely emotional, or maternal, she does feel protective about them and takes pride in their successes. It's reciprocated in kind. From Treachery: Punctuated in Thankless; one of the reasons why Eve passes up the opportunity to be promoted to Captain is because she did not want her men to feel like they had to climb the chain of command simply to talk to her.
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In Death / int_19e41d8f	type	And This Is for...
In Death / int_19e41d8f	comment	And This Is for...: Eve has one after the fact, with the knockout being for the victim.
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In Death / int_1f19f198	type	Back-to-Back Badasses
In Death / int_1f19f198	comment	Back-to-Back Badasses: Eve and Roarke on at least two occasions.
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In Death / int_20d965e	type	Gentleman Thief
In Death / int_20d965e	comment	Gentleman Thief: Roarke and Summerset are both former ones, but their skill is undiminished. Roarke, at least, keeps in practice.
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In Death / int_22a27b19	type	Alpha Bitch
In Death / int_22a27b19	comment	Alpha Bitch: Sometimes victims, sometimes murderers. Bitch in Sheep's Clothing: They have this facade before revealing their true colors.
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In Death / int_241ca0d8	type	Back for the Dead
In Death / int_241ca0d8	comment	Back for the Dead: After playing a small but significant role in Glory in Death, celebrity gossip reporter Larinda Mars goes more or less completely unmentioned for over forty novels before playing a major role in Secrets in Death - as the murder victim.
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In Death / int_24400cfe	type	Not-So-Fake Prop Weapon
In Death / int_24400cfe	comment	Not-So-Fake Prop Weapon: In Witness in Death, the lead actor in a stage production of Witness for the Prosecution dies on stage because someone switched a prop knife out with a real one. Subverted; the person who made the switch was the actress who used it to stab the victim during the play, and knew all along what she was doing.
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In Death / int_24a2f154	type	Sailor's Ponytail
In Death / int_24a2f154	comment	Sailor's Ponytail: Roarke has longish hair which he normally wears loose, but when sitting down to do some intensive technical work he pulls it back in a stubby ponytail which the narration, via Eve's point of view, describes as making him look vaguely piratical
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In Death / int_25208c30	type	Go Through Me
In Death / int_25208c30	comment	Go Through Me: When Chief Simpson threatens to demote Eve and Feeney to Traffic Detail in Naked in Death, Whitney inervenes on their favor and says Simpson will have to go through him.
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In Death / int_26fb2f9e	type	Past Experience Nightmare
In Death / int_26fb2f9e	comment	Past Experience Nightmare: Eve, often dragged out of them by Roarke. Earlier in the series, certain things will make her lapse into flashback when awake. In later books, as she's begun to resolve some of her Dark and Troubled Past, the flashbacks are less common and the dreams have gradually evolved from panic-inducing nightmares into calmer and semi-lucid, if no less unsettling, dream conversations with the victim(s) and sometimes the perps of the investigation du jour. Roarke himself finds himself in these situations as well, though not as often as Eve. Most of the nightmares tend to occur when a case reminds him of (or directly involves) his past or his father, though these dreams don't usually garner as dramatic a reaction as Eve's. The dreams that do get that reaction, however, are the ones that involve seeing Eve hurt or killed.
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In Death / int_2764d432	type	Bitch in Sheep's Clothing
In Death / int_2764d432	comment	Bitch in Sheep's Clothing: They have this facade before revealing their true colors.
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In Death / int_27725a69	type	Nice Character, Mean Actor
In Death / int_27725a69	comment	Nice Character, Mean Actor: In Celebrity in Death, the actress who plays Peabody in the Icove movie turns out to be a vindictive, obsessively jealous bitch who tries to intimidate, blackmail, and/or stalk various coworkers and associates.
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In Death / int_27ae751	type	Swiss Bank Account
In Death / int_27ae751	comment	Swiss Bank Account: Any number of perps use numbered accounts in foreign banks as a means of hiding illegal transactions and ill-gotten gains, beginning with Chief Simpson in Naked in Death. Tracking these down and making sense of the figures is a job often delegated to Roarke, whose combination of financial expertise and hacking skills makes him very good at it.
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In Death / int_2a090d00	type	Lampshade Hanging
In Death / int_2a090d00	comment	This gets a Lampshade Hanging when a cop called Carmichael ends up transferred to Eve's division despite there already being a Detective Carmichael. The two are thereafter referred to as "Carmichael" and "Uniform Carmichael"/"the other Carmichael" to differentiate them, with Eve complaining (during Indulgence in Death) that both of them having the same name is confusing and one of them should change theirs.
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In Death / int_2ae29c0d	type	The Dreaded
In Death / int_2ae29c0d	comment	The Dreaded: The departmental grapevine is apparently "more scared of [Eve] than Oberman". Eve's response:
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In Death / int_2b5ea43c	type	Bland-Name Product
In Death / int_2b5ea43c	comment	Bland-Name Product: For various things, and averted on so few occasions that you might start wondering about Product Placement (or at least Author Appeal), since Pepsi seems to be one of the only, if not the only, major brand to survive the Urban Wars. There's also the various drugs like Zoner, Zeus, and Exotica, which in function and approach they're basically just Marijuana, Cocaine, and Ecstasy. Would probably be just Future Slang if the series didn't try to point out that they're actually supposed to be distinct substances. (And yet, the originals have apparently disappeared from use. No one ever tokes some weed or snorts some coke, it's always Zoner or Zeus.)
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In Death / int_2bdae2ae	type	Awesome, but Impractical
In Death / int_2bdae2ae	comment	Awesome, but Impractical: Traditional firearms have become status symbols within the setting, due to the universal ban on them (to the point that even the police can't use them) meaning that if you own one, you have the money to afford not only the gun but the collector's permit required to legally own one. On the other hand, though, due to the ban, ammunition is incredibly rare, meaning that even using a gun for self-defense is extremely costly, especially when a blaster or pocket stunner can practically be bought at your local corner store for all one's self-defense needs.
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In Death / int_2d364c81	type	Tomboy and Girly Girl
In Death / int_2d364c81	comment	Tomboy and Girly Girl: Dallas and Peabody. One's the hard-charging badass cop, the other tries to be. But their reactions to Trina the stylist (Dallas: Dear God no!, Peabody: Let me at it!) really bring it home. Also Dallas and Mavis. And Dallas and Dr. Mira. Really, any other female character in the series is girly compared to Eve. Most of the men are girly compared to Eve, sometimes Roarke will know more about feminine matters than Eve herself. Which isn't hard, to tell the truth.
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In Death / int_2ed5e99d	type	Depraved Bisexual
In Death / int_2ed5e99d	comment	Depraved Bisexual: Selina Cross in Ceremony in Death comes to mind. She sacrifices little children to the devil, raped countless curious onlookers in her Satanist Club, drove a girl to suicide by stalking her with robotic pets and need we mention she's a Satanic drug dealer?
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In Death / int_2f1fa94c	type	Mysterious Middle Initial
In Death / int_2f1fa94c	comment	Mysterious Middle Initial: Thomas X. Brennen and Walter C. Pettibone.
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In Death / int_2f226fee	type	You Didn't Ask
In Death / int_2f226fee	comment	You Didn't Ask: In Naked in Death, Roarke mentions that DeBlass used to buy guns from the black market. When Eve asks why he didn't tell her before, he says she didn't ask.
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In Death / int_3016de81	type	Reincarnation Romance
In Death / int_3016de81	comment	Reincarnation Romance: zig-zagged. In Ceremony in Death the Wiccan Priestess Isis (who is a registered psychic) tells Roarke that this isn't the first lifetime that he and Eve have loved each other. Roarke likes the idea but remains politely skeptical.
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In Death / int_3036294e	type	Scary Black Man
In Death / int_3036294e	comment	Scary Black Man: Chief Tibble and Crack, in very different fashions: as Da Chief, Tibble is a stern, intimidating authority figure. Crack, meanwhile, is the heavily-tattooed bouncer of a dive bar in a bad part of town, who's actually a nice guy when he's not angry.
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In Death / int_308a5ff0	type	Strange Minds Think Alike
In Death / int_308a5ff0	comment	Strange Minds Think Alike: In Witness in Death, Eve answers the assertion that Roarke would jump in front of a maxibus for her by saying, "They don't go very fast." Later in the book she asks Roarke, who was not present for the original conversation, if he would jump in front of a maxibus for her. His reply is, "Absolutely. They don't go very fast."
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In Death / int_33c2b1e2	type	Best Served Cold
In Death / int_33c2b1e2	comment	Best Served Cold: Prior to the series, Roarke meticulously planned and executed 7 murders across the globe, over the course of a decade. The victims earned it.
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In Death / int_3555a597	type	Sympathetic Murder Backstory
In Death / int_3555a597	comment	Sympathetic Murder Backstory: Both Eve and Roarke turn out to have murder in their backstories. As a child, Eve stabbed her father to death in self-defense when he raped and beat her. Roarke, meanwhile, turns out in Vengeance in Death to have gone on a Roaring Rampage of Revenge and killed several men involved in the rape, torture, and death of Summerset's daughter Marlena. It's eventually revealed that Summerset was the one who killed Roarke's father. He did so because Patrick was demanding Summerset hand Roarke back over to him, threatening to have both Roarke and Marlena raped and then use his connections in the local police to have Summerset accused of abusing them. As the person themselves put it with quiet dignity:
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In Death / int_35fb4e55	type	Declining Promotion
In Death / int_35fb4e55	comment	Declining Promotion: Lt. Dallas has, in the in-story span of two and a half years, solved so many spectacular cases that she's now a public celebrity, especially following the incredibly high-profile resolution of the Icove case in Origin in Death. In Thankless in Death, she was offered a captaincy but declined on the grounds that while she could be a good captain, she's more useful in the field.
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In Death / int_36c64123	type	Gentle Giant
In Death / int_36c64123	comment	Gentle Giant: Leonardo, Crack when he's not angry and Detective Strong's flatmate from Treachery In Death
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In Death / int_37499c8	type	OnceAnEpisode
In Death / int_37499c8	comment	Eve's ongoing feud with all sorts of mechanical and/or electronic systems. For example, the drink machine at Eve's precinct which seems to hate her as much she hates it. It's practically Once a Novel that she orders someone else to get her a tube of Pepsi from the thing.
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In Death / int_37cee864	type	Real Award, Fictional Character
In Death / int_37cee864	comment	Real Award, Fictional Character: The movie based on Nadine's book about the Icove case, The Icove Agenda, ends up winning several Oscars including Best Actress and Best Picture. Nadine herself takes home the gold statue for Best Adapted Screenplay.
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In Death / int_38bf28e3	type	Engineered Public Confession
In Death / int_38bf28e3	comment	Engineered Public Confession: Eve pulls this off at the end of Purity in Death and Innocent in Death, though the latter was designed for one person.
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In Death / int_38d12399	type	Teens Are Monsters
In Death / int_38d12399	comment	By comparison, Willow Mackie in Apprentice in Death got a slightly later start, killing twenty-five people with a long-range tactical laser at the age of fifteen. She eventually reveals that the killing spree was her idea, masterminded over the course of a year, with the intent of continuing into a hundred-victim mass shooting starting at her school. Even before that, she'd threatened her stepfather, seven-year-old half-brother, and several other people on numerous occasions, not to mention killing her half-brother's puppy by breaking its neck and throwing it out a third-story window to land at the boy's feet as he came home.
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In Death / int_3bf7904f	type	Vengeful Vending Machine
In Death / int_3bf7904f	comment	Vengeful Vending Machine: Eve Dallas hates vending machines, and the feeling seems to be mutual. They tend to malfunction whenever she attempts to use one. It's so bad that she habitually has someone else put her money in for her and press the button whenever she wants to buy something from one.
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In Death / int_3c0a4666	type	Noodle Incident
In Death / int_3c0a4666	comment	In Devoted in Death another pair of detectives in Eve's team are sent down to Texas, and the male detective comes back wearing a Stetson, to general ridicule. He explains that he lost a bet to his female partner (possibly involving a mechanical bull) and has to wear it for a week as his penance. Every alternative book since, Eve runs into the detective while he's wearing the Stetson around the bullpen, and asks why. The answer is always "I lost a bet [to his partner] about..." It gets to the point where Eve simply asks, "What was the bet?"
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In Death / int_3e16e61c	type	Villain by Default
In Death / int_3e16e61c	comment	Villain by Default: There's plenty of those, with drug dealers, pedophiles, defense attorneys, and others.
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In Death / int_3f11ef74	type	Parental Substitute
In Death / int_3f11ef74	comment	Parental Substitute: Mira and Feeney for Eve. Summerset for Roarke, and later, his long lost Irish relative.
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In Death / int_3fafbfd4	type	Soap Opera Rapid Aging Syndrome
In Death / int_3fafbfd4	comment	Soap Opera Rapid Aging Syndrome: A minor example, as Mavis's daughter Bella is born in January of 2060 in Born in Death but by the summer (Treachery in Death) she is up walking and (kind of) talking. But in Devoted in Death, set in early January 2061, it's mentioned her first birthday is coming up.
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In Death / int_4133a8bc	type	Forgets to Eat
In Death / int_4133a8bc	comment	Forgets to Eat: Eve, unless it's junk food. Roarke goes to great pains to make sure she stays fed. More subtly, so do Summerset and Peabody. It apparently gets so bad that Roarke had an mini Auto-Chef installed in her car.
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In Death / int_437e70f5	type	What a Piece of Junk
In Death / int_437e70f5	comment	What a Piece of Junk: Eve's latest car is a gift from Roarke, and is fast, reliable, and filled with all sorts of gadgets, including Vertical Mode and a built-in Auto-Chef....however, from the outside, it looks like a junker. This is both for protection, since Eve often has to park her vehicle in seedy areas where an obviously expensive car would be a magnet for theft and vandalism, and so as not to draw resentment from other cops who would see driving a flashy vehicle as an indication that Eve was more interested in personal appearances than her job.
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In Death / int_443b78cd	type	Tranquil Fury
In Death / int_443b78cd	comment	Tranquil Fury: Roarke is the champion of this trope within the series; Eve is actually more concerned about Roarke when he gets like this than when his anger shows in his actions. Compounded by the fact that his natural demeanor is calm, polite, and openly friendly, and that the change from genuine affability to "he-is-about-to-literally-murder-you-and-burn-everything-you-hold-dear-without-even-breaking-his-smile" is so subtle that victims of his wrath don't even realize the danger until he's holding them by the throat or gleefully describing the ways he will destroy them.
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In Death / int_44c38f1f	type	Motherhood Is Superior
In Death / int_44c38f1f	comment	Motherhood Is Superior: Averted with Eve Dallas, because while her father Richard Troy was a child molester, her mother, who has many names, is fully revealed to be evil as well in New York To Dallas. Initially subverted with Roarke, with Meg Roarke and Patrick Roarke being equally uncaring Abusive Parents, but in Portrait In Death he learns that his birth mother was actually a sweet young woman named Siobhan Brody, who loved him and didn't see what a monster Patrick Roarke was until it was too late.
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In Death / int_4536fd29	type	Energy Weapon
In Death / int_4536fd29	comment	Energy Weapon: "Blasters" are the new personal defense sidearms on the streets of New York, rendering "antique" firearms obsolete, though with firearms universally banned in the setting, you won't see many outside of collections anyways. The main advantage of blasters over firearms is their ability to adjust the lethality of their bolts (ranging from a nerve disruptor setting that has a similar effect as a stun gun with more range, to literally being able to bore a hole through your skull), and as such have all but replaced firearms in every market, from civilian to military. Laser weapons also make an appearance, essentially serving the role as the blaster's heavier cousins.* Don't bother mentioning how all these capabilities kind of renders banning firearms moot in the first place.
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In Death / int_46b3ec7c	type	Fun Personified
In Death / int_46b3ec7c	comment	Fun Personified/Genki Girl: Mavis.
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In Death / int_46e6a4fd	type	Powers via Possession
In Death / int_46e6a4fd	comment	Powers via Possession: In Possession in Death, Eve get possessed by an old gypsy's ghost and seems to gain a few powers, of sorts. She can read Russian and Romanian, and see dead people. When the spirit leaves, she offers to give Eve her gift of seeing the dead, but is turned down.
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In Death / int_4781adbb	type	Jerk with a Heart of Gold
In Death / int_4781adbb	comment	Jerk with a Heart of Gold: Eve is blunt, prickly, and confrontational toward most people. Her relationships with no few of her friends and colleagues are characterized by snark and bickering, and she takes opportunities to threaten or insult suspects and unhelpful witnesses with unabashed glee. At the same time, she feels a very personal responsibility to see justice done for the victims in her cases, and takes pains to be gentle (if awkward) with people who are suffering. Her belligerence is mostly dished out to people who can take and give it back or who have earned it by being jerks themselves, and she's a loyal and protective friend to the people who have come to matter to her. Aside from Eve, there's Chief Technician Dickie "Dickhead" Berenski in the NYPSD crime lab. He's whiny, sleazy, and routinely expects if not demands bribes from detectives to prioritize their cases, but he comes through when it matters and and he's supportive and protective of the crime lab techs who work for him.
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In Death / int_496569e8	type	Race Against the Clock
In Death / int_496569e8	comment	Race Against the Clock: Whitney gives Eve 36 hours to either book Roarke or rule him out as a suspect. Later, when Eve summons Roarke to answer questions, she says he has 48 hours to show up or the Station Guard will escort him. He complies.
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In Death / int_49f6a9e4	type	Most Writers Are Writers
In Death / int_49f6a9e4	comment	Most Writers Are Writers: The case in Dark in Death is connected to a series of murder mystery novels, with the author serving as a witness/consultant to the investigation. There is, duly, quite a bit of discussion regarding the process of writing and publishing and the manner in which writers and their readers engage with fictional characters, as well as a few very pointed observations about how shipping and fan entitlement can get out of hand.
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In Death / int_4aaffbd5	type	I Never Said It Was Poison
In Death / int_4aaffbd5	comment	I Never Said It Was Poison: In "Seduction in Death", Evie notifies Lucias Dunwood of his grandfather's death. She later tells her colleagues Dunwood knew which grandfather was killed in spite of both grandfathers living in New York and Eve never being specific.
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In Death / int_4c2892a3	type	ThereAreNoPsychologists
In Death / int_4c2892a3	comment	There Are No Psychologists: Averted. Charlotte Mira serves both as Eve's confidante and case consultant/The Profiler. Eve has also been known to recommend Dr. Mira to others who've gone through especially traumatic experiences, and Nadine is revealed to have some sessions with her as well.
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In Death / int_4c6f26c	type	Socially Awkward Hero
In Death / int_4c6f26c	comment	Socially Awkward Hero: Eve isn't the most socially-adjusted person by far, with a very notable aversion towards anything she considers "girly", which is justified given the absolutely horrific things she experienced at the hands of her Grade-A Scumbag parents when she was a girl. However, with the help of Peabody and the other friends she makes during the course of the series, she is able to overcome her traumas and be more open-minded about doing "girly" things with them.
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In Death / int_4dc13d51	type	Grand Romantic Gesture
In Death / int_4dc13d51	comment	Grand Romantic Gesture: Roarke has a lot of resources at his disposal and he's more than willing to use all of them to show Eve how he feels about her. Among a multitude of other examples, he has the cheap apartment that she was living in at the start of the series fully and accurately recreated within his own mansion, in order to give Eve a space in the house that she can feel comfortable in.
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In Death / int_4f4372e9	type	Early-Installment Weirdness
In Death / int_4f4372e9	comment	In later books the more supernatural/fantastical elements tend to be relegated to the short stories and novelas between the main novels. Someone who hasn't bothered to track those down could be forgiven for thinking that the maybe magic stuff was all pretty much Early-Installment Weirdness.
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In Death / int_4f6d87f7	type	Huge Guy, Tiny Girl
In Death / int_4f6d87f7	comment	Huge Guy, Tiny Girl: Leonardo ("built like a redwood") and Mavis ("pixielike").
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In Death / int_4ff0627a	type	Suspect Existence Failure
In Death / int_4ff0627a	comment	Suspect Existence Failure: This trope popped up in Innocent In Death. After Craig Foster's murder, Eve Dallas ends up focusing on Reed Williams as the prime suspect. Take a wild guess on what happens next.
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In Death / int_504a1991	type	Body Horror
In Death / int_504a1991	comment	Body Horror: At the end of Chaos in Death, it is revealed that killer was not only suffering from a split personality, but had somehow developed a method of drastically transforming his body.
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In Death / int_50b05d30	type	Disproportionate Retribution
In Death / int_50b05d30	comment	Disproportionate Retribution: There is a general attitude in the series that murder is rarely a proportionate response to a situation, but even so, there are cases that stand out in how incredibly petty the murderer's reasons for ending the life of another human being turn out to be. Once again, Innocent in Death is a particularly notable example: Craig Foster was murdered painfully via ricin poisoning because he gave Rayleen Straffo an A-minus on her project instead of an A-plus or an A.
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In Death / int_50f50a5e	type	Donut Mess with a Cop
In Death / int_50f50a5e	comment	Donut Mess with a Cop: Every few novels or so you can expect someone to bring a box of donuts or other baked goods into Cop Central - most often Nadine, who uses them to bribe her way into Eve's office. A feeding frenzy is inevitable, and the cop who takes care to set a donut aside for a colleague is considered a thoughtful person indeed.
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In Death / int_518de95b	type	Always Murder
In Death / int_518de95b	comment	Always Murder: Justified. Eve is a detective in the Homicide division, so she'd have little basis to investigate if murder weren't at least suspected.
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In Death / int_53c3fa83	type	Granola Girl
In Death / int_53c3fa83	comment	Granola Girl: Peabody was raised this way, but has mostly rejected the lifestyle. Occasionally some of her old Free Ager habits pop up, invariably to commentary from Eve.
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In Death / int_553c2ade	type	Sympathetic Villain, Despicable Villain
In Death / int_553c2ade	comment	Sympathetic Villain, Despicable Villain: Origin in Death features two main antagonists in Dr. Jonah D. Wilson and Deena Flavia. Dr. Jonah is a vile Evilutionary Biologist who wants to mold humanity into his egomaniacal vision and has for centuries been cloning young men or women to make them into spies or sex slaves for the highest bidder. In contrast, Deena Flavia is a clone and Professional Killer created by Dr. Jonah who now wants to save the rest of her clone sisters and put a stop to his operation once and for all by killing off the members of his conspiracy.
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In Death / int_554063c6	type	If You Kill Him, You Will Be Just Like Him!
In Death / int_554063c6	comment	If You Kill Him, You Will Be Just Like Him!: Played with. The killer in one novel murdered a foster mother who abused both her and Eve, and told Eve that they were similar enough to have done the same. Eve says no, she wouldn't. Most of the time, Eve has to speak to Roarke about this to stop him doing something he'll regret. Actually it's more often her stopping him from doing something she'll regret. Roarke, to judge by past example, seems like he'd be perfectly fine with it, but he respects that there are lines it would make Eve unhappy for him to cross.
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In Death / int_556a3059	type	The Empath
In Death / int_556a3059	comment	The Empath: Peabody's father and brother are this, and the former theorizes that Eve might be too.
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In Death / int_581f6468	type	Hero of Another Story
In Death / int_581f6468	comment	Hero of Another Story: The other Homicide detectives, particularly Baxter and Trueheart, close their own cases and report to Eve throughout the series. This is even lampshaded in the narration, which describes them as "the leads in a buddy movie."
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In Death / int_5beef860	type	Why Did It Have to Be Snakes?
In Death / int_5beef860	comment	Why Did It Have to Be Snakes?: Eve has a severe fear of heights. Only her iron discipline keeps her from externalizing her strong internal reaction. She also has a fear of cows, but it's not as violent. Both of these are symptomatic of a general case of semi-agoraphobia, derived from living in large cities all her (remembered) life. Both shrink as to nothing compared to her fear and loathing of anything even vaguely resembling a hospital. In fact, no matter how injured or fatigued she is the only way to get her to submit to treatment is if she's unconscious and/or physically restrained. It verges on the masochistic. Given one of Eveâ€™s first memories after murdering her hideously abusive father is waking up in a hospital and being asked questions by doctors and police she simply canâ€™t answer, â€œwho are you, where are your parents, etc,â€� this is kind of understandable.
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In Death / int_5f3d3c83	type	Psycho Supporter
In Death / int_5f3d3c83	comment	Psycho Supporter: The murderer in Obsession in Death styles themself as Eve's "true and loyal friend," murdering people who they perceive as having offended or injured Eve and escaped or otherwise flouted justice. Given the confrontational attitude that Eve takes with just about everyone, she quickly realizes with discomfort that the list of potential future victims is uncountably long.
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In Death / int_5f861d0f	type	Only Friend
In Death / int_5f861d0f	comment	Only Friend: At the start of the series, Mavis is Eve's one and only friend (with Feeney as more of an authority / surrogate father figure). Before Mavis, she had no friends at all, and well into the series she expresses her bewilderment at the fact that she's somehow accumulated a steadily-expanding number of people who care about her and who matter to her in turn.
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In Death / int_5fcedca	type	Big Eater
In Death / int_5fcedca	comment	Big Eater: Peabody is always nagging Eve to stop for food. It's subtly hinted she may also be doing this to make sure Dallas eats.
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In Death / int_60441d9	type	Future Slang
In Death / int_60441d9	comment	Future Slang: Drugs are chems, sedatives are soothers, painkillers are blockers and sneakers are skids, just to name a few. The most common expressions of approval are "mag" (possibly from "magnificent") and "iced" or variations upon it (as in "cool").
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In Death / int_61b8f9e2	type	Bunny-Ears Lawyer
In Death / int_61b8f9e2	comment	Bunny-Ears Lawyer: The Electronic Detectives Division (EDD) and the crime lab have significantly more relaxed standards of dress and behavior as compared to most of the rest of the NYPSD, and the cops who work in these departments tend to be fairly colorful characters. In Apprentice in Death Eve meets an EDD detective who speaks in Future Slang so impenetrable she has to have McNabb translate for her.
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In Death / int_6201e8b0	type	I Have Your Wife
In Death / int_6201e8b0	comment	I Have Your Wife: The perps in Leverage in Death target married men who have a young child, holding the wife and child hostage to compel their victim to carry out a suicide bombing.
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In Death / int_6220d661	type	Loony Fan
In Death / int_6220d661	comment	Loony Fan: In Obsession in Death, Eve is obliged to start reviewing her considerable accumulation of fanmail for correspondence that may have come from the novel's UNSUB. She's disturbed to discover that she has quite a few loony fans who, despite having never met or interacted with her in person, have constructed elaborate delusions of personal relationships with her.
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In Death / int_627264e0	type	Death Glare
In Death / int_627264e0	comment	Death Glare: Most of the older characters have one, but the prize has to go to Roarke, as seeing it was described as "[looking] into the face of murder.". He's willing and capable of the act, but usually doesn't because there is either no point, or more common, it would upset Eve.
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In Death / int_63b02752	type	Hair-Trigger Temper
In Death / int_63b02752	comment	Hair-Trigger Temper: Eve is pretty much an irritable dick to everyone around her. All the time. Even when she's in a good mood.
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In Death / int_63be4131	type	Pretty Boy
In Death / int_63be4131	comment	Pretty Boy: Roarke has a talent for inspiring Perverse Sexual Lust in Eve's female associates, to her annoyance. There's also Charles Monroe, for whom it is an asset to his (former) line of work as a Licensed Companion. Chief Medical Examiner Li Morris, described by Peabody as "seriously sexy," is a Long-Haired Pretty Boy with black hair, "exotic" dark eyes, and a sense of style that Eve describes as "like an uptown rock star."
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In Death / int_63c6a75c	type	Evil Lawyer Joke
In Death / int_63c6a75c	comment	Evil Lawyer Joke: In Ceremony in Death, Eve wonders if a "lawyer witch" can be considered redundancy.
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In Death / int_6454966e	type	World War III
In Death / int_6454966e	comment	World War III: The Urban Wars, a period of very violent worldwide civil unrest. Roarke mentions that it ran longer in Ireland than most places.
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In Death / int_648fe274	type	But for Me, It Was Tuesday
In Death / int_648fe274	comment	But for Me, It Was Tuesday: Grogin killed so many people on Patrick Roarke's orders he can't remember if Siobhan's brother was among them.
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In Death / int_658854ee	type	I'm a Doctor, Not a Placeholder
In Death / int_658854ee	comment	I'm a Doctor, Not a Placeholder: In "Reunion in Death", parole Officer Otto Shultz justifies the decision to pass Julianna Dunne out of the system because he's "a PO, not a fortune-teller".
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In Death / int_663f35c0	type	Only One Name
In Death / int_663f35c0	comment	Only One Name: Roarke. Nora Roberts has stated that she will not reveal his given name.
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In Death / int_66755d29	type	Author Avatar
In Death / int_66755d29	comment	Author Avatar: Eve to Nora Roberts, made blatant in some book covers where Nora Roberts cosplays as her own character.
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In Death / int_69681e01	type	Big Brother Instinct
In Death / int_69681e01	comment	Big Brother Instinct: Roarke tends to harbor protective instincts toward Eve's female colleagues, though they're not particularly weak. This is probably due to his deceased mother.
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In Death / int_6bcfbc7e	type	Fantasy Gun Control
In Death / int_6bcfbc7e	comment	Fantasy Gun Control: Of a strange sort. On one hand, all firearms have been banned in the United States outside of collector's pieces and special permits, even for police forces. On the other, however, "Blasters" have risen in popularity to fill the vacuum, meaning the streets are still as dangerous as ever.
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In Death / int_6bda9a30	type	Meaningful Name
In Death / int_6bda9a30	comment	Meaningful Name: the 50th book will be called Golden in Death, as in a 'golden' Fiftieth wedding anniversary.
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In Death / int_6c6d32a0	type	The Maiden Name Debate
In Death / int_6c6d32a0	comment	The Maiden Name Debate: Eve keeps her maiden name after marrying Roarke, and is quick to shut down the clueless who try to call her "Lt. Roarke" (or worse, "Mrs. Roarke").
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In Death / int_6fc21d06	type	Fiction 500
In Death / int_6fc21d06	comment	Fiction 500: Roarke is one of the wealthiest individuals in the world, possibly the wealthiest. Eve frequently snarks about him buying whole countries; the reader may be forgiven for getting the impression that this is only kind of an exaggeration, given that any business or building Eve's investigations lead her to runs approximately a fifty-fifty chance or better of being owned by Roarke Industries or a branch thereof. And if it's not, chances are he considered buying it at one point or other. Eve eventually more or less gets used to it after a couple years of marriage, although she complains (in Innocent in Death) that his corporate policy directing all of his businesses to give her whatever information she asks for without question takes the fun out of verbally sparring with uncooperative employees.
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In Death / int_71329e49	type	Turn in Your Badge
In Death / int_71329e49	comment	Turn in Your Badge: When Eve is called out for getting personally involved with Roarke in spite of the latter being a suspect of a murder she's investigating, she tells Whitney he'll have to take her badge if he pulls her off the case. He refuses. She declares that, if she turns out to be wrong about Roarke being innocent, her superiors won't have to ask for her badge. In Conspiracy in Death, leading to a major Heroic BSoD for Eve and royally pissing off Roarke.
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In Death / int_71598ac8	type	Internal Affairs
In Death / int_71598ac8	comment	Internal Affairs: Generally portrayed more positively than is usual for crime-and-punishment fiction, but Eve (and everyone else) still has the usual prejudice against them. Eve seems to think that regular cops should catch dirty cops (how she considers this particularly different than the "rat squad" is unclear). Of course, in the process of catching dirty cops, Eve tends to break departmental regulations and full-blown laws like they were bubbles on bubble wrap.
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In Death / int_720e28a4	type	Bread, Eggs, Breaded Eggs
In Death / int_720e28a4	comment	Bread, Eggs, Breaded Eggs: During the first time Eve receives a gift from Roarke, Mavis tries to guess what it is. Her first three guesses are: diamonds, a necklace, and a diamond necklace.
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In Death / int_7276d0de	type	Mugging the Monster
In Death / int_7276d0de	comment	Mugging the Monster: Eve's abusive former foster mother discovers that Eve has married into the Fiction 500 and tries to blackmail Roarke. Roarke is not having it, already has six killings under his belt, and is very protective of Eve. He terrifies the woman into retreat. She dies, but he didn't do it.
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In Death / int_7301ae04	type	Serial Killer
In Death / int_7301ae04	comment	Serial Killer: Several, but particularly The Groom from Creation in Death.
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In Death / int_7434bef6	type	SinsOfTheFather
In Death / int_7434bef6	comment	Sins of the Father: Subverted. Roarke's father was a notorious and cruel criminal, a reputation Roarke has had to go to some effort to shake off (Roarke doesn't hit women for example, unless when sparring) to the extent it makes him The Dreaded, although his own history adds to it too. When he finds out he has family on his real mother's side he expects them to blame him for her death and want some of his money in recompense. Instead they welcome him with open arms.
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In Death / int_76cde6e	type	Better the Devil You Know
In Death / int_76cde6e	comment	Better the Devil You Know: As much as Roarke hated his father, he didn't trust the system to protect him "and had figured better the devil you know".
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In Death / int_771f6307	type	Brother–Sister Incest
In Death / int_771f6307	comment	Brotherâ€“Sister Incest: Holiday in Death, Piper and Rudy Hoffman. A rare case of it being completely consensual; Mira points this out to Eve after Mira assesses them both.
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In Death / int_77ed6b7d	type	Troubling Unchildlike Behavior
In Death / int_77ed6b7d	comment	Troubling Unchildlike Behavior: Eve and Roarke's childhoods were not good. Also, Rayleen Straffo in Innocent in Death.
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In Death / int_780a078e	type	Self-Made Orphan
In Death / int_780a078e	comment	Self-Made Orphan: Eve. Both parents, with 20 years in between. Justified like you wouldn't believe, though.
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In Death / int_7a2d9301	type	Pop-Cultural Osmosis Failure
In Death / int_7a2d9301	comment	Pop-Cultural Osmosis Failure: Eve has very little awareness of or interest in pop culture, to the point that her failure to recognize references is a minor Running Gag. Presumably this comes from her lack of a childhood, extreme focus on police work, and general isolation from most other people prior to getting involved with Roarke. Among many other things, she's shown to be ignorant of Iron Man, Batman, James Bond, Star Trek and other fandoms mentioned throughout the books (Calculated In Death has a bunch of these), and rarely recognizes the contemporary celebrities of the setting. She also has no ear for music, a fact Lampshaded and lamented on by Feeney who often reacts with disgust at her lack of knowledge in it. She is well-informed on famous murder cases (Like Jack the Ripper) and will study up on a particular piece of pop culture if it's relevant to a case she's working.
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In Death / int_7a555627	type	Honest Corporate Executive
In Death / int_7a555627	comment	Honest Corporate Executive: Roarke is one of the wealthiest individuals in the world, with corporate interests in all kinds of sectors. He started out as a thief and a black marketeer, but by the time the series starts he's gone fully legitimate (when his Eve asks, he remarks with tongue in cheek that he almost wishes he did still have some dirty business going so that he could give it all up for her sake). He treats his employees well and is quick to put a stop to any unethical shenanigans he discovers going on at the lower levels of his companies; in later books, he founds a shelter for victims of domestic abuse and makes sure that it stays well-funded and staffed by capable, caring people.
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In Death / int_7ba4adea	type	Black Market Produce
In Death / int_7ba4adea	comment	Black Market Produce: Real meat and coffee are expensive luxuries that only the rich can afford. In the first novel of the series billionaire Roarke woos Dallas by giving her a present of genuine coffee from the Brazilian plantation he maintains at great expense for his own personal supply. It's so immeasurably superior to the vile sludge that usually passes for coffee (see Bad to the Last Drop) that Dallas's coffee becomes the envy of the entire Homicide division, and later in the series Police Central. Her bosses will find excuses to drop in for a cup on occasion.
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In Death / int_7ec94d53	type	Woobie, Destroyer of Worlds
In Death / int_7ec94d53	comment	Woobie, Destroyer of Worlds: Holiday In Death and Portrait In Death have killers who could be considered this. Those killers suffered losses that was the end of the world for them. They turned to murder because for them, it's the only way to unleash the pain. Those killers are also implied to have been born with untreated mental disorders. Perhaps they are unsympathetic, but it can be agreed that they are pathetic.
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In Death / int_8042e814	type	Actually Pretty Funny
In Death / int_8042e814	comment	Obsession In Death takes this a step further by introducing droid police officers. Called "D-Officers," they appear to be utilized as first-response officers in places where it would be difficult or dangerous for human officers to arrive in a timely fashion. Along with being made to look distinctively like human beings, they act mostly like humans as well, going by given names and even managing to look somewhat amused when Eve makes a lewd and unfriendly bystander talk by utilizing a very unfriendly grip on him.
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In Death / int_82384b1	type	Never Hurt an Innocent
In Death / int_82384b1	comment	Harm a child? Not on Eve's watch! See Abusive Parents above. She also hates parents who manipulate their children, as shown in Born and Kindred.
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In Death / int_831164fe	type	Signature Style
In Death / int_831164fe	comment	Roberts/Robb likes this trope. A lot. Especially paired with whirlwind romances. To the point that it counts as a subversion with Peabody and McNab when their relationship takes a while to build up and isn't smooth sailing in the least.
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In Death / int_863fa679	type	What Happened to the Mouse?
In Death / int_863fa679	comment	What Happened to the Mouse?: When Crack returns from his Walking the Earth stint, Eve asks him to help her with some undercover work. His attempts and the results of such have yet to be mentioned.
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In Death / int_8658cd14	type	Agent Scully
In Death / int_8658cd14	comment	Agent Scully: Eve flatly does not or refuses to believe in ghosts and the supernatural, even when it's staring her straight in the face. This vexes everyone around her.
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In Death / int_874176be	type	Psychic Powers
In Death / int_874176be	comment	Psychic Powers: Some have been proven scientifically by the time of the series, and possessors thereof are registered with the state. Peabody's brother Zeke has them, and they form a part of Visions in Death's plot.
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In Death / int_88fa35e0	type	Walking Techbane
In Death / int_88fa35e0	comment	Walking Techbane: Machines tend to misbehave around Eve, maybe because she beats them half to death when they aren't cooperating.
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In Death / int_89434320	type	Protagonist-Centered Morality
In Death / int_89434320	comment	Protagonist-Centered Morality: Some of the later books seem to have begun wandering into this area. The idea that justice may be more important than the law isn't too bad itself... but Eve always seems to be the judge of what's justice. Past book thirty or so, she goes from bending the law when it's absolutely necessary to breaking it at will. If she weren't generally presented as unfailingly right, it would almost look like a case of Jumping Off the Slippery Slope. Oh...let's be honest. This trope has been present since the very first book of this series. For Eve, Roarke is this trope. Vengeance in Death had Eve finding out about some very serious crimes, however justified, committed by her husband. She had to choose between the law or her husband. Take a wild guess on which one she picked. Then there was Creation in Death, which had Eve finding out from the killer that he prepared documents a long time ago that will legally allow him to commit suicide. She has Roarke erase the documents, and states quite clearly to him that she is crossing the line. Of course, the book goes out of its way to show that the killer was an evil, cowardly man who would rather kill himself painlessly than face the consequences of both his actions and his failing health, so little sympathy for him is found in this case. If it is any consolation, Eve discusses her actions with Roarke in Salvation in Death, and concludes that this is not something she wants to make a regular habit of doing. Even outside of extreme measures, Eve's normal methods of operating are those generally considered to be some of the worst aspects of law enforcement officers who abuse their authority. She threatens people to obtain information rather than pursue a more ethical and legal option, frequently coerces people into cooperating by threatening to arrest them on trumped-up or minor charges (frequently referred to as being arrested for "contempt of cop" by watchdog organizations), and has more than once physically assaulted someone secure in the knowledge that she can get away with it because of her position. While she often makes a show of being strictly by-the-book to avoid having a conviction thrown out (or herself being disciplined), her repeated violation of both the letter and the spirit of various laws shows that it's purely for the sake of getting her own way, not because she actually believes in it as she consistently claims to. Meaning that while Eve may not be a corrupt cop, that she's a bad one is hard to argue.
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In Death / int_89cf0914	type	Parental Sexuality Squick
In Death / int_89cf0914	comment	Parental Sexuality Squick: Played subtly with Feeney. As Eve's Parental Substitute, sex is about the only topic that seriously squicks them out.
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In Death / int_8a295a46	type	Cool Car
In Death / int_8a295a46	comment	Cool Car: In Promises in Death, Roarke gives Dallas an incredibly cool car custom-designed for her, packed to the gills with awesome features... and painted like a junker, so it won't draw attention on the street or resentment from fellow cops. Eve is grateful, since she'd had to use NYPSD-issued clunkers until "Promises".
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In Death / int_8ae880f7	type	Deconstruction
In Death / int_8ae880f7	comment	Deconstruction: The setting reads as a deconstruction of the idea of a social utopia. "Traditional" firearms are banned, the food industry is more tightly regulated to the point that animal cruelty is virtually unheard of, welfare is better than ever, and prostitution and certain recreational drugs are legalized and regulated. On the other hand, none of this comes without cost: the regulation of the food industry and increased environmental protections mean that meats and animal products are all but entirely replaced by soy and vegetable substitutes for most people; real meat, real coffee, and real tobacco are rare and expensive luxuries, personal freedoms are more restricted and monitored, and projectile-based firearms have been antiquated and rendered obsolete anyways thanks to the invention of energy-based blasters, which can be and are just as lethal as any slugthrower when dialed up to the right settings. And even with all of this, people are still murdered by psychopaths, terrorists still blow up monuments, and there is still a dark, nasty underbelly to society where the forgotten and out-of-luck citizens waste away from the world. Basically, despite all the "progressive" changes to the world, its still the same world that it is now and nowhere near the utopia that it is supposed to be.
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In Death / int_8b568cb7	type	Posthumous Character
In Death / int_8b568cb7	comment	Posthumous Character: Eve's father Richard Troy was dead long before the series began, but he is nevertheless a major figure in the series. He appears in Eve's nightmares and flashbacks from the first book onward; as Eve gradually remembers more about her childhood, Roarke eventually manages to discover his name and other details about him, culminating in the discovery (in Divided in Death) that Homeland Security was using Troy as an informant and knew what he was doing to Eve but did not intervene, and also that Troy did business with Patrick Roarke and was probably planning to sell Eve to him as a child prostitute. To a lesser extent, Roarke's father Patrick carries a lingering influence despite also having been dead for more than twenty years at the beginning of the series,
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In Death / int_8cb4ea46	type	By-the-Book Cop
In Death / int_8cb4ea46	comment	Eve tries to be a By-the-Book Cop so as to not give her suspects any legal loopholes to exploit and will resort to the less legal means (often by drawing on Roarke's talents for that sort of thing) only when she has no other option. Eve respects if not outright worships the Law while recognizing that her opponents work outside it.
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In Death / int_8cb66c2f	type	Who Murdered the Asshole
In Death / int_8cb66c2f	comment	Who Murdered the Asshole: Several cases have a wealth of suspects thanks to the victim being a terrible, or at least thoroughly unlikable, person (see Asshole Victim). One textbook example is Richard Draco in Witness in Death, who proves to have been such scum while he was alive that Eve for the first time in the series admits that she can't feel any sympathy for him nor condemn his murderer, considering that she killed him for starting an exploitative sexual relationship with their unwitting daughter. Agatha Christie references abound. Another standout is Larinda Mars in Secrets in Death, a celebrity gossip reporter with no personal or professional ethics to speak of. She's quickly revealed to have been a blackmailer who excelled at digging up traumatic events from the past to hold over her victims - or outright manufacturing scandals to hold over them. Between the long list of her victims and the even longer list of their family and loved ones, Eve has a multitude of motivated suspects to try to sort through.
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In Death / int_8e7835b3	type	Wunza Plot
In Death / int_8e7835b3	comment	Wunza Plot: A multi-millionare ex-criminal and a cop team up together to solve crimes.
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In Death / int_8ed5c6e4	type	Asshole Victim
In Death / int_8ed5c6e4	comment	Also, after Asshole Victim extraordinaire Richard Draco is murdered in Witness in Death, someone gets the bright idea to try and blackmail the murderer. Unsurprisingly, the would-be blackmailer winds up dead.
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In Death / int_90328f91	type	Unscrupulous Hero
In Death / int_90328f91	comment	Unscrupulous Hero: Roarke.
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In Death / int_906365a2	type	Demonic Possession
In Death / int_906365a2	comment	Demonic Possession: In Possession in Death Eve gets possessed by a dead gypsy who wants Eve to find her lost granddaughter.
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In Death / int_938e9bc0	type	Absent-Minded Professor
In Death / int_938e9bc0	comment	Absent-Minded Professor: Dennis Mira, the sweet-natured and slightly spacy husband of Eve's longtime colleague Dr. Mira, teaches at Columbia University. He's forgetful about details - "vague" and "dreamy" are recurring descriptors - but his wife notes that he is "skilled at fining down a point to its most elemental level," and she often discusses aspects of cases with him.
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In Death / int_94332264	type	Busman's Holiday
In Death / int_94332264	comment	Busman's Holiday: Eve and Roarke spend the first chapter of Indulgence in Death on vacation in Ireland, visiting Roarke's maternal relatives. Naturally, a body turns up. Eve resists the trope as best she can, aware that she has no actual authority to investigate, but it's a small town that hasn't had a murder of any kind in over a decade and the investigating officer is rather out of his depth. Eve ends up doing as much of the initial crime scene work as she can legally get away with and not step on toes, and provides the local cop with point by point advice on how to proceed from there.
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In Death / int_957e5fc2	type	Villainous Breakdown
In Death / int_957e5fc2	comment	Villainous Breakdown: Some murderers are subjected to this when Even foils them.
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In Death / int_973d220f	type	Never My Fault
In Death / int_973d220f	comment	Never My Fault: Jerald "Jerry" Reinhold from Thankless in Death never takes responsibility for ANYTHING.
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In Death / int_97ee273	type	Momma's Boy
In Death / int_97ee273	comment	Momma's Boy: The reveal of Roarke's real mother as a good person turns him into this, unfortunately, she's dead.
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In Death / int_98ce21fe	type	Long-Running Book Series
In Death / int_98ce21fe	comment	Long-Running Book Series
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In Death / int_98d3f973	type	Mama's Baby, Papa's Maybe
In Death / int_98d3f973	comment	Mama's Baby, Papa's Maybe: Inverted. Meg Roarke played along with Patrick in pretending to be the mother of his son either by threat of physical violence or his golden gab, since Patrick had killed Roarke's actual mother Siobhan Brody.
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In Death / int_98f5de00	type	Let Me Get This Straight...
In Death / int_98f5de00	comment	Let Me Get This Straight...: Eve has this reaction in Glory in Death while questioning a suspect.
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In Death / int_9962fa8	type	Not with Them for the Money
In Death / int_9962fa8	comment	Not with Them for the Money: Eve's relationship with Roarke occurs in spite of his obscene wealth rather than because of it. She is horrified when he presents her with an enormous diamond as a souvenir from a trip to Australia, and after their marriage she not only refuses to think of his assets as hers, she gets mad at him when she realizes he's been putting funds into an account in her name and demands that he take it back. (Her standard responses are that she actually married him for the coffee or sex.)
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In Death / int_9ae85487	type	Dr. Jerk
In Death / int_9ae85487	comment	Dr. Jerk: Dr. Anthony Strazza, the Asshole Victim in Echoes in Death, was an extremely skilled surgeon and roundly disliked by everyone who knew him. His own lawyer candidly admits to Eve that he can only think of ten days in which he liked the man, and that was when Dr. Strazza was fixing him up after a serious accident. All of this is before it comes to light that Strazza was abusing his wife.
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In Death / int_9b54d536	type	Evil Counterpart
In Death / int_9b54d536	comment	Evil Counterpart: Renee Oberman in Treachery in Death is basically the opposite of Eve in every way but gender. Also Bix to Peabody. He's an attack dog subordinate with no independent thought, she's a true partner who complements Eve as part of a team.
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In Death / int_9b60b728	type	Addled Addict
In Death / int_9b60b728	comment	Addled Addict: People addicted to the drug Funk, most often referred to as "funky junkies," are uniformly depicted this way. The drug leaves them in a perpetually vague, befuddled state of mind with limited capacity for retaining detailed information. Combined with the tendency of the drug to also wreak havoc on one's eyesight, this makes them supremely frustrating witnesses.
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In Death / int_9b820eed	type	Breeding Cult
In Death / int_9b820eed	comment	Faithless in Death: Murder of artist â†’ Breeding Cult involved in Human Trafficking and related crimes.
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In Death / int_9bf49893	type	I Can't Believe a Guy Like You Would Notice Me
In Death / int_9bf49893	comment	I Can't Believe a Guy Like You Would Notice Me: Eve sometimes wonders why a billionaire would love someone like her.
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In Death / int_9c45b5a2	type	What Measure Is a Non-Human?
In Death / int_9c45b5a2	comment	What Measure Is a Non-Human?: Droids are a bit of a muddy area, here. While no one outright says they're sentient, and it's mostly implied that they're just well-programmed to emulate some emotional responses, they do display traits like fear and self-preservation... usually when Eve threatens to have them taken apart or destroyed for not being as cooperative as she'd like. Obsession In Death takes this a step further by introducing droid police officers. Called "D-Officers," they appear to be utilized as first-response officers in places where it would be difficult or dangerous for human officers to arrive in a timely fashion. Along with being made to look distinctively like human beings, they act mostly like humans as well, going by given names and even managing to look somewhat amused when Eve makes a lewd and unfriendly bystander talk by utilizing a very unfriendly grip on him.
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In Death / int_9c5ce9ed	type	Blunt Metaphors Trauma
In Death / int_9c5ce9ed	comment	Blunt Metaphors Trauma: Eve doesn't quite get a lot of common idioms. It seems to be a combination of a highly analytical mind and a very isolated upbringing; she tends to either get idioms wrong or modifies them into something which makes more sense to her mind, and frequently over-thinks figurative turns of phrase trying to figure out why a specific wording has come to connote a particular meaning.
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In Death / int_9ce6492a	type	Taking the Bullet
In Death / int_9ce6492a	comment	Taking the Nerve Disruptor: Eve does this for Summerset, her continuing low-level antagonist. Roarke gets saved from a stab wound in the same manner by Mick Connelly, leading to one of the tearjerkers in the series.
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In Death / int_9dd2cbc2	type	CloudCuckooLander
In Death / int_9dd2cbc2	comment	Cloud Cuckoo Lander: Dennis Mira, Dr. Mira's husband. Incredibly sweet and empathetic but rather spacey. Eve finds him oddly charming.
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In Death / int_9f80e1da	type	Sarcasm Mode
In Death / int_9f80e1da	comment	Sarcasm Mode: Eve on the first book when her friend Mavis learns that she knows Roarke and asks for details. "Weâ€™ve had a secret, passionate affair for the last three years, during which time I bore him a son whoâ€™s being raised on the far side of the moon by Buddhist monks."
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In Death / int_a0db7803	type	It's Personal
In Death / int_a0db7803	comment	It's Personal: Quite a few of Eve's cases either start out or end up turning personal when one or more of her loved ones, or someone connected to them, ends up as either a suspect or a witness - Immortal, Vengeance, and Loyalty in Death feature attempts to frame someone close to Eve for one or more murders. (Despite the fact that personal involvement with a key figure in the case should cause Eve to be removed from the investigation due to conflict of interest, somehow this never happens.) In several books, the killer makes it personal by targeting Eve herself, Roarke, or both of them. Vengeance, Betrayal, and Imitation in Death provide some examples; similarly, in Midnight in Death and New York to Dallas, the killer is someone Eve previously caught who is now loose again. In Conspiracy in Death, Eve is framed for murder and for once actually is (temporarily) taken off the case. The entire police department takes it personally any time one of their own is killed, hurt, or threatened, such as in Ceremony, Judgement, Promises, and Apprentice in Death. In Purity in Death the villains inspire a special kind of rage in Eve by managing to, in quick succession, endanger and hurt McNabb, Feeney, Peabody, and Trueheart, who is also forced to make his first kill. Likewise, the corrupt cops in Treachery in Death would already have personally offended Eve thanks to her near-reverential respect for the job and how much she defines herself by her work, but on top of that they scare Peabody half to death when she accidentally witnesses a conversation about their crimes. By the end of the book, Eve is basically trying to dig the deepest possible hole to toss their ringleader into.
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In Death / int_a0eeac39	type	Odd Name Out
In Death / int_a0eeac39	comment	Odd Name Out: Remember When breaks the "_____ in Death" title pattern, probably because only half of the book involves Eve. New York to Dallas is fully an Eve Dallas novel. In this case the break in the pattern may be due to the fact that not only does most of the story take place in Dallas, Texas instead of New York City, the case ties significantly into Eve's past.
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In Death / int_a3eea2ea	type	Cop Killer
In Death / int_a3eea2ea	comment	Cop Killer: This has happened several times, and when it does, you can bet that this a considered a Moral Event Horizon for the cops at least.
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In Death / int_a4be7043	type	Da Chief
In Death / int_a4be7043	comment	Da Chief: Chief Tibble. Commander Whitney, as her direct superior, also serves as Da Chief to Eve in many respects; both of them have good working relationships with her.
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In Death / int_a6123b72	type	Enfant Terrible
In Death / int_a6123b72	comment	Enfant Terrible: Rayleen Straffo in Innocent In Death, who started her murderous career at seven. By comparison, Willow Mackie in Apprentice in Death got a slightly later start, killing twenty-five people with a long-range tactical laser at the age of fifteen. She eventually reveals that the killing spree was her idea, masterminded over the course of a year, with the intent of continuing into a hundred-victim mass shooting starting at her school. Even before that, she'd threatened her stepfather, seven-year-old half-brother, and several other people on numerous occasions, not to mention killing her half-brother's puppy by breaking its neck and throwing it out a third-story window to land at the boy's feet as he came home.
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In Death / int_a681bfc6	type	Amicable Exes
In Death / int_a681bfc6	comment	Amicable Exes: At the beginning of "Reunion in Death", it's said that Walter C. Pettibone "maintained a reasonable friendly relationship with his ex".
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In Death / int_a8adc5a0	type	Like a Son to Me
In Death / int_a8adc5a0	comment	Like a Daughter to Me: In Conspiracy in Death Mira compares her feelings to Eve to the ones she has for her children.
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In Death / int_a9c7258a	type	Absent Aliens
In Death / int_a9c7258a	comment	Absent Aliens: There is space travel in Robb's 21st century, but it's mostly background, and there's no mention of non-human life. (Aside from the villains Eve chases)
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In Death / int_aa30e350	type	Sole Survivor
In Death / int_aa30e350	comment	Sole Survivor: Poor little Nixie Swisher witnesses the slaughter of her whole family at the tender age of nine. (Survivor in Death)
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In Death / int_aabe2fb	type	Deliberate Values Dissonance
In Death / int_aabe2fb	comment	Deliberate Values Dissonance: Eve values the law as preventing total chaos. Roarke goes around it if the law is sufficiently inconvenient. It's a pretty low bar. Eve has come to see his point, reluctantly. Roarke has come to see that Eve has a point, too.
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In Death / int_abe1e24e	type	Good Cannot Comprehend Evil
In Death / int_abe1e24e	comment	Good Cannot Comprehend Evil: Dr. Mira in Midnight in Death is unable to understand David Palmer's villainy. Eve Dallas is similarly unable to understand her own mother in New York to Dallas.
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In Death / int_ac4ac8e5	type	Idiosyncratic Episode Naming
In Death / int_ac4ac8e5	comment	Idiosyncratic Episode Naming: All the titles follow the style <Word> in Death, with two exceptions: Remember When (a two-part novel set half in the present day and half in Eve and company's near-future), and New York To Dallas.
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In Death / int_adf2910	type	Human Traffickers
In Death / int_adf2910	comment	Human Traffickers: Origin in Death has an illegal cloning program which has for decades cloned people for willing buyers. These clones are used for everything from prostitutes, soldiers, spies or even disposable cannon fodder. Born In Death has a group who take in mothers and sell their babies to rich customers. Faithless in Death features the Breeding Cult known as the Natural Order, run by Reverend Stanton Wilkey. The Natural Order kidnaps women and tortures them into submissive brides to be sold off to politicians and other high ranking officials. Desperation in Death features the "The Pleasure Academy", which is run by Jonah K. Devereaux. The Pleasure Academy kidnaps young girls and women and indoctrinates them into sex slaves for the wealthy elite.
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In Death / int_ae3d6438	type	Deadpan Snarker
In Death / int_ae3d6438	comment	Deadpan Snarker: Eve is very very cynical, and doesn't attempt to hide it.
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In Death / int_aec63727	type	Pragmatic Hero
In Death / int_aec63727	comment	Pragmatic Hero: Eve Dallas
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In Death / int_af616e40	type	Accidental Misnaming
In Death / int_af616e40	comment	Accidental Misnaming: That's Lieutenant Eve Dallas to you, not "Mrs. Roarke".
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In Death / int_b09c818	type	"Blackmail" Is Such an Ugly Word
In Death / int_b09c818	comment	"Blackmail" Is Such an Ugly Word: Roarke considers "banged" "a very unattractive term". He'd rather say he and Pepper Franklin "had a brief and mature relationship, which included the occasional banging".
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In Death / int_b0cd3349	type	Fridge Brilliance
In Death / int_b0cd3349	comment	The CIA is not allowed to operate domestically, so that setup probably got overhauled in the Urban Wars.
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In Death / int_b11ac9f5	type	Abusive Parents
In Death / int_b11ac9f5	comment	Then again when describing a nightmare where her mom tries to kill Bella.
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In Death / int_b1dde8fd	type	Loophole Abuse
In Death / int_b1dde8fd	comment	Loophole Abuse: As Roarke points out in Naked in Death, Eve's "been slipping through loopholes to avoid Testing".
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In Death / int_b431d1a6	type	Adjective Animal Alehouse
In Death / int_b431d1a6	comment	Adjective Animal Alehouse: The Blue Squirrel, where the food and drinks are highly suspect and the live music acts tend to the scantily-clad. Mavis is employed there as a performer in the first three books, and Eve continues to use the location as a meeting place on occasion even after Mavis stops working there (though she prefers the Down and Dirty, the even seedier dive where Crack works as a bouncer, for covert meetings).
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In Death / int_b44e86c4	type	You Do NOT Want to Know
In Death / int_b44e86c4	comment	You Do NOT Want To Know: In Vengeance in Death, Eve asks what's in the "meat stuff" she's eating (actually blood pudding). Roarke says, "Youâ€™ll thank me for not telling you. Just enjoy it."
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In Death / int_b5060b63	type	The Lad-ette
In Death / int_b5060b63	comment	The Lad-ette: Guess.
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In Death / int_b58b4e3c	type	Too Dumb to Live
In Death / int_b58b4e3c	comment	Too Dumb to Live: You sometimes wonder why some victims still know how to breathe. A shining example would be the one in Eternity in Death.
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In Death / int_b66a24a7	type	Trauma-Induced Amnesia
In Death / int_b66a24a7	comment	Trauma-Induced Amnesia: Eve, who had forgotten most of her Dark and Troubled Past at the start of the series.
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In Death / int_b6b6355f	type	Politeness Judo
In Death / int_b6b6355f	comment	Politeness Judo: Roarke is an nth degree black belt in it.
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In Death / int_b7042372	type	Cycle of Revenge
In Death / int_b7042372	comment	Prior to the series, Roarke murdered six men in revenge for their rape and murder of Summerset's daughter Marlena. The deaths in Vengeance in Death, the book in which this is revealed, turn out to be the Cycle of Revenge coming around again at the hands of the wife and son of one of the original six victims.
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In Death / int_b7e0c5ff	type	Love Triangle
In Death / int_b7e0c5ff	comment	Love Triangle: Webster is in love with Eve who is married to Roarke. Roarke is aware of Webster's infatuations, resulting in the two men fighting each other briefly. Afterwards, they come to an understanding: Webster is in love with Eve, and Roarke doesn't mind as long as Webster doesn't try anything on her, and remembers she is his wife. In Treachery in Death, Webster recently started a relationship with Darcia Angelo and it seems pretty serious. So he's moving on and things are finally resolving.
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In Death / int_b9fd7929	type	Morality Chain
In Death / int_b9fd7929	comment	Morality Chain: Eve to Roarke, stopping him killing quite a few people and the reason he gave up the criminal side of his enterprises. God only knows what would happen if she ever died. Think Roaring Rampage of Revenge meets Unstoppable Rage. May or may not include elements of Best Served Cold
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In Death / int_bb18a227	type	It's All About Me
In Death / int_bb18a227	comment	It's All About Me: Common in cases where the killer in question isn't a Sympathetic Murderer or lacks a Freudian Excuse. In particular, Celebrity in Death and Thankless in Death.
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In Death / int_bc00493f	type	Precision F-Strike
In Death / int_bc00493f	comment	Precision C Strike: The only time Eve uses the word in the entire series kicks off a particularly vicious stream of invective. Then again when describing a nightmare where her mom tries to kill Bella.
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In Death / int_bc74ef27	type	Berserk Button
In Death / int_bc74ef27	comment	Berserk Button: For Eve: Harm a child? Not on Eve's watch! See Abusive Parents above. She also hates parents who manipulate their children, as shown in Born and Kindred. Police corruption, as shown in Treachery, among others. No matter how injured she is, even when a case is over Eve will still fight to avoid going to a hospital. Do not insult the NYPSD to Eve's face. For Roarke: DO NOT HARM, INSULT, OR THREATEN EVE IN FRONT OF ROARKE. Made even scarier by the fact that many don't even know they've mashed said button until it's too late. See Tranquil Fury below. For others: Harm Eve and after the NYPSD makes your life a living hell, Roarke will show you new types of pain. The same applies for harming Roarke where Eve is concerned. It goes either and both ways, with Eve's men taking it personally when someone threatens their Lieutenant. We see this in Treachery in Death after someone has just attacked Eve from the back, in front of other detectives.
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In Death / int_bd0d6395	type	No Social Skills
In Death / int_bd0d6395	comment	No Social Skills: Eve.
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In Death / int_bd79d896	type	Minor Crime Reveals Major Plot
In Death / int_bd79d896	comment	Minor Crime Reveals Major Plot: Origin in Death: Murder of a "saintly" doctor â†’ massive decades-old illegal human-cloning and people-made-to-order operation. Born in Death: Murder of two young accountants â†’ tax fraud and another financial crimes â†’ baby-selling ring. Faithless in Death: Murder of artist â†’ Breeding Cult involved in Human Trafficking and related crimes.
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In Death / int_bddb820f	type	Must Have Caffeine
In Death / int_bddb820f	comment	Must Have Caffeine: Eve. It's no coincidence that Roarke's first successful courting gift to her is a bag of genuine, high-quality coffee.
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In Death / int_beb932ca	type	Big Applesauce
In Death / int_beb932ca	comment	Big Applesauce: Both the text and some of the characters treat New York City with a reverence bordering on religion. In one book Roarke feels the need to point out to Eve that New York isn't the center of the universe, to which Eve replies that it should be. The fact that New York state exists beyond New York City is generally ignored.
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In Death / int_bec0417c	type	Happily Married
In Death / int_bec0417c	comment	Happily Married: Eve and Roarke, after a whirlwind courtship. Also, the Miras, the Feeneys, Mavis and Leonardo, and the Whitneys. Despite the books' subject matter, it's actually rather common among the first- and second-tier characters. More than, say, any of the Law & Order series. Roberts/Robb likes this trope. A lot. Especially paired with whirlwind romances. To the point that it counts as a subversion with Peabody and McNab when their relationship takes a while to build up and isn't smooth sailing in the least. There is Morris and Coltraine, who were developing a relationship across several books ... until Coltraine was murdered in Promises in Death.
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In Death / int_c007c53	type	Cool and Unusual Punishment
In Death / int_c007c53	comment	Cool and Unusual Punishment: In Innocent in Death, Roarke finally confronts Magdelana about her machinations... and informs her that she's going to be completely banned from every single property, business, and transportation system that he owns. Roarke owns a lot.
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In Death / int_c099ca1a	type	Real Women Don't Wear Dresses
In Death / int_c099ca1a	comment	Real Women Don't Wear Dresses: In-Universe. Dallas, a firm tomboy with little use for or interest in fashion or makeup, is torn between disdain and admiration of more traditionally feminine women. She perpetually disapproves uncomfortably of Peabody's ventures into personalizing her style with "girlie" touches like fashionable clothes and bright colors, which Eve finds inappropriate for a cop, and she's alternately impressed and baffled by Dr. Mira's classical Proper Lady style. The series itself doesn't really take Dallas' side, though. Thankfully, Roarke is savvy enough of both fashion and Eve's tastes that he can choose something for Eve that both compliments her femininity while not overdoing it, and makes sure the outfit doesn't downplay her badassery in the slightest.
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In Death / int_c335b9ec	type	Irony
In Death / int_c335b9ec	comment	Irony: Roarke's image of Christ. "The irony of owning an image carved from precious metals of a man who had preached humility never touched him."note Line from Vengeance in Death.
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In Death / int_c5249b29	type	Nice Guy
In Death / int_c5249b29	comment	The initial victim in Brotherhood in Death is portrayed right off the bat as a smug, wholly self-centered politician who cares more about money than about keeping a promise made to his late grandfather and is trying to pressure his Nice Guy cousin into selling their grandparents' house against the grandfather's final wishes. The investigation eventually reveals even worse: all three of the murder victims, along with three other men, had formed a "Brotherhood" with a yearly tradition of abducting, drugging, and gang-raping young women. They'd been doing this once a year for forty-nine years, even taking video recordings, and one of the men kept a lock of each woman's hair as souvenirs. It's hard not to side with the killer once all this comes to light, and Eve herself mostly feels disgusted that only two of the six are still alive to face prosecution for their crimes (besides the murder victims, a fourth had committed suicide), while three of their victims will have to go to jail for killing them.
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In Death / int_c75df49a	type	Shout-Out
In Death / int_c75df49a	comment	Shout-Out: In Glory in Death, Eve dubs a suspect's lawyers "Moe, Larry and Curly."
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In Death / int_c76f81b8	type	Non-Idle Rich
In Death / int_c76f81b8	comment	Non-Idle Rich: Louise Dimatto, a high society trust fund baby who is dedicated to her career as a doctor and runs a low-income clinic for patients who can't afford much by way of medical care. Roarke is constantly working on various projects and business deals, despite being more than wealthy enough to be as idle as he'd like to be; over the course of the series he also founds a shelter for survivors of domestic abuse and invests in Louise's clinic. Eve also counts after marrying Roarke, though she doesn't really think of his assets as being in any way related to her.
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In Death / int_cb70651c	type	Maybe Magic, Maybe Mundane
In Death / int_cb70651c	comment	Maybe Magic, Maybe Mundane: It's made clear in Ceremony In Death that the Satanist cult's "magic" is a combination of drugs and tech, but whether Wiccan priestess Isis has real magical abilities is left more ambiguous. Eve, the Agent Scully, steadfastly refuses to consider the possibility, while Roarke and Peabody are more willing to believe. In later books the more supernatural/fantastical elements tend to be relegated to the short stories and novelas between the main novels. Someone who hasn't bothered to track those down could be forgiven for thinking that the maybe magic stuff was all pretty much Early-Installment Weirdness.
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In Death / int_cc39902e	type	Face of an Angel, Mind of a Demon
In Death / int_cc39902e	comment	Face of an Angel, Mind of a Demon: Several perps across the series hide their twisted natures behind charming, attractive and innocent-looking exteriors. The most textbook example is Rayleen Straffo in Innocent in Death: a pretty ten-year-old girl with curly blonde hair and violet eyes, "dewy" skin, a slightly tipped-up nose and a "rosy" mouth. She's already killed three people at the time the narration makes this description of her, starting with her own baby brother when he was two years old and she was seven.
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In Death / int_cd70c3dc	type	CorruptCop
In Death / int_cd70c3dc	comment	Police corruption, as shown in Treachery, among others.
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In Death / int_ceec4df5	type	Roaring Rampage of Revenge
In Death / int_ceec4df5	comment	Both Eve and Roarke turn out to have murder in their backstories. As a child, Eve stabbed her father to death in self-defense when he raped and beat her. Roarke, meanwhile, turns out in Vengeance in Death to have gone on a Roaring Rampage of Revenge and killed several men involved in the rape, torture, and death of Summerset's daughter Marlena.
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In Death / int_d1cedb73	type	Slap-Slap-Kiss
In Death / int_d1cedb73	comment	Slap-Slap-Kiss: Peabody and McNab. The essence of Eve and Roarke's whole relationship even after they get married.
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In Death / int_d29e9f65	type	Nature Versus Nurture
In Death / int_d29e9f65	comment	Nature Versus Nurture: Eve and Roarke both struggle on and off with the question of how much of their monstrous parents and generally horrible childhoods they carry with them, as they have both genes and environment working against them. The series overall seems to take the stance that while genetics and upbringing can both shape a person, the real answer is often "neither" - for every perp who has a Villainous Lineage or was warped by the circumstances and events of their lives, there's one (examples include Innocent in Death and Thankless in Death) who had perfectly normal, caring parents who did their best to raise their child right, with no history of trauma, abuse, or hereditary mental instability. Some people, it seems, are simply born monsters... but by the same token, it's possible for a person to rise above horrific parents and childhood and make something better out of themselves (Eve and Roarke themselves).
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In Death / int_d2b59903	type	Cool Old Lady
In Death / int_d2b59903	comment	Cool Old Lady: There are a few examples, but Edie Farnsworth in Thankless in Death takes the crown. A retired high school computer science teacher with no remarkable physical ability to speak of, she manages to keep her head together while being held prisoner by volatile impulse-driven murderer. She not only manages to sneak a hidden code into the false identity he forces her to code for him, one that will flag the ID with a fraud alert directed straight to Eve the moment it's used, she even manages to break his foot as a final middle finger. She doesn't make it, unfortunately, but she dies with a satisfied smile in her heart, and her incredible toughness and savvy thinking under pressure help Eve to catch the killer in time to save his next victim.
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In Death / int_d33d9ca1	type	Despair Gambit
In Death / int_d33d9ca1	comment	Despair Gambit: Used in Conspiracy in Death on Eve to get her off a case. It almost works. Almost.
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In Death / int_d39e327f	type	What the Hell, Hero?
In Death / int_d39e327f	comment	What the Hell, Hero?: "Isn't it funny how no one likes a dirty cop, but nobody wants to hang out with the guys that catch them?" Eve promptly ignores this utterly apt and pointed observation from her former friend and continues to refer to Internal Affairs as the "rat squad".
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In Death / int_d49f90ea	type	Western Terrorists
In Death / int_d49f90ea	comment	Western Terrorists: Doomsday (a cyber-terrorist group) and Cassandra, the latter in turn being an offshoot of the pre-series Western Terrorists Apollo.
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In Death / int_d4b7ec2a	type	Expert Consultant
In Death / int_d4b7ec2a	comment	Expert Consultant: Whenever Roarke decides to help out on one of Eve's cases she always refers to him as a "civilian consultant". This is partially because as a billionaire businessman he does have useful expert knowledge, and partially because it is the most convenient thing to put on her reports.
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In Death / int_d54b9eb3	type	Inter-Service Rivalry
In Death / int_d54b9eb3	comment	Interservice Rivalry: Oh, man, is this trope played straight to a T or what? The New York Police Department and the Internal Affairs Bureau tend to butt heads a lot in this series. The New York Police Department and the Federal Bureau of Investigation have some major hostilities between them. The FBI is mostly portrayed as stuck-up, arrogant, and above the dirty and grimy streets. The New York Police Department and the Homeland Security Organization develop some major hostilities between them. Oddly, the HSO is portrayed like the Central Intelligence Agency - dark, shadowy, powerful, has no conscience, and will break laws and regulations to the point of crossing one too many lines. The CIA is nowhere to be found in this series - whatever happened to it? The CIA is not allowed to operate domestically, so that setup probably got overhauled in the Urban Wars. One book has the Transit Police trying to grab glory in the attempt to capture a fleeing suspect. The supervisor tries to wrest command of the team from Eve, and then a trigger-happy transit cop shoots Trueheart and causes him (and the suspect) to be badly injured. The transit cops (rightly) have some strips of hide taken off by their commander.
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In Death / int_d9d8fd35	type	Battle Butler
In Death / int_d9d8fd35	comment	Battle Butler: Summerset is normally quite prim, but he lived through the Urban Wars and has been shown fully capable of kicking ass when he has to.
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In Death / int_dcbe8a6e	type	Chekhov's Gunman
In Death / int_dcbe8a6e	comment	The candy thief, who is probably just waiting to become a Chekhov's Gunman.
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In Death / int_dcd423d2	type	Affectionate Nickname
In Death / int_dcd423d2	comment	Affectionate Nickname: Charles Monroe calls Eve "Lieutenant Sugar," and keeps it up long after any pretense of flirtation has passed. Roarke prefers "darling Eve," and at one point programs the house computer to call her that as well, to Eve's exasperation. McNabb has "She-Body" for Peabody, and Mavis doles out excessively cute nicknames like candy. Crack has "skinny white girl" for Eve, while she calls him "Big (or Large) Black Man"
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In Death / int_dd9fba61	type	A Rare Sentence
In Death / int_dd9fba61	comment	A Rare Sentence: From Brotherhood in Death:
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In Death / int_e2023325	type	StrawmanPolitical
In Death / int_e2023325	comment	Strawman Political: In the first book at the very least, the parties have discarded their former names and are now just the Conservatives, Moderates, and so on. The Conservatives are evil and corrupt to a man, depicted as snarling tyrants obsessed with destroying contraception because they hate women being able to control their reproductive faculties. And of course, the Conservative Senator who wants to make prostitution illegal and gun ownership legal is a slobbering, incestuous child-raper.
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In Death / int_e22feb9c	type	Mind-Control Device
In Death / int_e22feb9c	comment	Mind-Control Device: It turns out that a VR console Roarke was planning to distribute turned out to be this, the doctor who assisted in making the console began using it as a demented way of driving people to suicide with smiles on their faces. Roarke almost meets the same fate except he realizes who the murderer was.
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In Death / int_e28f88b8	type	Last-Name Basis
In Death / int_e28f88b8	comment	Last-Name Basis: The only ones who regularly call Eve by her first name are Roarke and Dr. Mira. Feeney, Peabody, McNab, Summerset. Common for cops and other law enforcement personnel in general, to the point that Morris - first introduced in Rapture in Death - doesn't have his given name (Li) mentioned until more than two dozen books later in Promises in Death. Roarke takes it to the extreme; presumably he had a given name at one point, but he refuses to claim it now. This gets a Lampshade Hanging when a cop called Carmichael ends up transferred to Eve's division despite there already being a Detective Carmichael. The two are thereafter referred to as "Carmichael" and "Uniform Carmichael"/"the other Carmichael" to differentiate them, with Eve complaining (during Indulgence in Death) that both of them having the same name is confusing and one of them should change theirs.
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In Death / int_e482cfa7	type	To the Pain
In Death / int_e482cfa7	comment	To the Pain: Roarke explains to a shadow of Eve's past that he'd like nothing more than to peel the skin from her bones. One thin layer at a time.
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In Death / int_e5421161	type	Expy
In Death / int_e5421161	comment	Expy: Eve and Roarke bear a very strong resemblance to Mel Sutherland and Sebastian Donovan from Roberts's 1992 novella Entranced. Sutherland is a tough and prickly detective with short brown hair, like Eve, and Donovan is a wealthy and mysterious Irishman with black hair and blue eyes who Mel finds herself forced to work with on a case, like Roarke.
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In Death / int_e567510d	type	Determinator
In Death / int_e567510d	comment	Determinator: Plenty of them, but especially Eve. She will run herself until forced to stop and rest, generally by fellow determinator Roarke.
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In Death / int_e6291d05	type	Percussive Maintenance
In Death / int_e6291d05	comment	Percussive Maintenance: Eve's standard method of dealing with any and all technology.
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In Death / int_e83f211c	type	O.O.C. Is Serious Business
In Death / int_e83f211c	comment	O.O.C. Is Serious Business: Eve and Summerset's initial mutual antipathy gradually develops into a ritual of verbal sparring, carried out primarily when Eve comes home after a day's work and Summerset meets her in the foyer to exchange insults. Summerset being absent is not necessarily cause for Eve to be concerned, but any time they meet in the foyer and one of them fails to jab at the other, it's a clear and immediate sign that something serious is going on. And in Golden in Death, Peabody, one of the sweetest, nicest cops you'll ever meet, blows her stack at a snooty school headmistress who's been sneering at her Free Ager background. When he hears about this, Roarke is hard-put to believe it.
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In Death / int_e899b102	type	Sidekick
In Death / int_e899b102	comment	Sidekick: Delia Peabody to Eve; Troy Trueheart to Baxter.
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In Death / int_e8e56799	type	Blue-and-Orange Morality
In Death / int_e8e56799	comment	Blue-and-Orange Morality: The killer in Concealed in Death turns out to be emotionally and mentally stunted, and as such, was not able to comprehend that his murder of the girls and hiding their bodies in the orphanage was wrong, and in an intensely twisted way believed he was helping them. Eve was a bit put-off by the whole thing, and concedes that while he cannot be blamed for his mental deficiencies, he still must be held responsible for the murders he committed—as well as holding responsible the man who knowingly covered up both the perpetrator's mental problems and the murders to prevent damage to their family's name.
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In Death / int_eaf5a1ac	type	Groin Attack
In Death / int_eaf5a1ac	comment	Groin Attack: Roarke's tale of how he acquired his first handgun... from the guy aiming it at his head.
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In Death / int_eb5b71fe	type	Clingy Jealous Girl
In Death / int_eb5b71fe	comment	Clingy Jealous Girl: An interesting and sympathetic example with Eve. Roarke can be very affectionate and flirty with female friends, but Eve's very good at distinguishing when she has a reason to be jealous (Magdelana shows up clearly angling to rekindle the relationship in Innocent in Death) and when she doesn't (Roarke gives Nadine a good luck kiss or strokes Peabody's hair after a bad scare).
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In Death / int_eb81c601	type	Big Damn Heroes
In Death / int_eb81c601	comment	Big Damn Heroes: Eve frequently has such moments at the climax of a novel's storyline. Roarke has also done it a few times. At the end of the first novel, the cat Eve brings home from a crime scene becomes this, attacking the Dragon-in-Chief trying to kill Eve in revenge, delaying his final shot long enough for Roarke to pull one too. It's why Eve names him Galahad.
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In Death / int_ed874c14	type	Self-Made Man
In Death / int_ed874c14	comment	Self-Made Man: Roarke was a poor immigrant from Ireland and became one of the richest men on Earth. As revealed in Naked in Death, Roarke was delivering a cargo to a customer who tried to kill him to avoid paying the transportation fee but his would-be-killer "was distracted by [Roarke's] foot in his crotch". Later on the same book, he claims he made his first million gambling.
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In Death / int_ee7a60e9	type	One-Steve Limit
In Death / int_ee7a60e9	comment	One-Steve Limit: When Roarke orders his computer to run a "search on Siobhan Brody, born County Clare, Ireland, between 2003 and 2006", the computer finds 33 matches. Filtering the search to display only those who "were one of twins" narrows it down to 4. Roarke finally finds the right one when adding the fact the twin is a girl named Sinead.
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In Death / int_f025884b	type	TheAntiChrist
In Death / int_f025884b	comment	The Antichrist: David Baines Conroy in Ceremony in Death is a mass murderer who presented himself as the anti-Christ. He was caught prior to the start of the series; his case comes onto Eve's radar when it turns out that his son is involved in her current case. The son, Charles "Chas" Forte, is being set up as a suspect by the real killers.
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In Death / int_f0c4ce7d	type	The Lost Lenore
In Death / int_f0c4ce7d	comment	The Lost Lenore: Morris gains one in Promises following Amaryllis Coltraine's murder. Father Lopez also has one in Salvation.
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In Death / int_f16da697	type	Undying Loyalty
In Death / int_f16da697	comment	Undying Loyalty: Eve and Roarke to each other. Eve to Feeney. Eve's squad to Eve, especially Peabody.
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In Death / int_f19b8b46	type	The Coroner
In Death / int_f19b8b46	comment	Feeney, Peabody, McNab, Summerset. Common for cops and other law enforcement personnel in general, to the point that Morris - first introduced in Rapture in Death - doesn't have his given name (Li) mentioned until more than two dozen books later in Promises in Death.
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In Death / int_f237981e	type	The Alleged Car
In Death / int_f237981e	comment	The Alleged Car: Eve drives a string of them which she is secretly attached to, before Roarke insists on buying her a Damage-Proof Vehicle.
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In Death / int_f2bd0945	type	Closet Geek
In Death / int_f2bd0945	comment	Closet Geek: Borderline case with Roarke, who reads 'graphic novels' and knows about Iron Man, Batman and other fandoms, but still acts like a sophisticated businessman, in contrast to every other tech-savvy character who is a full out geek or nerd.
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In Death / int_f32d85ab	type	20 Minutes into the Future
In Death / int_f32d85ab	comment	20 Minutes into the Future: The first book is set in 2058, with subsequent books proceeding into the early 2060s. Technology has made numerous advancements (including the ever-popular flying cars) and humans have established colonies and commercial facilities in space; prostitution has been legalized and regulated, while guns and unrecycled paper products have been banned and vegetable/soy substitutes for environmentally touchy products like meat and coffee are widespread. References are made to Urban Wars that occurred in the early 21st century and ended in 2016.
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In Death / int_f3d5d15f	type	Creepy Child
In Death / int_f3d5d15f	comment	Creepy Child: Rayleen Straffo, in Innocent in Death.
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In Death / int_f511ea9b	type	Product Placement
In Death / int_f511ea9b	comment	For various things, and averted on so few occasions that you might start wondering about Product Placement (or at least Author Appeal), since Pepsi seems to be one of the only, if not the only, major brand to survive the Urban Wars.
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In Death / int_f5d2b49a	type	Give Me Back My Wallet
In Death / int_f5d2b49a	comment	Give Me Back My Wallet: Every now and then, Eve will catch other people getting their pockets picked, and apprehend the thief. But Roarke has been shown to pick Eve's pocket without her noticing, for fun.
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In Death / int_f682ee6e	type	Villainous Mother-Son Duo
In Death / int_f682ee6e	comment	Villainous Mother-Son Duo: Madeline Bullock, the main antagonist of Born In Death, is a particularly nasty version. She uses her son Chase as the muscle in her infant trafficking operation, having Chase kill off her targets. She's likewise been sexually abusing Chase since his childhood. Eve Dallas outright accuses her of intentionally corrupting him for her own benefit.
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In Death / int_f6972f9d	type	The Mourning After
In Death / int_f6972f9d	comment	The Mourning After: Morris spends several books in mourning after Coltraine is murdered in Promises in Death. Four books and a novella later, Indulgence in Death shows him just starting to wear colors other than black again.
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In Death / int_f6db5b1e	type	RidiculouslyHumanRobot
In Death / int_f6db5b1e	comment	Ridiculously Human Robot: There are "droids", both human and animal, but close observation can make them as not real.
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In Death / int_f7a458c3	comment	Dartboard of Hate: In Ceremony in Death, it's revealed that, because of how bad Eve is with machines, "the guys in Maintenance shoot air darts at [her] picture".
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In Death / int_f8600b	comment	Cool Big Sis: Peabody thinks of Dallas this way, while Dallas is impressed by Mira's grace, style and poise, to the point of her mental descriptions reaching near girl-crush levels.
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In Death / int_f8e010ce	comment	Evil Cannot Comprehend Good: In Judgment in Death, Roarke says Ricker "expects deceit because he's a liar himself".
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In Death / int_f951f89b	comment	Bad to the Last Drop: In this future genuine coffee is an expensive luxury that only the rich can afford, most people making do with an artificially flavored substitute (and the coffee at Central is reputed to be bad even by this lowered standard). So more than anything else Roarke's wealth can buy, Eve cherishes the high-quality genuine coffee that Roarke maintains a plantation in Brazil just for his household supply. A bag of such coffee was his first gift to her.
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In Death / int_f9f2c33	comment	Running Gag: The candy thief, who is probably just waiting to become a Chekhov's Gunman. Eve's ongoing feud with all sorts of mechanical and/or electronic systems. For example, the drink machine at Eve's precinct which seems to hate her as much she hates it. It's practically Once a Novel that she orders someone else to get her a tube of Pepsi from the thing. Eve forgetting or losing her gloves, and everyone's recognition of the same. In Midnight in Death she's appalled when Summerset tells her that the gloves Roarke has given her are handmade mink-lined Italian leather: "Mink lining, for Christ's sake. I'll have lost them by next week, then some stupid mink will have died for nothing." Before getting her special car from Roarke, Eve had a minor running gag about her problems with requisitions because of her cars always getting blown up or wrecked, and them giving her terrible replacements. Detective Jenkinson's hideous ties. He has a different one in every appearance. (Readers get the impression that Roberts has a lot of fun thinking them up.) His partner often wears hideous socks to match. In Devoted in Death another pair of detectives in Eve's team are sent down to Texas, and the male detective comes back wearing a Stetson, to general ridicule. He explains that he lost a bet to his female partner (possibly involving a mechanical bull) and has to wear it for a week as his penance. Every alternative book since, Eve runs into the detective while he's wearing the Stetson around the bullpen, and asks why. The answer is always "I lost a bet [to his partner] about..." It gets to the point where Eve simply asks, "What was the bet?"
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In Death / int_faf36236	comment	Cyberpunk: In all but name. Flying cars, Future Slang, Ridiculously Human Robots, soy-everything, super computers, Fiction 500 Mega Corps, Virtual Reality...were the setting not already established to be New York, you would be forgiven for thinking Eve operated out of Niihama or Night City. The "punk" part isn't quite as traditional, given that Eve and Roarke are a police detective and megacorp owner, respectively, occupations which are often portrayed as the villains in other cyberpunk settings. That being said, however, there are Corrupt Cops and Corrupt Corporate Executives depicted in the series frequently enough to quite heavily imply that Roarke, Eve, and their immediate associates are White Sheep in an otherwise rather dystopian world.
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In Death / int_fb3576b2	comment	The Dog Bites Back: At the end of Echoes in Death, Eve confirms that the serial rapist-turned-murderer she'd just caught was not the killer of the novel's first victim. After the victim and his wife were assaulted and the wife was violently raped by the novel's main perp, the victim turned on his wife in a rage, blaming her for the assault and threatening to kill her. The long-abused woman killed her husband in self-defense.
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In Death / int_fccd06b6	comment	Beware the Nice Ones: Peabody, who is good at appearing to sympathize with people, and Trueheart, who Eve says has an 'officer friendly way about him', and takes advantage of this to fool people into lowering their guard. Both contrast their senior partners who both show the tough cop image. Roarke in spades. While he is a former Dublin street rat and current Fiction 500 billionaire, he is one of the most polite, friendly, and cheerful people in the series. But for the love of Christ do not piss him off if you value your life and livelihood.
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In Death / int_fed93e1b	comment	Dark and Troubled Past: Dallas, Roarke, Dr. Mira. How they each dealt with it is a large part of their characterization, and set them on their respective paths.
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