Book #25 was Witness in Death, the 10th book in J.D. Robb’s In Death series. The back of the book reads:

It is 2059, and New York City homicide lieutenant Eve Dallas’s husband, Roarke, is producing a revival of Agatha Christie’s thriller Witness for the Prosecution. On opening night, when the villainous character Leonard Vole gets his just deserts, someone substitutes a kitchen knife for the prop knife, and the actor, Richard Draco, is stabbed through the heart. Trouble is, in time-tested British mystery fashion, everyone in the cast had good reason to despise Richard, a misogynist who seduced and discarded beautiful young women, including one whom he knew to be his daughter. It’s up to Eve to solve the case, an emotionally difficult task as she is no stranger to incest herself: she was beaten and raped by her father before she managed to escape him. As Eve fights to keep her head above water, she tries to bond at a deeper level with Roarke, so that her future will heal the pain of her past.

Book count: 25
Pages in book: 368
Page count: 10,314
Words in book: 101,723
Word count: 2,917,748

Book #26 was Judgment in Death, the 11th book in J.D. Robb’s In Death series. The back of the book reads:

The latest romantic suspense novel featuring New York City police lieutenant Eve Dallas.When a cop killer cuts loose in a club called Purgatory, Eve Dallas descends into an underground criminal hell…In an uptown strip joint, a cop is found bludgeoned to death. The weapon’s a baseball bat. The motive’s a mystery. It’s a case of serious overkill that pushes Eve Dallas straight into overdrive. Her investigation uncovers a private club that’s more than a hot spot. Purgatory’s a last chance for atonement where everyone is judged. Where your ultimate fate depends on your most intimate sins. And where one cop’s hidden secrets are about to plunge innocent souls into vice-ridden damnation…

Book count: 26
Pages in book: 368
Page count: 10,682
Words in book: 105,821
Word count: 3,023,569

Book #27 was Betrayal in Death, the 12th book in J.D. Robb’s In Death series. The back of the book reads:

New York Lieutenant Eve Dallas is up against a hit-man for the elite, whose next target may be her own husband, Roarke.

Book count: 27
Pages in book: 355
Page count: 11,037
Words in book: 101,906
Word count: 3,125,475

Book #28 was Purity in Death, the 15th book in J.D. Robb’s In Death series. The back of the book reads:

Purity in Death finds our heroine on an assignment that leaves her even more tormented by the past. When a deadly computer virus is unleashed on society’s undesirables (namely, child abusers), it’s up to Eve — along with her astonishingly handsome husband, Roarke; her feisty aide, Peabody; e-geek McNab; and her mentor, Captain Feeny — to discover the origins of the virus and shut down the clandestine vigilante group that created it before the next target is marked for execution.

Eve’s task is complicated further as she grapples with her demons (as a child-abuse victim, it was a matter of survival that led Eve to kill her father) and squares off with Roarke, who does not regard the group’s intentions as inherently bad. Once again, she must muddle through those gray areas of right and wrong as she seeks to “stand for the dead,” and answer the question of whether the group is justified in its actions, or whether they simply represent a new breed of terrorist.

Book count: 28
Pages in book: 368
Page count: 11,405
Words in book: 101,345
Word count: 3,226,820

1,000,000 words surpassed — 2/2/06
2,000,000 words surpassed — 2/14/06
10,000 pages surpassed — 3/10/06
3,000,000 words surpassed — 3/16/06

These seemed like good travel/sitting-around-my-mother’s-house books. I’m not sure how Robb manages to keep things fresh after 15 books.