Rapture in death: Three apparent suicides: a brilliant engineer, an infamous lawyer, and a controversial politician. Three strangers with nothing in common and no obvious reasons for killing themselves. Police lieutenant Eve Dallis found the deaths suspicious and her instincts paid off when autopsies revealed small burns on the brains of the victims. Ceremony in death: Conducting a top secret investigation into the death of a felllow police officer has Lieutenant Eve Dallas treading on dangerous ground. She must put professional ethics before personal loyalties. But when a dead body is placed outside her home, Eve takes the warning personally. With her husband, Roarke, watching her every move, Eve is drawn into the most dangerous case of her career. Vengeance in death: Eve Dallas found the first victim butchered in his own home. The second lost his life in a vacant luxury apartment. The two men had little in common. Both suffered unspeakable torture before their deaths and both had ties to an ugly secret of ten years ago, a secret shared by none other than Eve's new husband, Roarke.