"'Written under the pen name J.D. Robb, this futuristic mystery - set in New York City, year 2059 - showcases veteran writer Nora Roberts's skills at their best. It's as tough, smart, sassy and successful as its heroine, police lieutenant Eve Dallas' Publishers Weekly"

J. D. Robb is the pseudonym of New York Times bestselling author Nora Roberts.

'She stood in Purgatory and studied death. The blood and the gore of it, the ferocity of its glee. it had come to this place with the wilful temper of a child, full of heat and passion and careless brutality.' In an uptown strip joint a cop is found bludgeoned to death. The weapon's a baseball bat. The motive is 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 viceridden damnation...