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Reunion in Death

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**Title** **Reunion In Death**
Reunion in Death 2nd Edition US Cover
Book Number	16
Publisher	Berkley
Released	March 5, 2002
Pages	384
Size and weight	8.1 x 4.1 x 1.4 inches / 4 ounces
ISBN Numbers	ISBN 978-0425183977
Preceded by	Seduction in Death
Followed by	Purity in Death

Plot Summary

At exactly 7:30 p.m., Walter Pettibone arrived home to over a hundred friends and family shouting, "surprise!" It was his birthday. Although he had known about the planned event for weeks, the real surprise was yet to come. At 8:45 p.m., a woman with emerald eyes and red hair handed him a glass of champagne. One sip of birthday bubbly, and he was dead.

The woman's name is Julie Dockport. No one at the party knew who she was. But Detective Eve Dallas remembers her all too well. Eve was personally responsible for her incarceration nearly ten years ago. And now, let out on good behavior, she still has nothing but bad intentions. It appears she wants to meet Dallas again - in a reunion neither will forget...

--Penguin Group

Timeline

Spoiler warning: Plot or ending details follow. CONTINUE READING AT YOUR OWN RISK!

Approximate Story Start Date: July, 2059^[1]

Summer - 2059

Walter C. Pettibone is murdered at his surprise birthday party while shocked friends and family look on in horror. Meanwhile, Julie Dockport congratulates herself on a job well done and proceeds to alter her image for the next stop on her agenda. This sets the scene for a chilling reunion with a cold ruthless killer from Lt. Eve Dallas' past, leading her down a path she must revisit, toward a horrifying past she would rather not remember.

Day 1

Walter Pettibone is murdered.
Eve and Roarke have just returned from a 2 week vacation (one week in Mexico and one week on a private island)
Eve and Delia Peabody dig up a cold case: Marsha Stibbs, young wife who was murdered while her husband Boyd was out of town.
Eve gives Peabody the Stibbs case. (Peabody's first solo case)
Eve and Peabody return to Cop Central only to find absolute chaos and mayhem. The smell of baked goods lingers in the air. It's Peabody's Free-Ager parents, Sam and Phoebe Peabody.
Later that evening Eve reminisces with Roarke over the first case Feeney gave her: Thomas Carter. Blown to bits in his sedan; mistaken identity.
The Peabodys have dinner at Eve and Roarke's house during which Eve gets the call from dispatch regarding Pettibone's murder. Eve, Peabody and Ian McNab go to the scene of the crime.
Walter Pettibone was killed by a glass of champagne that was laced with a shot of cyanide. The glass was personally delivered by a red-headed waitress who conveniently disappears before the police arrive.
Eve and Roarke go over the Pettibone case and Eve finds that the killer is someone from her past, Julianna Dunne

Day 2

Eve does her morning workout and goes for a swim where Phoebe surprises a very naked Eve and gives her a gift: a statue of the goddess, a family heirloom.
Eve has her morning briefing in her home office where Peabody sees the statue and gets all teary. She then tells Eve that her mother has accepted her as part of the family.
Eve informs her team that the killer is Julianna Dunne.
Later, Peabody tells Eve her theory on the Stibbs case and Eve gives her the go ahead.

Day 3

Eve and Feeney head to Chicago to talk to people who may have had contact with Julianna Dunne where she was detained, Dockport Rehabilitation Center (a correctional facility where Eve helped put her).
After Dockport, on her way home, Eve stops by Dr. Mira's house where she meets Mr. Mira for the first time. Dr. Mira confirms Eve's belief that Roarke is Julianna's main target.
Eve returns home to find Mavis Freestone and Leonardo ready to party at the Down and Dirty Club. Sam, who is an empath, finds Eve upstairs and wants to help get rid of her headache. He accidentally "sees" Eve's childhood and is appalled and angry with himself for intruding. Eve loses her temper and gets half drunk at the D&D while ignoring Sam.
Later that night, Eve tells Roarke that she thinks he is Julianna's real target. She also decides to go to Dallas to speak with Julianna's step-father and to confront some personal demons.

Day 4

- 06 45 - Julianna Dunne (as Janet Drake) again enters the building in uptown Manhattan that contains the law offices of Mouton, Carlston, and Fitch‎.
- 06 53 - Henry Mouton enters the building in uptown Manhattan that contains the law offices of Mouton, Carlson, and Fitch.
- 07 15 - Julianna takes out Henry Mouton with cyanide in his coffee, posing as clerical temp, Janet Drake.
- 07 18 - Julianna leaves the building.
Eve examines Henry Mouton's body and talks to Olivia Fitch, one of Henry's partners and his second wife. Julianna Dunne's fingerprints are found all over the break room and she is captured on a security tape entering and leaving the building.
Eve assembles her team in a conference room and establishes the timeline/frame of when and how the murder occurred and discusses Julianna's focus on Roarke.
The computer establishes that there is a 51.8% chance that Roarke is Julianna's next target. Eve muses upon Julianna's new pattern of posing as an employee versus her old one of society butterfly and thinks about her preferred method of murder - poison. She decides to track down where the cyanide came from but before that, she calls Charles Monroe to schedule a conjugal visit for Maria Sanchez at Dockport.
Eve and Peabody hunt down Mook in VR Hell, a V.R. bondage club, to get info on a cyanide supplier who may be supplying Julianna Dunne.
Meets with Nadine Furst for a one on one meeting to discuss the fact that she wants more media coverage on Julianna so she'll find it harder to "blend in" especially since there's a better than fifty percent chance that she is targeting Roarke.
An outraged Julianna who sees Eve's broadcast interview with Nadine vows to bring down Eve and her husband.
Roarke seeing the same broadcast muses on Eve's intelligent tactic of trying to focus Dunne's rage onto her instead of Roarke - a tactic he disagrees with and thinks about how Eve has changed his life for the better.
Eve drives home to see Peabody's parents locked in a passionate embrace. Phoebe leaves Sam and Eve so they can talk and Sam tells Eve that he admires her despite or because of the glimpse of her childhood that he saw: "When I look at you I see strength and courage and purpose beyond anything I've ever known. I see my daughter's friend, a woman I trust with my child's life." An embarrassed and pleased Eve asks Sam if anybody manages to stay mad at him and he replies that "Phoebe manages it for short spaces of time" and they resolve the uneasiness that lay between them.
Eve catches Summerset using her NYPSD sweatshirt as a rag and they fight over it.
Eve continues to work in her home office and narrows in on possible suppliers of the cyanide.
Dr. Dimatto calls Eve with the name of the doctor with a shady past as Dr. Young.
Eve decides to go pay him a visit and Roarke insists on accompanying her as he owns the apartment building.
They arrive to find the doctor dead.He has been dead for two days.

Day 5

Eve is freaked out by the sprawling ranches and empty spaces of Texas while enroute to meet Jake T. Parker, Julianna's stepfather.
Jake admits to being enticed by Julianna, but also states that she was not a virgin at the time. They also meet Julianna's first boyfriend, Chuck Springer, who admitted that Julianna chased him and after he broke off their relationship, she became vindictive. She went as far as to send him a dead rat on Valentine's Day after his wedding.

Then they go to Dallas. She asks Roarke to drive around and finally recognizes the area.
They go to the Traveler's Inn which was 3 miles from the alley where Eve was found.
They ask for room 911 and Eve recalls her horrible childhood and faces her demons. She also realizes that they never gave her a name.
Later they return home and she leaves for Central, to lock herself in her office and sit and brood.
Then she leaves for Mira's office. She discusses the case and her recollections from Dallas and her anxieties over how its affecting Roarke.
She leaves at end of shift and Peabody begs a lift with eve to meet her parents who are staying at Roarke's.
Outside Central they are ambushed by Julianna's cleverly set up team, a homeless man and a young boy. Though Eve chases her, she is thwarted by the boy who crashes into her and sends her flying.
Eve bangs her head and passes out. Roarke arrives,tagged by a scared Peabody.
He promises her ice cream and holds her down for the MTs.
She wakes up in hospital screaming murder; he secures her release by promising to have Louise look after her at home.
Louise treats her wounds and Sam helps alleviate her pains and aches.

Day6

In her home office, at her team meet, she figures out that Julianna must have been watching her to set up the ambush.
They rush to the offices of Justine Daily, only to find that Julianna had gone, leaving a disk and flowers with a get well cad for Eve.
They watch the disk where Julianna tries to justify herself and says herself and Dallas are like sisters.She also informs Eve about the whereabouts of her next victim in Denver, at the Mile High Hotel, one Spencer Campbell in Suite 4020.
The suite had been booked by Juliet Darcy and Spencer had an appointment with her to advise her on investment options.
Eve and Peabody go looking for public and private transport in and out of Denver.

Meanwhile, Mira shows up at Roarke's office. He agrees to meet her and they skirt around the visit to Dallas. Roarke makes it clear to doesn't want to discuss it. Disappointed Mira gets up to leave, when he bursts out, asking how his spilling his gut would help Eve? She convinces him to talk to her.
He tells her how it felt to watch Eve relive her nightmare and be helpless to do anything.
Mira tells him it is precisely because of this helplessness that he is as affected by the events in Dallas as Eve herself. Then she convinces him that his love has healed her and given her the strength to face her repressed memories. She also tells him Eve is emotionally secure and stronger because of him and his love.
Roarke wants to go back in time and beat her father with his bare fists. Mira shocks him by agreeing that she too wishes for that because she too loves Eve.

Eve tracks down the private shuttle used by Julianna. The pilot and the stewardess identify Julianna from photos.
As Peabody and Eve have lunch by the Plaza, Eve coaches Peabody through the best way to bring in Maureen Stibbs for interview, and Eve agrees to observe.
She talks to Detective Green of Denver Homicide who agrees to hold up the paperwork for a few days, so that the Feds are kept out for a few days.
Eve runs possibilities for spa resorts where Julianna might go for a little R & R.
She observes Peabody's interview and when Peabody seems to falter, she sent in Trueheart with a little note, which tells her to implicate the husband and shatter her fantasies. Peabody gets her confidence back and breaks down the woman who admits, that after they have an argument she pushed and Marsha fell, cracking her head.
Eve is trying to identify the spas in Europe where Julianna might go to, when Whitney calls her and her team in.

She arrives to find Roarke there, along with Feeney and McNab.Whitney commends Peabody on closing her first case.
Whitney tells her that the Chief and himself are under pressure on the Julianna Dunne case, which seems to be stalled.
Feeney jumps in her defense, saying it was Dallas who put her in a cage and because of some idiots she's out again, and maybe Whitney and the Chief should remember that.
While Eve is reluctant to admit that Roarke is a likely target, Whitney corners her and informs her that Roarke himself has offered to appear in public to flush Julianna out. They exchange words and Eve comes very close to insubordination.
When Roarke tries to placate her, she turns on him. Whitney chides her for using his office to sort out her marriage problems, and she tells him that he made it the place for it when he ambushed her in front of her team, with the civilian's cooperation. Whitney dismisses her.
Eve storms off. Peabody turns on Roarke, stunning him with, "Did she not get enough of a pounding yesterday?"
Roarke follows Eve and drives them both somewhere to have it out. When Eve tells him that if someone had ambushed him in a similar way, he would have their head on a platter and their blood for sauce, he sees his mistake.
They go home and work on the security for the planned event at Roarke's Regency hotel, though Eve is also pursuing her spas.
She narrows down the possibilities and pins Josephine Dorchester in an Italian spa.

Day7

But they travel through the night in Roarke's jet and arrive in Italy. They cover the last lap in his Jet-copter and arrive as dawn breaks over the Alps only to find she had escaped, warned by the receptionist, as it turned out.
They prepare for the event well. Eve warns Roarke not to drink anything at the venue. The rest of the day is spent going over the plans and the security again and again.

Day8

This day is also spent similarly on fine tuning the security and trying to anticipate events. Then the screen goes blank.
Roarke had shut off her system. He massages her neck, saying "Happy Anniversary."
She tells him she too remembers but wanted to wait till the ugliness of Julianna was dealt with. He drags her to the holo room where he has recreated the first night from their honeymoon in Paris. Then he gives her a St. Jude's medal for protection and a pair of earrings worn by an Irish warrior Princess.
She gives him a painting of the moment just after they were married and before their first kiss as husband and wife.

Day9

They prepare carefully for the public event which has been well publicized by Roarke's media wing. They both wear wires and carry authorized weapons. Eve persuades Roarke to accept a department sanctioned stunner than one of his own.
Though Eve tries to stay as close to Roarke as possible, but Louise leads him away to talk to the mayor. Charles keeps Eve talking and she's trying to keep Roarke in her line of sight. She tells Charles that she needs to talk to Roarke right away.
As people move towards the dinner tables, she hears Feeney in her ear telling he s about 20 feet away at three o'clock.
Julianna is approaching Roarke with a single flute of champagne when Eve spots her, and Julianna realizes she has been set up.
She passes the flute to another man and rushes up the stairs. Eve rams into the man on her way to Julianna, spilling the champagne on his suit.
Julianna locks herself in a room; when Eve blasts the locks, there is an explosion. Eve loses her weapon and her ear piece is damaged.
Eve rushes in and fists flying goes at Julianna. She orders the other cops to stay back, including Roarke. Still fighting, Eve and Julianna go through the terrace doors and fall onto the people glide two floors down. From there she jumps to the open air restaurant, and Eve follows.
She grabs a bottle of merlot and smashing it, comes after Eve with its ragged edge. Eve gives her two flying kicks, dead in the face and sends Julianna smashing into one of the glass tables.
Then she reads her her rights and cuffing her, turns her over to Peabody to be booked and held for questioning. Then Roarke carts her off to a room to be looked over by Louise.

Memorable Quotes

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Eve: "Officers, if you can manage to tear yourselves away from the all-you-can-eat buffet, take posts outside the doors of both kitchen exits. As cause of death has not yet been officially called, I'll remind you that you're stuffing evidence in your faces. If necessary, I'll have you both cut open so that evidence can be removed."

Eve: "I know where I am and when I am. And that we've got an anniversary coming up in couple days. And, Carlo, I've never loved you more."

Roarke: "I feel exactly the same way, Miranda. If you're feeling better perhaps I can let the children come in. Carlo Junior, Robbie, Anna and little Alice are anxious to see their mum."

Eve: "Trying to scare an invalid. You vicious bastard."

Eve: "And second, sometime when you least expect it, I'm going to generate a memo to the top staff of your midtown offices stating that you wear women's underwear under those manly designer suits."

Roarke: "Why, that's just cold."

Eve: "Yeah, then you'll have to strip down at a general meeting to prove it's a filthy lie and my vengeance will be complete."

Commander Whitney: "Lieutenant, are you afraid of my wife?"

Eve: "Yes, sir," she said without hesitation. "I am."

Eve: "I'm fit to kick righteous ass if one more person sees my tits this morning."

Eve: "We made ourselves. Now, I guess, we make each other."

Eve (while on pain blockers): "Think you're so smart. ... But you're more pretty. So. pretty. Give me a kiss. Love that mouth. Like to bite it."

Roarke: "She won't give you anymore trouble."

Eve: "Bet I flew ten feet. Whee."

Peabody: "Welcome back Dallas. And I have to say that, wow, you look really terrific. Snappy outfit."

Eve: "What the hell do I usually look like?"

Peabody: "Is that a rhetorical question?"

Charles Monroe (quoting Maria Sanchez's outlook on life): "The fuckers are all out to get you, so you'd better get them first."

Eve: "Somebody ought to sew that on a pillow."

Jack Whitney: "Lieutenant Dallas, this office is not the place for your marital disagreements."

Eve : "You made it the place. This is an ambush, and one that circumvents my authority, that puts that authority on the block in front of my team."

"Whitney" : "Point taken, Your team is dismissed."

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Trivia

Eve and Roarke celebrated their 1st wedding anniversary.
Roarke gave earrings that belonged to Gráinne Ní Mháille and a St. Jude's medallion.
Eve gave a painting of the two of them on their wedding right before they kissed as husband and wife for the first time.
Eve went back to the place in Dallas and faced the horrible events of her childhood before she was found in the alley.
Eve is persuaded by Roarke to get her ears pierced.
We are introduced to Phoebe and Sam Peabody - Delia's parents.
Officer Delia Peabody solves her first solo case, a cold case, with Eve's help.

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Footnotes

↑ Pg. 5. PUT SOME REFERENCE TO THE APPROXIMATE TIME FRAME FOR THIS BOOK HERE. I.E. A QUOTE FROM THE BOOK THAT REFERENCES A DATE. USUALLY, THIS WILL BE SOME CRIME SCENE DATE REFERENCE THAT EVE WILL FIND SOMEWHERE.

Eve and Roarke are having their first wedding anniversary, so that date is July 11th, 2059. It is the day before Julianna Dunne is arrested.

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Contents

Plot Summary

Timeline

Day 1

Day 2

Day 3

Day 4

Day 5

Day6

Day7

Day8

Day9

Memorable Quotes

Character List

List of Main Characters Appearing in this Book

List of Secondary Characters Appearing in this Book

List of Recurring Characters Appearing in this Book

List of Minor Characters Appearing in this Book

List of Peripheral Characters Appearing in this Book

Trivia

Other Covers

Other Releases

Footnotes