Memory in Death

Police Lt. Eve Dallas walks a tightrope between her professional duties and her private demons. When the twisted woman who tormented Eve's childhood tries to blackmail Eve's husband Roarke and ends up dead, Eve and Roarke follow a dangerous path to find out who turned the victimizer into victim.
In mid-twenty-first-century New York, Eve Dallas's 'tough cop' exterior is shaken by her twisted former foster mother's demands for money in exchange for protecting secrets from Dallas's childhood - a situation that becomes more complicated when the woman is found murdered.