Chapter 1 Summary

Naked in Death is the first in the Death series featuring Eve Dallas and her lover, Roarke. This novel is set in the year 2058, creating a setting that is futuristic, but not so far advanced that a complicated world has to be created for the reader. In fact, many things about this novel are similar to modern day mysteries, except for laws implemented in the years between reality and Dallas' fictional world.

Eve Dallas wakes the morning after she has been forced to kill a suspect after entering his apartment in an attempt to save his child from his drug induced rage. This death haunts Dallas, because she is not sure she did all she could to save the child. Today Dallas is scheduled for Testing, a routine after any cop-related killing. However, before Dallas can dress and leave for the day, she...