History Literature / InDeath

* TriangRelations:
** Type Four. Webster is in love with Eve who is married to Roarke. Roarke is aware of Webster's infatuations, resulting in the two men fighting each other briefly. Afterwards, they come to an understanding: Webster is in love with Eve, and Roarke doesn't mind as long as Webster doesn't try anything on her, and remembers she is his wife.
** [[spoiler: In ''Treachery in Death'', Webster recently started a relationship with Darcia Angelo and it seems pretty serious. So he's moving on and things are finally resolving.]]

* BlueAndOrangeMorality: The killer in [[spoiler:''Concealed in Death'' turns out to be emotionally and mentally stunted, and as such, was not able to ''comprehend'' that his murder of the girls and hiding their bodies in the orphanage was wrong, and in an intensely twisted way believed he was ''helping'' them. Eve was a bit put-off by the whole thing, and concedes that while he cannot be blamed for his mental deficiencies, he still must be held responsible for the murders he committed.]]

* {{Blackmail}}: A number of individuals use this in the series. Some of them even tried this on a murderer, in a blatant WhatAnIdiot manuever. Every single one of these individuals ended up as an AssholeVictim.

* TheyFightCrime: A multi-millionare ex-criminal and a cop team up together to solve crimes.

A series of books by Creator/NoraRoberts (writing as J.D. Robb), featuring police detective Eve Dallas in [[TwentyMinutesIntoTheFuture 2058 New York City]]. The series has been described as ''Franchise/LawAndOrder'' [-[[InSpace IN THE FUTURE]]!-] She meets, and later marries, the multi-billionaire [[OnlyOneName Roarke]]. The series concerns Eve and Roarke, and their efforts to catch various killers, psychos, and the occasional case of science gone bad.

* CyberPunk: In spades. [[FlyingCar Flying cars]], FutureSlang, RidiculouslyHumanRobots, [[FutureFoodIsArtificial soy-everything]], super computers, Fiction500 {{Mega Corp}}s, VirtualReality...it's essentially Cyberpunk in all but name.

** Also, after AssholeVictim extraordinaire Richard Draco is murdered, someone gets the [[SarcasmMode bright idea]] to try and blackmail the murderer. [[TooDumbToLive Unsurprisingly, the would-be blackmailer winds up dead.]]

* {{Blackmail}}: A number of individuals use this in the series. Some of them even tried this on a murderer, in a blatant WhatAnIdiot manuever. Every single one of these individuals ended up as an AssholeVictim.
** Case in point, the victim in ''Memory In Death''. No only is she dumb enough to try and blackmail New York's top homicide detective, who happens to be married to the richest man in the known universe and is '''very''' capable of slowly tearing her limb from limb with a cheerful smile on his face, but she was setting up for a ''second'' attempt when she was offed. It is sometimes hard to feel sorry for these people.
** The victim in ''Secrets in Death'' was a longtime blackmailer with a very long list of marks and prospective marks, making an equally long list of suspects for Eve to comb through.

* HairColors: Mavis and Trina, self-induced. Mavis in particular has a different hair color and style every time she appears, even within the same novel; there has yet to be any indication as to what her natural color might be.

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* MysteriousMiddleInitial: Thomas X. Brennen.

* ArtisticLicenseBiology: ''Naked in Death'' perpetuates the myth made popular by ''Film/{{Goldfinger}}'' in a crime anecdote that Feeney relates to Eve, involving a sex offender and murderer who coated his victims head to foot with red paint which suffocated them to death. "Skin's gotta breathe," Feeney explains. In reality, while it certainly wouldn't be ''healthy'' for someone to have their skin coated with paint, it wouldn't kill them - certainly not by suffocation, and the police report that Feeney was reading should have provided reasonably accurate information about cause of death.

* InTheBlood: Eve and Roarke sure hope not. Whether or not this is true is a major theme in the books.

* NatureVersusNurture: Eve and Roarke both struggle on and off with the question of how much of their monstrous parents and generally horrible childhoods they carry with them, as they have both genes ''and'' environment working against them. The series overall seems to take the stance that while genetics and upbringing can both shape a person, the real answer is often "neither" - for every perp who has it InTheBlood or was warped by the circumstances and events of their lives, there's one (examples include ''Innocent in Death'' and ''Thankless in Death'') who had perfectly normal, caring parents who did their best to raise their child right, with no history of trauma, abuse, or hereditary mental instability. Some people, it seems, are simply born monsters... but by the same token, it's possible for a person to rise above horrific parents and childhood and make something better out of themselves (Eve and Roarke themselves).

* MindControlDevice: [[spoiler: It turns out that a VR console Roarke was planning to distribute turned out to be this, the doctor who assisted in making the console began using it as a demented way of [[DrivenToSuicide driving people to suicide]] [[GoOutWithASmile with smiles on their faces.]] Roarke almost meets the same fate except he realizes who the murderer was.]]

* ClingyJealousGirl: An interesting and sympathetic example with Eve. Roarke can be very affectionate and flirty with female friends, but Eve's very good at distinguishing when she has a reason to be jealous (Maggie, the OldFlame, shows up clearly angling to rekindle the relationship in ''Innocent in Death'') and when she doesn't (Roarke gives Nadine a good luck kiss or strokes Peabody's hair after a bad scare).