title: Lethal Friendship: A Mother's Battle to Put--and Keep--a Serial Killer Behind Bars
author: Sue Young
description: Michigan resident Sue Young won the Michigan Victim Advocate of the Year award, and is a participant in the Victims and the Media Program at Michigan State University?s School of Journalism. Sue holds a BA from the University of Texas and a master?s from Duke University.
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  Born in Death
  
  
  In Death [27]
  
  
  J. D. Robb
  
  
  Penguin (2007)
  
  
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  Rating:
  
  
  ★★★★☆
  
  
  Tags:
  
  
  Mystery & Detective
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  # Chapter 1
  
  The ways and means of friendship were murderous. In order to navigate its
  twisty maze, a friend could be called upon to perform inconvenient,
  irritating, or downright horrifying acts at any given time.  
  
  The worst, the very worst requirement of friendship, in Eve Dallas’s opinion,
  was sitting through an entire evening of childbirth classes.  
  
  What went on there—the sights, the sounds, the assault on all the
  senses—turned the blood cold.  
  
  She was a cop, a Homicide lieutenant with eleven years on the job protecting
  and defending the hard, merciless streets of New York. There was little she
  hadn’t seen, touched, smelled, or waded through. Because people, to her mind,
  would always and could always find more inventive and despicable ways to kill
  their fellow man, she knew just what torments could be inflicted on the human
  body.  
  
  But bloody and br