Gifts

Gifts that Roarke has given to Eve by book:

Naked in Death

• Real coffee (delivered on February 14, 2058)
• Fixed her car heater (February 18, 2058)
• A second pound of real coffee (brought February 22)

Glory in Death

• Diamond pendant necklace (Giant’s Tear) from Australia
• Built replica of her office in his house
• Bath salts from Silas Three
• Roarke brought Eve scented [body] cream from Paris.

Immortal in Death

• Copper and gemstone necklace, wedding gift
  • Two drapes of twisted copper studded with colored stones (Leonardo recommended two necklaces, twenty-four and thirty inches in length [60.96-76.2 cm]; for the colored stones: rubies; citrine; onyx; carnelian; and, perhaps, tourmaline.)
• White petunia wedding bouquet
• Gold wedding ring (an ornately etched gold band) inscribed with an old Celtic design for protection (pretty etching in the slim gold ring).
  • It was a very specific and powerful design, to give the wearer protection from harm. Roarke said it “is a very small and very personal shield... I need you, and I’ll use whatever comes to hand to keep you safe... Let’s just call it covering the bases.”
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Rapture in Death

• Preserved flower from wedding bouquet
  • It was a new process one of his companies had been working on; it preserved without changing the basic texture.

Holiday in Death

• A sable robe that Eve put on for the holo trip she and Roarke took to a Swiss chalet to see the Alps.
• A scarlet, cashmere robe: “soft as a cloud, warm as a hug” - Eve told Roarke it was pretty nice, and he said it suited her as he belted a black robe in the same material.

Midnight in Death, Silent Night Anthology

• Deerskin gloves, Christmas gift
• A day Eve could fill with whatever she liked. Roarke would take her wherever she wanted to go, and they would do whatever she wanted to do. Off-planet or on. In reality or through the holo-room. Any time, any place, and the world was hers for the asking, Christmas gift.
• Handmade Italian leather gloves with mink lining, Christmas gift

Conspiracy in Death

• Bronze-colored cashmere coat, Christmas gift that Eve refused to wear to work: “No way in hell was she going to get blood and assorted body fluids all over that fabulous bronze-colored cashmere.” She remembered just how warm and soft the coat was, and wore it into Central when she met with Nadine for a one-on-one about the Petrinsky and Spindler missing organs cases because “it wasn’t like she was going to a murder scene, so it seemed petty not to give in, just this once.” She told Nadine, “I don’t wear it on duty, which I’m officially not on today. It’d get wrecked in a heartbeat.” Naturally, it was trashed on her way home when a droid tried to kill her to warn her off the investigation. When she and Roarke went out to mail a data disc to Feeney, he told her to wear her coat, which she reminded him was trash. He told her she had another and “It’s too cold for your jacket.” She asked him if he had some droids in a room somewhere manufacturing the coats. “In a manner of speaking. Gloves in the pockets.”
• Stuffed cat with Galahad’s eyes

Witness in Death

• Jumbo chocolate candy bar

Reunion in Death

• Sea queen’s earrings, anniversary gift: Earrings that sparkled up at Eve, deep and rich multicolored hunks of gems in hammered silver. They once belonged to Gráinne Ní Mháille, a chieftain at a time when women were not known to be in charge of tribes. She was sometimes called the Sea Queen, as she was a great sailing captain. She lived during the sixteenth century, a violent age in a country that had seen more than its fair share of violence. She was known for her courage. In her life she had triumph and tragedy, but she never faltered. On the west island where she was fostered the castle she built still stow on the cliff - strategically. There at sea or at one of the several strongholds she acquired, she held her own against all comers. She stood for her beliefs and defended her people. Eve summed it up as: “she kicked ass.”
• St. Jude’s medal, anniversary gift: a silver medallion, an oval with the figure of a man carved in it, St. Jude, the patron saint of police, also the patron saint of lost causes.

Purity in Death

• Black leather boots that “mysteriously” appeared in Eve’s closet.

Divided in Death

• Ruby arm cuff/bracelet with a pattern of minute diamond shapes etched into the gold to give it sparkle. In the center was a ruby as big as Eve’s thumb and smooth to the touch. It belonged to an Italian princess in the sixteenth century.

Origin in Death

• Long, “lieutenant-size” black leather jacket - it hit her about an inch above the ankles, carried deep pockets, and was smooth as butter. It was deliberately masculine, with no frills or feminine touches and a number of inside pockets “if someone needed to secret a weapon of some sort.”

Memory in Death

• Long cashmere robe in forest green - Christmas gift
• Magnifying glass with a silver handle - Christmas gift
• Diamond earrings (from the heist in Remember When) - Christmas gift. The earrings were diamond drops - three perfect round stones in graduated sizes that dropped from a cluster of more diamonds that formed the petals of a brilliant flower. Roarke told Eve, “Without you, Chad Dix wouldn’t be celebrating Christmas right now.”

Haunted in Death

• A necklace worn by Bobbie Bray at the Grammy Awards. John Massey told Roarke, “Charming, isn’t it? All those little beads are hand-strung. I can’t substantiate that Bobbie made it herself, though that’s the story. But it was worn by her to the Grammy Awards, then given by her to one of her entourage.” “Roarke held up the multistrand necklace. The beads were of various sizes, shapes, colors, but strung in a way that showed the craftsman had a clever eye. ‘I think Eve might like this. A memento of Bobbie, since she’s the one who’s finally bringing her some sense of justice.’”

Innocent in Death

• Two pairs of gloves, one to wear and the other to be stored in Eve’s glove-box as backup
• A bottle of perfume: the scent was custom-designed for Eve and was subtle and not frilly; the bottle was decorated with diamonds from the Forty-seventh Street heist in Remember When and rubies for Valentine’s Day

Promises in Death

• A robe: “short and silky, the color of black cherries.”
• DLE Urban, early anniversary gift
• Roarke purchased the Mini Waterfall for Eve (as well as a half dozen support tanks) from Adrian at Secrets

Fantasy in Death

• A robe: “short, soft, and boldly red.”

Indulgence in Death

• A wrist unit with a nano-com, full communication capability, navigation, full data capabilities, waterproof, shatterproof, voice-command capabilities, gave ambient temperature and it told time.
• A second wrist unit loaded with diamonds. Both were anniversary gifts.

Celebrity in Death

• Roarke gave Eve her now infamous “Magic Coat”:

When she pulled the jacket out of the box, he saw the deep, burnished bronze suited her just as well as he’d hoped. It would hit her mid-thigh, and fall very straight. The deep slash pockets -- reinforced -- would hold everything she needed to carry. The buttons on the front and on the decorative belt in the back, were in the shape of her badge.
She saw the label. “Leonardo did it, so it’s going to fit -- ha, ha -- like it was made for me. Look at the buttons!”
Yes, he thought, it fit her perfectly, suited her perfectly -- the color, the cut, the subtle embellishments.
When she turned toward him, the hem swirled around her thighs. “It feels great, too. No pull in the shoulders because of my weapon harness.” She slid a hand inside, drew her weapon smoothly, and smoothly replaced it. “It doesn’t get in the way.”
“There’s a knife sheath worked into the lining -- right side as you prefer the cross-draw, and use our right hand for your main weapon.”
“No shit.” She opened the jacket, checked. Mimed by crossing her arms, and drawing both gun and imaginary knife simultaneously. “Handy. Pretty damn handy. What’s with the lining? It feels sort of dense. It’s not heavy, but it doesn’t feel like coat lining.”
“Something we’ve been working on in R&D for a while.” He crossed to her, ran his fingers over the lining himself. “It’s body armor.”
“Get out.” Her forehead creased as she examined it more closely. “It’s too thin and light. Plus it moves.”
“Trust me, it’s been thoroughly tested. Leonardo was able to take the material and fashion it into the coat. It will block a stun on full, though you’ll feel the impact. It’ll protect from a blaster, though the leather would suffer. And it will block a blade -- though, again, pity about the leather.”
“How long a while?”
He smiled a little. “Oh, I’d say about two and a half years. Since I fell for a cop.”

• Peabody called it “ultra-squared” and said when Eve was walking, “it just swished. The belt detail in the back. It highlights your butt.” She clarified, “No, no, in a good way, not in a skanky way.” After Eve told Peabody about the body armor, she said, “The jacket’s like the car. It’s an ordinary thing -- well, special, but for a jacket, right? And the car, it’s ordinary, it even looks it. But both of them have the special inside. Cop special especially, you know? He so gets you. That’s even better than a just-because present.”
• Kira Robbins called it “a fabulous coat - Italian leather, slightly masculine cut, which only makes it more female on [Eve]. And powerful.”

Calculated in Death

• Roarke gave Eve a thigh holster for her clutch piece to wear under Leonardo’s dress for the premiere of The Icove Agenda vid, calling it an early Christmas present. She stripped off her pants to try it on, and he said, “Who knew I’d be giving myself a gift as well? That’s quite a look, Lieutenant.”

Festive in Death

• For Christmas, Roarke gave her a comb he bought at Ursa’s Fine Jewelry: from its jewel-encrusted peak fell a rich medley of diamonds and rubies, which he assured her Trina will know how to work into her hair. Eve told him he always figured out other ways to hang shiny things on her, and enjoyed watching the way the stones danced. It was an early twentieth century wedding gift from groom to bride, but a few generations later the fortune was squandered and this was sold off in an estate sale. Mr. Ursa had it in his vault for a couple of years, waiting for the right person, which Eve was, and complemented her holiday dress perfectly.
• Lessons from Master Wu [sic] and the new dojo
• A framed picture of Eve and Roarke at the preview [sic] (premiere) of The Icove Agenda where they stood smiling at each other, his torn knuckles on her bruised cheek. She, having just given the same picture to Roarke in a different frame, said “Look at us. We know each other” and he replied, “And love each other anyway.” She said, “All glammed up, and your knuckles bleeding [from punching Frye], my eye already going purple [from Candida Mobsley’s punch]. To think of all that bullshit prepping for the cameras. The Trina treatment. Clothes, hair, face--and I end up with a black eye anyway.”

Echoes in Death

• A red robe: “as soft as a cloud, as warm as a hug.”
• Roarke gave Eve a music box: “...so she took the box, lifted the wrapped lid and nearly blubbered again when she saw the little music box. When she looked at him, just looked at him with her exhausted eyes stunned and filled with emotion, Roarke knew he had chosen well. It was a young girl’s music box, not a fancy, important one. Just a sweet little white box with some gold swirls and the dancer twirling on one leg, arms curved overhead as the music played.” “The song it played was a twentieth century classic. ‘Tiny Dancer.’” Eve put it in her home office, on the shelf where she’d put the “silly stuffed Galahad he’d once given her. ‘It’ll remind me there’s room for the sweet. No matter what there’s room, and you need to take it.’ Gently she closed the lid. ‘And when I need the sweet, when you’re not right here for me to grab onto, I just have to open it.’”

Golden in Death

• A thin, soft cotton robe the color of apricots that made Eve feel like she was wrapped in a cloud.
• A magic topper in leather the color of fog or smoke with a sheen: it was lined and treated, simple, with pockets slit into the sides, deep and reinforced, hitting mid-thigh. The dark silver buttons - not shiny - bore the same Celtic design as her wedding ring. It was as soft as butter and light as air, but strong.

Eve allowed Peabody to pet it after Dr. Kent Abner’s memorial in Hudson River Park.
Peabody: “So smooth! Now you've got the black coat that says I’ll kick your ass and the three asses with you, and the jacket that says I can handle whatever I need to without breaking a sweat. Now this? This says I may be classy, but you don’t want to mess with me.”
Eve: “Is that what it says?”
Peabody: “Loud and clear. On somebody else, it would just say classy, but you put it on the cop, that’s the punch.”

Desperation in Death

• A robe the color of the peaches ripening in the orchard

Encore in Death

• A short white robe

Payback in Death

• A raspberry-colored robe Eve was stalking around the room wearing

Passions in Death

• A robe “the color of the sea surrounding Roarke’s private island”
• A pale lavender robe
• “Roarke enjoyed seeing her in a robe, which certainly explained why he couldn’t resist buying them for her. This one was as close as he dared come to pink, with its deep rose tone, and in silk that shimmer just a little.”

Gifts that Eve has given Roarke:

Holiday in Death

• A first edition copy of one of Yeats’ books of prose (essays), The Celtic Twilight.

Loyalty in Death

• Eve bought a pitiful, ragged bloom trying to be a rose from a man with a grimy face that was ancient and stupid and if the dirt in its folds were any indication, it hadn’t seen a bar of soap in this decade. He asked for five bucks, but she gave him four credit chips. She gave it to Roarke when she got home, after she’d apologized for the fight they had that morning. “I think it’s sort of traditional. Fight, flowers, make up.” The edges of the bud were blackened and curled from the cold. The color was somewhere between the yellow of a healing bruise and urine. “You fascinate me.” Roarke said it was delightful and they had makeup sex.

Reunion in Death

• A painting of the two of them under the arbor where they had exchanged their wedding vows - first anniversary gift.

Memory in Death

• “The Universe According to Roarke” - VR game made by Feeney - Christmas gift
• An old pocket watch that was engraved “Time stops” - Christmas gift
• Picture of Eve when she had just entered the Academy - in it Eve had long hair - Christmas gift

Innocent in Death

• Eve bought Roarke a book of poetry for Valentine’s Day -- “romancy stuff. I thought, ‘How schmaltzy is that,’ so it seemed like the thing. Then I left it in my desk at work.”

Indulgence in Death

• Eve had arranged a park built in Siobhan Brody’s memory and dedicated by Roarke for their second anniversary.

Festive in Death

• Eve purchased one of Roarke’s Christmas gifts at Ursa’s Fine Jewelry - Mr. Ursa made Roarke a small white petunia (their wedding flower) lapel pin from mother-of-pearl and platinum, and held to the lapel with a little super magnet, so no pins or holes.
• His own “magic coat”: Soft black leather, in classic style, and the buttons held the symbol of Celtic trinity knots. Knee-length, supple black leather and hidden interior pockets.
• A framed picture of Eve and Roarke at the preview [sic] (premiere) of The Icove Agenda where they stood smiling at each other, his torn knuckles on her bruised cheek. He said it would go straight onto his desk.

Payback in Death

• While visiting Roarke’s family, Eve gave him his anniversary gift: a painting done by Yancy of Eve and Roarke and all of the Ireland family on the farm including Roarke’s mother Siobhan, Summerset, and Galahad.

Gifts that Eve and/or Roarke have given to others by book:

Holiday in Death

• Eve bought a Heathen Neck Ornament for Mavis for Christmas at the Big Apple Sky Mall - it was a set of three chained ropes with clashing colored stones the size of Eve’s thumb, ridiculously flashy, edging toward tacky, and just screamed Mavis.
• Eve gave Mira customized perfume for Christmas: When Yvette at All Things Beautiful asked Eve to give her three of her strongest personality traits, Eve said “Intelligent. Compassionate. Thorough.” The perfume was packaged in a container of the customer’s choice, and “is one of a kind and, once selected, will never be made again.” Mira told Eve she wasn’t even sure that Eve knew her name (the bottle was engraved with “Charlotte”).
• Eve bought a copper ear chain for Leonardo for Christmas.

Midnight in Death

• Eve gave Peabody the undercover wardrobe that Leonardo had made for her during their last case. This was a Christmas gift and included:
  • A sweeping ankle duster of deep pine green with hidden pockets for her stunner and communicator, a tangle of chains in jewel hues (unclear of those were included), and toothpick-heeled shoes in gold
  • A peekaboo skinsuit - no details given
  • A short, snug skirt and stiletto-heeled boots, both the color of ripe raspberries
  • A shimmering sweep of blue silk.

Divided in Death

• Roarke bought a necklace for Sinead

Memory in Death

• Eve bought a scarf from Tiko for Dennis Mira at Christmas 2059
• Eve bought an antique teapot for Mira for Christmas 2059. It had tiny painted violets twining around it, and Mira declared it gorgeous, saying she loved violets.
• Eve and Roarke gave Peabody and McNab their trip to Scotland - private shuttle and ground transpo for Christmas.
• Eve gave Feeney coffee for Christmas: “She tossed a gift bag on his desk, and watched his eyes light up like Christmas morning.”
• Eve gave Galahad a pair of feline-sized antlers and a toy mouse stuffed with catnip, which she called “Zeus for cats.” While he rolled deliriously with his new toy, Eve stuck the antlers in place. “Okay, you look really stupid, so this is only for tonight. We humans have to get our kicks somewhere.”

Born in Death

• Eve gave Mavis a rocker system - it reclined, rocked, swayed, vibrated, and played music, with twenty default tunes and the ability to record and play or download others or just the sound of the mother or father’s voice. It was stain and water resistant and really soft and the gel cushions molded to you or you could program a preferred setting - manually or by voice recognition - controls were under both arm pads - for right- or left-hand use, and it flipped open with a finger. The Delux model, which was what Eve chose, had a new feature - a chair-side cradle that lifted out and up from the side so both mother and baby could take a little nap together. It got top ratings from Baby Style, Parenting, and Today’s Family magazines. The Mommy Channel had it as their top pick in 2059. When it was delivered to Roarke and Eve’s house for the baby shower, the canopied chair was draped in rainbows and decked in flowers. When Mavis saw it there, she burst into tears. Eve panicked, but Mavis assured her she abso loves it and Leonardo said they had baby carrots the night before and she cried for ten minutes. It was redelivered to Mavis’s apartment after the shower (no charge since it was so expensive), and described as “swirled with color” in Innocent in Death

Salvation in Death

• Roarke told Eve he was commissioning Peabody’s mother about making a tea set - “pot, cups, saucers, and so on” for Charles and Louise’s wedding present. “She’s an excellent and creative potter.”

Promises in Death

• Latecht boudoir ensemble - Moonlight Elegance for Louise Dimatto for her bridal shower gift from Secrets.

Thankless in Death

• Eve gave Peabody La Femme lip dye in Popping Pink from True Essence. It cost $62 and was a thank you for Peabody finding the store where Jerald Reinhold bought a bunch of products for his new look. Peabody was ecstatic about the gift.

Festive in Death

• Eve had Astrid and Ben choose Christmas gifts for five friends:
  1. A handbag for Mira; Eve described her as “elegant, classy, not rigid or stuffy, but classy,” saying “she mostly goes for soft colors, but can surprise you. Everything always goes together like she worked it out on a program first. Professional, smart. Kind.” Astrid and Ben came back with a long, narrow, hand-painted bag - smooth, a little silky, with a pastel garden of flowers and a jeweled butterfly as a clasp, telling her “Since they’re hand-painted, they’re one of a kind.” Eve agreed, thinking of Mira, “I guess she is, too. I think she’d go for it.” Tiko added a nice silk scarf the same color pink as one of the flowers to fluff up inside the purse and add class.
  2. Mother-daughter bags for Mavis and Bella; Eve described Mavis as “I’ve got one who’s out there. Nothing’s too much, too wild, too anything. Color, bright, changeable, bouncy. Oh, and she’s got a kid. A girl kid, not quite a year old.” Astrid picked out mother-daughter bags that converted from shoulder bags to handbags to backpacks, with sparkly unicorns dancing over them. Tiko added a scarf for Mavis and a pink unicorn baby girl cap for Bella. Astrid also added a talking, dancing pink unicorn with a silver horn to go in Bella’s unicorn bag.
  3. A handbag for Louise: “it borrowed its shape from the old-fashioned doctor’s bag, changed it up with the color of smoky lavender, the silver buckles. The inestimable Tiko had polished it off with one of his scarves - deep purple, metallic silver, tied artistically on the handles.”
  4. A bag for Reo, no details given, but she patted the bag and told Eve, “I love this.”
  5. A handbag for Nadine: described in Obsession in Death as a purse the size of a cargo freighter in zebra stripes.
• A gift bag for Trina, containing candles with a fragrance for each season
• Roarke had airboots custom made for McNab with his tartan for Christmas - a bold and rather attractive red-and-green plaid
• Eve gave Peabody her pink magic coat for Christmas:

Peabody: “Oh!” She pulled out the gift, stared at it, eyes and mouth wide. “It’s a magic coat. It’s my own magic coat. It’s pink! It’s a pink magic coat. Holy shit! Holy pink magic shit, Dallas.”
Eve: “The pink was Roarke’s doing. You can’t hang that on me. I said brown.”
Peabody: “I have to sit down. No, I have to try it on, then I have to sit down. Holy shit, you got me a pink magic coat.”
Eve: “Don’t blubber! Why is there so much blubbering today?”
Peabody: “Thank God I used all waterproof, sweatproof, smudgeproof face enhancers, because I’m going to blubber. Dallas, wow. Just wow, it’s leather. It’s pink leather.”
Eve: “The pink’s not on me. Ever.”
Peabody: “Holy, holy, holy shit. I can’t stop saying it... Oh my God, it’s beyond. Just beyond. It feels like leather. It is leather. It has pockets and pretty buttons. And it’s magic, and it’s pink.

Devoted in Death

• Eve gave Feeney a magic coat, which he received with the sentiment, “Well, fuck me sideways.” It was shit-brown leather, hitting him about mid-thigh, and roomy, simple, with captain’s bars as buttons. Eve assured him it would deflect a full stun (see Calculated), though she could not personally attest to its ability to repel sharps.

Apprentice in Death

• Eve and Roarke gave Bella a dollhouse for her first birthday. It came in an enormous box of glittery pink and silver, with a long pink ribbon that Bella (with Mavis’s help) pulled. The box collapsed outward to reveal a pink and white castle with turrets and drawbridges, arched windows and fussy balconies.

Encore in Death

• Roarke Industries donated Thin Shield body armor linings to the entire NYPSD, beginning with Eve’s Homicide division, for an early anniversary gift.

Passions in Death

• A lamp for Peabody and a garden sculpture for Mavis, both from Tyler Vance’s metalworks studio:
  • Eliza Lane originally commissioned the garden sculpture for Sylvie Bowen’s birthday in Encore in Death, with fairies and flowers, in order to steal cyanide from Vance’s studio to poison her husband, Brant Fitzhugh. Peabody saw the lamp when she and Eve went to the studio to interview Vance, and thought it looked organic, like it grew in place. It was a pole lamp made up of metal leaves and vines and some birds.
  • After Lane was arrested for multiple murders, Eve told Roarke about the lamp and sculpture (in Payback in Death), saying “Peabody went goofy over this lamp he had. Since I got a look at her part of the house, yeah, I can see it. Still, you’re more up on what she’s doing and where and all that.” She asked Roarke if she had Vance send Roarke a picture of it or one like it, if he could see if it would work in the new place, and he happily agreed. She further suggested them purchasing the garden sculpture he was working on for Eliza as a gift for Sylvie - this would be a housewarming gift for Mavis since “Peabody said Mavis would go goofy over [it].”
  • They decided to purchase them both as housewarming gifts and have them delivered the week after Passions in Death, the last week of August, 2061, since most of the remodeling had been completed. “That way, Peabody can find the place she wants for the lamp, and we can set up the sculpture where Mavis wants it.”
• The same rocker system Eve bought for Mavis and Bella in Born in Death, but with a custom fabric cover designed by Leonardo to match the magical forest nursery theme for Number Two.

Gifts that other characters have given to Eve and/or Roarke by book:

Holiday in Death

• Mavis and Leonardo gave Eve and Roarke a box of carved and polished wood, its brass hinges gleaming. Leonardo told them, “The wood’s for friendship, the metal for love.” Eve opened the lid to reveal the two silk-lined compartments within. “One part is for your memories, the other for your wishes.” Eve kissed Roarke and told him that was the first memory for their box.

Midnight in Death

• Peabody gave Eve a silver sheriff’s star for Christmas.

Loyalty in Death

• Zeke Peabody gave Eve a slim vase of red, hothouse roses to thank her for giving his sister the time off to spend with him. Peabody told Eve, “He does stuff like that all the time. He wanted to thank you for yesterday. I told him you weren’t the type for flowers, but he thinks everyone is.”
• Zeke later gave Eve a thumb-sized wood carving of a sleeping cat; it was rough and simple and cleverly done.

Betrayal in Death

• Mick Connelly left Roarke with a gift for Eve: a small vial containing soil dug from the Hill of Tara, “that place of Irish kings long dead. Knowing Mick, it likely came out of our own garden, but it’s the thought, after all. It’s for luck, he said, as you were the most regal of cops he’d ever had the pleasure of meeting.”

Reunion in Death

• Sam and Phoebe Peabody gave Eve and Roarke a pair of candlestick that she and Sam made together. They were slender and fashioned from glossy stone in greens and purples that melted together. They were made from fluorite, “For cleansing the aura, peacefulness of mind, clarity of thought.”
• The next day, Phoebe spoke to Eve alone and gave her another gift: “She’s the goddess. Carved in alabaster. She represents the strength, courage, the wisdom, the compassion that is uniquely female...The goddess belonged to Phoebe’s great-great grandmother and has been passed down from female to female until it passed to [Phoebe]...” Eve said she couldn’t accept that gift as it should remain in Phoebe’s family. Phoebe told Eve that she was keeping it in the family.

Portrait in Death

• Sinead Lannigan gave Roarke Siobhan’s necklace: “a thin chain and the rectangle of silver that dangled from it.” It had her name in Ogham script.

Imitation in Death

• A vase of flowers from Marlene Cox, via her mother, to Eve at Central. “Instead of embarrassing her as they might have done, they pleased her.”

Memory in Death

• Charlotte Mira gave Eve a sun catcher for Christmas. It was round, with open scrollwork and small glittering stones. As it was on a chain, Eve first thought it was a necklace, though the disk was wider than her palm. The scrollwork had a Celtic pattern, like her wedding ring, which Mira’s daughter told her was for protection. Mira said that and the stones were to promote peace of mind. It had been blessed by her daughter.
• Peabody and McNab gave Eve a handknit sweater for Christmas - McNab sprang for the material, they worked on the colors together, and Peabody knitted it. It was soft and warm and in shades of heathery blue. They also gave Roarke a sweater, but no details were given.

Divided in Death

• Peabody gave Eve a little plastic palm tree with a little plastic naked man lounging under it. He held a tiny bowl-shaped glass filled with shimmering green liquid that Eve had no doubt was alcoholic, based on the goofy grin on his face. Peabody brought it back from the trip she and McNab took to Jamaica to investigate Carter Bissel. She called it kitschy and amusing.

Strangers in Death

• Abigail Johnson baked Eve a lemon meringue pie to thank her for arranging the thousand dollar reward, saying that Eve could have brushed Tiko off or called Child Services or any number of things. “The meringue looked frothy as a snowcap, with golden beads scattered over its peaks and planes.” Eve called it edible art.

Salvation in Death

• Ariel Greenfeld baked a cake for Eve, spending weeks on the design to create a scale model reproduction.
  • It was an enormous cake that was more like art. It was an edible New York spread out, with its streets, its buildings, its rivers and parks, the tunnels, the bridges. Rapid Cabs, maxibuses, jet-bikes, scooters, delivery vans, and other vehicles crammed those streets. People jammed sidewalks and glides. Shop windows held tiny, glittery displays, and glide-cart vendors served soy dogs and veggie hash.
  • There was an illegals deal going down off Jane Street and a guy getting mugged in Central Park. An image of Eve stood on a slim tower, over the city. She wore her long, black coat, caught in mid-billow and boots that were scuffed at the toe. In one hand she held her badge—right down to her rank and badge number, and in the other her weapon. Roarke decided to keep the figure of Eve from the cake.

Promises in Death

• Morris gave Eve a glass butterfly with jeweled wings that had belonged to Amaryllis Coltraine - it was the first thing she bought when she moved to New York.

Fantasy in Death

• Peabody and McNab gave Eve a toy derringer - “like cardsharps and saloon girls carry in western vids. It’s like a clutch piece.” It spouted sayings when you cocked and shot it, including:
  • Put those hands where I can see them, cowboy.
  • Next one goes lower, and you won’t be poking a woman with that stick of yours for the rest of your miserable life.
  • You’d better hightail it before that tail’s sporting another hole.
  • It’s small, but it’s mean, just like me.

Treachery in Death

• Detective Carmichael gave Eve a cookie shaped like a dog that said Top Dog as a little token for taking Garnet down a peg. Her sister, who worked in a bakery, made it. When Eve asked Carmichael why she didn’t like Garnet, she said “I had a case cross with one of his awhile back. He’s an asshole. He struts. I don’t like strutters. Likes pushing his weight around and acting like he’s doing you some big favor for sharing info when you’re working angles on the same case. Doesn’t like getting his pretty suits dirty either. Roasted a rook uniform in front of God and everyone for asking a question, and when I objected he told me to stop being a little girl. So, in the spirit of what goes around, a token for the Top Dog for busting his balls now.” Eve bit the dog’s head off and declared: “Tasty.” As she chewed the dog, Peabody sent her a puppy-dog look and Eve gave her a foreleg.

Thankless in Death

• Sinead knitted a soft sweater for Eve in “the same vivid blue as Roarke’s eyes.”
• Nixie Swisher gave Eve a framed hand-drawn picture of her as a kick-ass cop: “She stood, eyes hard, weapon drawn, coat billowing. A little reminiscent, she thought, of an illustration in one of Roarke’s classic graphic novels - and just as frosty.” Nixie said she drew it, but Richard helped. It was an assignment from her therapist, to make a picture of the person she was most thankful for that Thanksgiving. “I thought about it a lot. Because I’m thankful for Elizabeth and Richard and Kevin, but I wouldn’t have them to be thankful for except for you. I wrote an essay on the back. It’s part of the assignment, and the present.” Eve told her, “I’m going to put it in my office, at Central. And it’ll remind me to tell the truth and keep promises.”

The person I’m most thankful for this Thanksgiving is Lieutenant Eve Dallas. She kept me safe when I was scared and I was sad. She took me to her house with Roarke and Summerset and Galahad so nobody could hurt me, not even the bad people who killed my family and my friend.

She told me the truth. She promised me she would find the bad people and make sure they were punished. And Roarke said she would never stop until she did that. He told me the truth, too.

She helped me find Richard and Elizabeth and Kevin. They’re not my mother, my father, and my brother. But they’re my family now, and I know it’s okay to love them. It doesn’t mean I don’t love my mom and dad and my brother.

Dallas didn’t treat me like a baby. She told me I was a survivor, and that’s important. She worked hard, and she even got hurt, but she found the bad people, and she made sure they got punished.

She told me the truth. She kept her promise. So she is the person I'm most thankful for this Thanksgiving.

Nixie Swisher.

Concealed in Death

• Mr. Mira gave Eve a pair of wooly red gloves and a bright blue ski cap with a sparkling white snowflake on the front, saying “the kids are always leaving gloves and hats and scarves and socks and everything else around here. We have a box full of them.” Roarke called the cap “fetching.”

Festive in Death

• Feeney gave Eve small reproductions of the medals she and Roarke had been awarded the previous month, floating inside clear glass. Etched beneath each were their names, the award, and the date presented. He told her, “I figured you could put it somewhere you could take a look at it when the job gets heavy. Maybe not here [Eve’s office at Central]. It’s a little like bragging if you put it here.” Eve says, “Yeah. It should be at home. It’s Roarke’s, too.” Feeney told her, “The highest honor given a cop. The highest honor given a civilian. I was real proud of you both.” Roarke placed it on a table in the sitting area of their bedroom. “I’ve a medal that sits beside yours, floating in glass, given me by a man who stands as your father. A man I respect more than most. I have that as well because you gave me other possibilities, opened other worlds to me that were once barred and locked.”
• Feeney also told Eve Mrs. Feeney made them a bowl in her pottery class: “It’s not bad - doesn’t even wobble. Much.” Roarke told Eve, “I find his wife’s pottery charming.” “Yeah, I know, since you actually find places for it instead of accidentally breaking it or hiding it in some dark closet.” Roarke had one of Mrs. Feeney’s wobbly bowls in his home office space: “He’d put that here, too, [Eve] thought - like the painting [of their wedding day, the two of them under the blooming arbor on that summer day - Eve’s first anniversary gift to Roarke] - in his space. Because he understood, he valued, connections, symbols of family - far better than she.”

Obsession in Death

• Reference to a scarf Peabody made Eve for Christmas. Eve was “grateful Peabody had gone with muted colors.”

Leverage in Death

• Bella gave Eve a pink unicorn hair clip and a finger painting that “rivaled one of Jenkinson’s most eye-burning ties for impact.” “Blobs of color, splotches of more, covered it along with finger swirls and prints, dots, and shaky lines.” Bella helpfully pointed out Das, Ork, Somshit, and Gah-ad, along with their house (“Das Ork how-sss. Like cas-sil”). At Summerset’s suggestion, Eve hung it in her home office kitchen, on the friggie: “It’s a long tradition in many families to display a child’s artwork on the friggie. The kitchen’s often considered the hub or heart of the house. Though that might not be the case for you, I would think your office kitchen would serve... The unrestricted love of a child is a precious gift.” Roarke said, “A bold use of color and texture. Perhaps she’s a budding student of the Pollock school.” Eve told Roarke, “It’s not exactly the heart of the house,” but he assured her, “this house has many hearts.”

Gifts that other characters have given by book:

Visions in Death

• Peabody did a little early Christmas shopping, picking up several pairs of colorful socks at The Colossal Man or a similar shop for her brother and grandfather, both of whom had large feet.

Origin in Death

• McNab gave Peabody a four-leaf-clover pendant to celebrate the completion of her physical therapy and complete recovery from being injured in the line (by John Blue in Visions in Death). “He says it’s to keep me from being hurt again.” Eve suggested “Riot gear might work better, but relented when she remembered partnership and friendship, adding that it was pretty and nice of him.

Memory in Death

• Peabody’s grandmother wove a scarf of zigzagging reds and greens and sent it to her for Christmas. It was “wrapped about six times around her neck.”
• Peabody made McNab a “really mag jacket. Worked on that up at Mavis’s, so he wouldn’t catch on. Been awhile since I did any serious weaving.”

Born in Death

• Peabody made Mavis “this sweet baby blanket while I was in the weaving mode over the holidays. It’s all rainbow colors. I’m doing these cute little booties and a hat, too.” They were done in a rainbow of pastels and Mira told Eve, “She’s just given Mavis an heirloom.”

Innocent in Death

• Peabody bought a talking picture frame for McNab for Valentine’s Day “with their names inscribed on it. I put this shot of the two of us his father took at Christmas? He can keep it in his cube in EDD.”

Strangers in Death

• Possibly red earmuffs from Mrs. Feeney to Feeney:
  • When Eve insisted Feeney go home since he was sick, he told her, “I’m in bed, the wife’s on me like white on tofu, how she told me I shoulda worn the muffler, and how she didn’t give me those nice earmuffs for Christmas. Damn things make me look like I got a couple of red rats coming out of my ears.”
  • It makes more sense if Mrs. Feeney told him “didn’t she give me those nice earmuffs for Christmas?”

Celebrity in Death

• McNab gave Peabody “the cutest pair of earrings -- like chains of hearts -- just because. You know a guy’s stuck on you if he springs for just-because jewelry of any kind.” Eve took that to mean Roarke was stuck on her like a man in quicksand, by that measure.

Festive in Death

• Peabody bought McNab a virulent orange hooded sweatshirt with an animated hula dancer plastered over the front. Peabody borrowed fifty bucks from Eve to make the purchase, and also saw one with a gyrating Elvis in a Santa hat, but decided to go with the hula girl.

Obsession in Death

• Mira’s Christmas present from her daughter and son-in-law was a fancy lamp over an array of flowering plants spilling from stone-gray pots along Mira’s windowsill, adding extra light to the winter sun in her office. Gillian made the pots and started the plants from seedlings, and her husband made the light. “They’re a clever pair.”
• McNab gave Peabody hard-candy-pink boots that hit about mid-thigh with a thick fluff of snow-white furry stuff that glittered. The inch-wide soles were lime green. Peabody called them her “rain, snow, sleet, cozy toes boots.” They were a Christmas gift, and the soles were Sure Grip, so they would handle the ice.

Wonderment in Death

• Callendar was wearing a hat with snowmen dancing around the brim and a scarf of purple, yellow, and green in lightning bolt stripes, both courtesy of Peabody’s talent with yarn.

Dark in Death

• Mira was wearing a fuzzy white beret that Peabody gave her; She told Peabody, “It’s a new favorite. You do such pretty work.”

Passions in Death

• Peabody was planning to build a toy chest for Number Two and paint it with magic trees and some birds, maybe a dragon, to match the nursery theme. “Maybe a chest with doors on the front that open out. Or... make it like a treasure chest, and do a lift-out shelf.”
• Sam and Phoebe Peabody made a partner’s desk and blown-glass ceiling light for Peabody and McNab and for Mavis and Leonardo, “a charming little child’s picnic table with benches, and a lovely family sculpture -- Mavis holding an infant, Leonardo holding Bella. A thank-you for opening their family to Peabody and McNab.” They were to be on their way by the end of the week (August 19, 2061).