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2024[]

2028[]

  • Eve is Born - Eve is born to parents Richard Troy and Stella (no last name given as of 1/2020).

2036[]

  • 8-year-old Eve is found in an alley in Dallas, Texas - She's bloody with a broken arm and does not know who she is or how she got there. A social worker names her Eve Dallas and puts her into the foster care system. Likely May of 2036 (see Eve Dallas for more details).

2046[]

  • 18-year-old Eve arrives in New York to train to become an officer in the NYPSD

2048[]

  • Eve becomes an officer in the NYPSD
  • Has her first run in with Isaac McQueen (New York to Dallas). She fights with him and finds his girls locked up in the room. Lt. Ryan Feeney meets her during the arrest of McQueen and decides to have her transferred to Homicide.

2050[]

2051[]

  • Eve makes Detective, Second Grade - Has her first run-in with The Groom[3]

2058[]

February 2058[]

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May 2058[17][]

May 4, 2058[]

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May 12 , 2058[]

  • Eve and Roarke make up. This is also the first time Eve tells Roarke she loves him.[21]

May 31, 2058[]

June 2058[]

June 2, 2058[]

June 3, 2058[]

  • It was probably (see Note below) June 3, 2058 when Roarke said to Eve, “I want you to marry me.” When Eve asked him “what,” he said again, “I want you to marry me.”[24]

June 27, 2058 – Saturday[]

June 29, 2058 – Monday[]

  • Roarke tells Eve about torturing and murdering the men who raped, tortured, and murdered Marlena.[26]

June 30, 2058 – Tuesday[]

July 2058[]

July 1, 2058 – Wednesday[]

July 11, 2058 – Saturday[]

  • Eve and Roarke's wedding day (based on the timeline and dates given in Immortal in Death).[30][31]

August 2058[]

October 2058[]

November 2058[]

December 2058[]

2059[]

January 2059[]

February 2059[]

  • February: Loyalty in Death
    • Peabody's younger brother Zeke is introduced
    • Peabody and McNab's first kiss!
    • The Cassandra Group sends Eve a series of disc with their plans, Eve discovers that they are Roarke's properties. The Cassandra Group is a branch of the Apollo Group who took responsibility for blowing up the Pentagon.
    • Eve and Roarke stop them from blowing up the Statue of Liberty.

March 2059[]

April 2059[]

May 2059[]

June 2059[]

  • June 4-8: Seduction in Death
  • Two-week vacation: one week in Mexico and one week on a private island
  • Charles Monroe and Louise Dimatto meet

July 2059[]

August 2059[]

  • August 8-12: Portrait in Death
    • Trueheart is abducted
    • Roarke meets his family in Ireland
    • Roarke learns he is one year younger than he thought

September 2059[]

  • September 2-12: Imitation in Death
    • Peabody and McNab decide to lease an apartment together
    • Peabody takes the detective's exam
    • Summerset goes on vacation and returns
    • Eve has a dream about her birth mother
  • September 19-22: Eve Dallas's story (Big Jack) in Remember When
  • September 21-24: Divided in Death
    • Roarke finds out HSO knew of Eve's abuse and chose not to act
  • September: Visions in Death
    • Peabody injured
    • Eve tells Peabody of her childhood abuse
    • Peabody and McNab move in together

October 2059[]

November 2059[]

December 2059[]

2060[]

January 2060[]

February 2060[]

March 2060[]

April 2060[]

May 2060[]

June 2060[]

July 2060[]

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October 2060[]

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2061[]

January 2061[]

February 2061[]

March 2061[]

April 2061[]

May 2061[]

June 2061[]

July 2061[]

  • End of July-early August Payback in Death[78]
    • Webster turns in his badge to move to Olympus to be with Darcia

August 2061[]

September 2061[]

Footnotes[]

  1. Naked in Death (ISBN 0-425-14829-7), p. 19; Portrait in Death (ISBN 0-425-18903-1), p. 153
  2. This date is approximate and comes from Reunion in Death. Eve makes a statement that Julianna Dunne was one of the cases she had worked right after she'd gotten her “gold shield” (which is most likely her Detective's badge), eight or nine years before the date Reunion takes place which is approximately Summer, 2059. So, we can reasonably assume that Eve must have made Detective in approximately 2050 (9 years prior).
  3. This date comes from Creation in Death (ISBN 978-0-399-15436-2), p. 17. After finding victim Sarifina York, she tells Roarke about her first run-in with “The Groom”: “Between February eleventh and February twenty-sixth, 2051, he [the groom] abducted, tortured, and killed four women...I was a detective. Just made second grade...”
  4. This date comes from Naked in Death, beginning of chapter two. Eve is reviewing the Gorham Complex elevator surveillance disk. The time stamp is: 2-12-2058. 06:00; Naked in Death (ISBN 0-425-14829-7), pp. 1, 18
  5. Naked in Death (ISBN 0-425-14829-7), pp. 3, 18
  6. Naked in Death (ISBN 0-425-14829-7), pp. 4-5, 18
  7. Naked in Death (ISBN 0-425-14829-7), pp. 18, 23
  8. Naked in Death (ISBN 0-425-14829-7), pp. 18, 30
  9. Naked in Death (ISBN 0-425-14829-7), pp. 18, 36
  10. Naked in Death (ISBN 0-425-14829-7), pp. 37, 40
  11. Naked in Death (ISBN 0-425-14829-7), pp. 18, 50
  12. Naked in Death (ISBN 0-425-14829-7), pp. 18, 68
  13. Naked in Death (ISBN 0-425-14829-7), pp. 18, 87-88
  14. Naked in Death (ISBN 0-425-14829-7), pp. 18, 131
  15. Naked in Death (ISBN 0-425-14829-7), pp. 18, 177
  16. Naked in Death (ISBN 0-425-14829-7), pp. 18, 199
  17. This date comes from Glory in Death Hardcover, Pg. 5. Eve checks Towers' computer and asks it to: “List appointments for Cicely Towers, May two.”
  18. Note: The days in Glory in Death do not run from day to day to day. A day may be skipped with no mention of date given or that action has moved several days forward from one event to the next. The dates for Glory in Death are given from May 3-June 3, 2058 - one may be fairly confident those dates are accurate. The citations, and numerous book pages provided are an effort to fix times of events as accurately as possible. Glory in Death (ISBN 0-425-15098-4), pp. 6, 108, 138, 141-143, 154-155, 157, 219
  19. Glory in Death (ISBN 0-425-15098-4), p. 37
  20. Glory in Death (ISBN 0-425-15098-4), pp. 63-66
  21. Glory in Death (ISBN 0-425-15098-4), pp. 118, 122-123
  22. Glory in Death (ISBN 0-425-15098-4), pp. 168, 174
  23. Glory in Death (ISBN 0-425-15098-4), p. 236
  24. Glory in Death (ISBN 0-425-15098-4), p. 296
  25. Immortal in Death (ISBN 0-425-15378-9), pp. 8, 209, 247
  26. Immortal in Death (ISBN 0-425-15378-9), pp. 89-92, 209, 247
  27. Immortal in Death (ISBN 0-425-15378-9), pp. 112, 209, 247
  28. Immortal in Death (ISBN 0-425-15378-9), pp. 143-144, 209, 247
  29. Immortal in Death (ISBN 0-425-15378-9), pp. 151, 209, 247
  30. Immortal in Death (ISBN 0-425-15378-9), pp. 209, 247, 294-296
  31. Note (this information is based on a future calendar): We've had a couple of members of the forum work on figuring out the date of Eve and Roarke's wedding, and the most widely accepted theory is this from Arwen: “I read the first chapter of Rapture. In it, Eve looks into the first murder on August 1st. A couple of pages prior to that Roarke says that they have 48 hours until they leave to go back home. Eve also says that they have been on the Honeymoon for '2 1/2 weeks' or almost 3 weeks at different points. Allowing 1 or 2 days for travel back, that would put Eve back in the office on Monday 8/5. (I did check a calendar.) All of this has lead me to decide that they probably got married on 7/13 or 7/14. I checked a calendar and the 13th is a Saturday. I am still trying to determine if they got married on Saturday or Sunday.”
  32. Rapture in Death (ISBN 0-425-15518-8), p. 14
  33. Rapture in Death (ISBN 0-425-15518-8), pp. 67, 77, 96
  34. Vengeance in Death (ISBN 0-425-16039-4), p. 41
  35. Vengeance in Death (ISBN 0-425-16039-4), pp. 120-121
  36. This date comes from Vengeance in Death p. 78. When Eve questions Summerset, she logs the official time as: “November seventeen, twenty fifty-eight, time is oh eight hundred point three hours.”
  37. Page 4 of Conspiracy in Death states that “Eve's run-in with Bowers happens in January.”
  38. Conspiracy in Death (ISBN 0-425-16813-1), p. 16
  39. Conspiracy in Death (ISBN 0-425-16813-1), p. 99
  40. “Jesus, Jesus, why is there February?” Eve demanded. “February should be eliminated altogether for the good of mankind.” Innocent in Death, p. 36
  41. “The wind kicked at her long black coat, one she'd need as this first day of March was proving as brutal as the rest of 2060 had been. Creation in Death, p. 8
  42. Strangers in Death, p. 2
  43. “The May sunshine beamed through the exit.” Salvation in Death, p. 5
  44. “He skimmed a finger down her arm, where a knife had slashed only days before.” Ritual in Death, p. 8
  45. “...and enjoy sitting at a sidewalk table on a balmy May evening in the city...,” Promises in Death, p. 208
  46. “She remembered they’d nearly died together a few weeks before...” (Indulgence in Death, Chapter 1) Fantasy in Death took place the last week of June, 2060.
  47. This story begins the day after the previous novel (Indulgence in Death) ends. Eve notes that she has been interviewing the man who had “tried to kill her less than twenty-four hours before.” Possession in Death, Chapter 1
  48. Treachery in Death, (ISBN 978-0-399-15703-5), pp. 7, 26, 100
  49. New York to Dallas, p. 1
  50. Chaos in Death p. 7
  51. Chaos in Death, Chapter 9
  52. Celebrity in Death, Chapter 11: “It's barely October” (and also, “Halloween's weeks off yet”)
  53. Delusion in Death, Chapter 1
  54. Calculated in Death, Chapter 1: “A killer wind hurled bitter November air, toothy little knives to gnaw at the bones.” Later in Chapter 1: Eve wonders “What were you doing, Marta [Dickenson], blocks from work, from home on a frigid November night?” Chapter 6: Eve mentions that “November's cold and blowing winds stripped the last of the leaves from the trees rising over the wide green lawn.”
  55. Day 4 (the final day) of the investigation is Thanksgiving Day, which in 2060 will fall on November 25.
  56. The story takes place after Thankless in Death (November 22-25, 2060), but exact dates are not specified.
  57. Concealed in Death, Chapter 1
  58. The calendar is incorrect in Festive in Death: actual Christmas Day 2060 is a Saturday but the “in Death” Christmas Day is a Tuesday. For complete details, see the Festive in Death#YANNI.
  59. The first murder is December 27, 2060, pegged by this quotation... [Dallas:] “December twenty-seventh, between five and seven in the evening. Where were you?” [Witness:] “When was that?” “Two days ago,” Peabody said helpfully. “Two days after Christmas.” Obsession in Death (ISBN 978-0-425-27889-5), p. 103.
  60. Devoted in Death, Chapter 1
  61. Obsession in Death (ISBN 978-0-425-27889-5), p. 55-56
  62. Devoted in Death, Chapter 1
  63. “The frigid January wind whistled around Darlene's ears.” (Chapter 1); When Eve sees Roarke sitting on the steps in front of Henry Boyle's townhouse, she wonders “how many people claim to have a spouse, a partner, a lover sitting out on a cold, windy January night waiting for them.” (Chapter 4)
  64. Brotherhood in Death, Chapter 1
  65. Apprentice in Death (ISBN 9781101987995), p. 1
  66. Echoes in Death, Chapter 1
  67. Echoes in Death, Chapter 1: “Sane people wanted to stay home in warm, comfortable clothes when February reared its ugly frozen head.” Chapter 1: “But come Monday, she’d be back in the saddle, wearing boots and sensible clothes” – the first Monday in February 2061 is February 7, so the charity ball is the night of Saturday, February 5, and the story starts early Sunday morning. Chapter 4: “Right. Wait. It’s Sunday.”
  68. Secrets in Death, Chapter 1: Eve's thoughts are nearly as bitter as the February wind. Chapter 5: Roarke tells Eve Summerset bought New Zealand rather than New York apples because it's February, and therefore summer in the Southern Hemisphere, so he was able to purchase organic, naturally grown ones. Chapter 7: Eve wonders why stores didn't charge less for coats in October instead of waiting for February to slash the cost by 60%. Chapter 18: Eve stepped out into the sharp jaws of February, wondering again why they haven't eliminated the month (“there had to be a way, they must have the technology”). Since Echoes ends February 9, Secrets starts around mid-February.
  69. Dark in Death, Chapter 1: Eve had come home on time, “out of the claw swipe of late February winds.”
  70. Leverage in Death, Chapter 1: Paul Rogan muses that “it all ended today, as February dribbled into March 2061” and “Eve held up her badge, smiled with all the warmth of the early March wind.”
  71. Connections in Death, Chapter 1: “almost-spring of 2061”; Chapter 2: “a blasting March wind” and “Why couldn’t March make up its mind [whether it was early spring or late winter]?”
  72. Vendetta in Death, Chapter 1: “April 11, 2061, the day that marked the rise of Lady Justice.”
  73. Golden in Death, Chapter 1: “…as April, 2061 proved balmy and blooming”; Chapter 7: “…as April decided to rain again…”; Chapter 12: Eve asks Reginald Greenwald for his whereabouts on April 27 and 29, the nights poisoned golden eggs were dropped off at shipping companies, meaning the first murder and the first day of the timeline would have been April 28.
  74. Shadows in Death, Chapter 1: “…here on a balmy May night, in the blooming spring of 2061…”
  75. Chapter 5: Anna Hobe was reported missing June 1 and was abducted May 31, a Wednesday; Chapter 10: Mary Kate Covino's roommate, Cleo Bette tells Eve and Peabody that Mary Kate was supposed to go on vacation on June 3, 2061, but never went.
  76. Desperation in Death, Chapter 2: “Last night's storm had cleared the worst of a late June three-day heat wave...” (Before Eve gets the case, the girls are speculating about the dates, but it isn't clear how much in advance of their escape that is. Chapter 1: “The girl they'd brought in the week before claimed it was May - maybe - but her brain was still addled from Orientation. Plus the new one was really young - seven or eight maybe - and cried a lot.” Also Chapter 1: Mina thinks she's been there six months and ten days, which, since she was abducted November 9 (a Tuesday), puts it at mid-May.) In Chapter 3, Eve says Mina Cabot was held for over seven months before being killed, so since June 7 is seven months, it's later than that.
  77. Encore in Death, Eve finds out on Day 3 that Maeve Spindal wired Debra Bernstein $5,000 ten days ago (Chapter 15), which was deposited June 20 (Chapter 16), meaning Brant Fitzhugh was murdered June 28.
  78. Payback in Death begins during the last part of Eve and Roarke's three week anniversary trip, in Ireland (Chapter 1); their anniversary is in July. The rest of the book takes place in New York in the summer, with Roarke telling Eve, “It's still August” (Chapter 21) and Eve wondering why people would shop for sweaters in August (Chapter 22).
  79. Random in Death begins “in the sweltering summer of 2061” (Prologue). Then Roarke tells Eve that “every year, in the summer, Avenue A plays there (Club Rock It) one night for the teenage crowd” (Chapter 1). There are several other references to it being summer.
  80. The story begins on Monday, August 15, 2061: Chapter 1: “They’d chosen a Monday night at the Down and Dirty...” and “...in five days, only five more days, Erin thought, on August 20, 2061, she’ll be my wife, and I’ll be hers.”
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