{{short description|2005 novel by J. D. Robb}} {{Use mdy dates|date=November 2024}} {{Infobox book | image = Origin in Death.jpg | caption = First edition | name = Origin in Death | title_orig = | translator = | author = J. D. Robb | cover_artist = | country = United States | language = English | series = in Death | subject = | genre = Crime novel | publisher = The Penguin Group | release_date = July 2005 | media_type = Print (Hardcover, Paperback) | pages = 347 pp | isbn = 978-0-7499-3583-2 | oclc= 59353530 | preceded_by = Survivor in Death | followed_by = Memory in Death }} '''''Origin in Death''''' (2005) is a novel by American writer J. D. Robb,<ref>{{Cite web |date=2005-06-01 |title=Origin in Death |url=https://www.kirkusreviews.com/book-reviews/nora-roberts/origin-in-death/ |access-date=2024-11-02 |website=Kirkus Reviews}}</ref><ref>{{Cite web |date=2005-06-06 |title=Origin in Death by J. D. Robb |url=https://www.publishersweekly.com/9780399152894 |access-date=2024-11-03 |website=Publishers Weekly}}</ref> a pseudonym for Nora Roberts. It is the twenty-second novel in the In Death series, preceding ''Memory in Death''.
==Plot summary==
The story begins when Lt. Eve Dallas and Detective Delia Peabody are called to the murder scene of Dr. Wilfred B. Icove Sr. When they arrive, they are already confused by the circumstances surrounding his death. Dr. Icove was renowned as a genius of cosmetic and reconstructive surgery, and there was nobody benefiting his death, not even his son, Wilfred Icove Jr., thus that was ruled out as a motive. What they find even stranger are that the security disks reveal that a woman (with initials DNA) walking into Icove's office, killing him with a single stab to the heart before leaving.
When Dr. Icove Jr. is killed in the same way, Eve begins looking for another mystery woman, while her husband Roarke begins investigating an organization run by the Icoves and their partner, Dr. Jonah Wilson. Soon, they uncover a secret world inside a private school of young girls and women, created by the Icoves and Wilson. A world of children by design, where people aren't born, but cloned.
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