Remember When (novel)

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name = Remember When
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author = Nora Roberts / J. D. Robb
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country = United States
language = English
series = in Death
genre = Crime novel
publisher = The Penguin Group
release_date = Sept, 2003
media_type = Print (Hardcover, Paperback)
pages = 483 pp
isbn = ISBN 0-425-20426
preceded_by = Imitation in Death
followed_by = Divided in Death

Remember When (2003) is a novel co-written by Nora Roberts, and her alter ego J. D. Robb. It is both a nonseries novel, and the eighteenth In Death novel. The plot follows a diamond robbery, over a span of 56 years.

Part One

Laine Tavish runs an antique shop called Remember When, and spends her time trying to forget her father Jack O'Hara. O'Hara is a career thief, and although Laine loves her father, she want's nothing to do with him. Unfortunately, when her fathers best friend is killed in front of Remember When, Laine can't help but get involved. Her fathers friend wasn't the only one who's tracked her down, and before he died, he tells Laine "Hide the Pooch"

Soon, a private investigator named Max Gannon with Laine. It is revealed that her father, his best friend, another man named Alex Crew, and an inside man, stole $28 million dollars worth of diamonds, and divided them into four shares. But Alex Crew has decided he wanted all of the diamonds, and has already killed two of them, and taken one of the other shares. Two are still out there, and Crew will kill Laine, Max, and Jack, to get his hands on them.

Part Two

Samantha Gannon is the granddaughter of Laine and Max, and the great-granddaughter of Jack O'Hara. Samantha has written a book on the diamond robbery, in which she reveals that 1/4 of the diamonds were never recovered, and $7 million dollars are still hidden somewhere. One evening, Samantha returns home to find her roommate, Andrea Jacobs, dead, slashed across the throat. Lt. Eve Dallas is brought into the investigation, and soon it becomes apparent that the murders are connected to the diamond robbery.

With the help of her billionaire husband Roarke, and new detective partner Peabody, Eve is on the trail of the last relative of Alex Crew. Trevor Whitter is his grandson, and obsessed with the missing diamonds. Convinced Samantha knows where they are, he will do any thing to get her. Once he finds the diamonds, he will kill her too.

The diamonds will make another appearance in Memory in Death, as a Christmas present to Eve, from Roarke.