Linda A Fairstein
Author
Series
Alexandra Cooper novels volume 7
Pub. Date
c2005
Description
Workers demolishing a nineteenth-century brownstone where Edgar Allan Poe once lived discover a human skeleton entombed -- standing -- behind a brick wall. When sex crimes prosecutor Alexandra Cooper hears about the case, it strikes her as a classic Poe scene...except that forensic evidence shows that this young woman died within the last twenty-five years. Meanwhile, Alex's old nemesis the Silk Stocking Rapist is once again terrorizing Manhattan's...
22) Final jeopardy
Author
Series
Pub. Date
[1996]
Description
Assistant D.A. Alexandra Cooper becomes more victim than prosecutor when her friend, movie star Isabella Lascar is murdered while staying in Alex's summer home, driving a car rented in Alex's name, and apparently trying to steal Alex's boyfriend.
Author
Series
Alexandra Cooper novels volume 9
Pub. Date
c2007
Description
When the defense attorney shows that Kate Meade, the lead witness in Cooper's circumstantial case against Brendan Quillian for the murder of his wife, Amanda, has concealed her affair with the defendant, this revelation of Meade's potential bias has a devastating effect on the prosecution's case. As Cooper struggles to recover, the case takes a whole new twist when a fatal explosion in New York City's third water tunnel, which is under construction,...
Author
Series
Alexandra Cooper volume 12
Pub. Date
c2010
Description
Bodies of human trafficking victims are washing up on Rockaway Beach. At least one young woman appears to have been dead before she hit the frigid waters. Meanwhile, Ethan Leighton, a rising Manhattan congressman, has fled the scene of a car accident, possibly to avoid exposure of an extramarital affair and a love child. Leighton's paramour, who calls 911 to report that Leighton has threatened her, later disappears amid signs of violence. Both cases...
Author
Series
Alexandra Cooper novels volume 6
Pub. Date
c2004
Description
With its winning combination of courtroom drama, historical detail, and the intriguing lore of a rare object whose fabled provenance provides a glistening thread through the story.
Author
Series
Alexandra Cooper novels volume 19
Pub. Date
[2017]
Description
"Hunting a killer within New York's urban jungle becomes the biggest case of Alexandra Cooper's career inNew York Timesbestselling author Linda Fairstein's latest riveting thriller. A wild heart beats within New York City. Amid concrete and skyscrapers, the Wildlife Conservation Society works to preserve and protect the animal kingdom both within and beyond the borders of the five boroughs. But dangerous creatures don't always have claws and fangs,...
Author
Series
Devlin Quick mysteries volume 2
Pub. Date
[2017]
Description
"When twelve year old aspiring detective Devlin Quick goes on a fossil dig in the badlands of Montana, she realizes that she's uncovering more than just dinosaur bones, but clues indicating that a crime is afoot"--
Author
Series
Alexandra Cooper volume 11
Pub. Date
c2009
Description
At the start of bestseller Fairstein's entertaining 11th legal thriller to feature ADA Alexandra Cooper of Manhattan's Sex Crimes Prosecution Unit (after Killer Heat), Alex persuades librarian Tina Barr to go to the hospital after a burglar posing as a fireman assaults Tina at her East Side home. After Tina disappears, a woman's corpse turns up in Tina's abandoned apartment that looks like Tina's landlady, heiress Minerva Hunt, but in fact is Minerva's...
Author
Series
Alexandra Cooper novels volume 1
Pub. Date
[1997], c1996
Description
Assistant D.A. Alexandra Cooper becomes more victim than prosecutor when her friend, movie star Isabella Lascar is murdered while staying in Alex's summer home, driving a car rented in Alex's name, and apparently trying to steal Alex's boyfriend.
Series
Pub. Date
[2013]
Description
Pericles "Perry" Christo is a PI with a past--a former cop, who lost his badge and his family when a corruption scandal left him broke and disgraced. When wealthy Upper East Side matron Julia Drusilla summons him one cold February night, he grabs what seems to be a straightforward (and lucrative) case. The socialite is looking for her beautiful, aimless daughter, Angelina, who is about to become a very wealthy young woman. But as Christo digs deeper,...
34) Faceoff
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Description
Features pairings by twenty-three best-selling suspense writers, including John Sandford, F. Paul Wilson, and R. L. Stine, who in short high-action stories pit their most popular characters against one another.
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