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The Deadhouse
Title: The Deadhouse
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Quote by Patricia Cornwell: 'Darkly woven with a shocking history of New York asylums, penitentiaries and plagues. The Deadhouse conjures up a horrid past to solve a baffling murder..........'
The Deadhouse
Title: The Deadhouse
Description:
Lola Dakota had to call in the police several times to restrain her abusive husband, but he always returned, so when they got wind of his plan to hire a hitman to kill her she agrees to play her part in the sting which would see both men arrested. It proves to be a great success, but several hours later and when her husband is under lock and key, Lola is truly dead -and by someone's hand. The police team on the original sting are in disarray, so Alex Cooper and Mike Chapman are swiftly in place to take over. Looking beyond her husband into her professional life, they discover a university department riddled with jealousies, extra-marital affairs, swindled funds and the unexplained disappearance of a student known to be a drug user. The one thing which seems to link all the players with all the misdemeanours is the university's research site on an island off Manhattan where they were investigating the remains of the Victorian isolation hospitals and lunatic asylums and the morgue - the deadhouse. But why Lola's murder is connected to the place is not so easy to prove, nor the identity of her killer.
The Kills
Title: The Kills
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Prosecuting Andrew Tripping for assault of Paige Vallis is already hard enough for Assistant District Attorney Alexandra Cooper.. No evidence, no forensics, it is the classic 'he said-she-said' scenario that is so difficult to prove.. Which is why Alex is pinning her hopes on Kevin Bessemer, Tripping's cellmate at Rikers, and Dulles, Tripping's ten-year-old son, who was in the house on the night in question... But on the way from Rikers to meet Alex, Bessemer uses the situation to make good his escape.. And interviewing Dulles is proving equally difficult: first the social workers won't let her see him; and, when judge does grant Alex permission, Dulles disappears.. Then, as the trial begins, a murder overtakes events inside the courtroom, and Alex is plunged into a race against time to discover the truth: a terrifying journey that ends up in the Kills, the eerie waterways along the coastline of New York's harbour....
Final Jeopardy
Title: Final Jeopardy
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The days of Assistant D.A Alexandra Cooper often start off badly but she's never faced the morning by reading her own obituary before. It doesn't take long to sort out why it was printed.: a woman's body with her face b;own waway , left in a car rented in Coop's namein the driveway of her weekend home. As Coop's job is to send rapists to jail there are plenty of suspects who might be seeking revenge, and whoever it is needs to be found before her obituary gets reprinted.
Cold Hit
Title: Cold Hit
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When Linda Fairstein describes the route which Alexandra Cooper takes from the District Attorney's office to NYPD headquarters you know she's walked that way many times herself. "I took the shortcut over to One Police Plaza, cutting behind the Metropolitan Correctional Center and alongside the staggeringly expensive new federal courthouse, which made our digs, complete with oversized rodents and roaches that obviously thrived on Combat, look like judicial facilities in some third world country". Like her fictional counterpart Fairstein is a Manhattan assistant district attorney in charge of a sex crimes unit. As in Final Jeopardy and Likely to Die Fairstein surrounds her somewhat unlikely heroine (a beautiful 35-year-old blonde with an Ivy League education, a house in Martha's Vineyard and an affection for betting on quiz show answers at cop bars) with a wealth of procedural detail. The "cold hit" of the title, for example, refers to a computer match between DNA samples left by a rapist in a recent case with evidence from an older crime. With her trusty cop sidekicks Mike Chapman (who eats everything in sight and drops wisecracks like crumbs) and Mercer Wallace (who is big and can take a bullet meant for Alex without flinching) Cooper is working on two major cases--a serial rapist who has suddenly decided to come out of hiding and a couple of murders linked to the nasty underground world of fine art sales. But she also has time to give her fellow sex crime prosecutors advice on how to handle everything from a man shooting videos up women's skirts at a Star Trek convention to a guy who takes his love for racehorses well past the legal limits. Once again the entertainment value is very high. --Dick Adler
Entombed
Title: Entombed
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The Silk Stocking rapist made flashy fodder for the press, targeting New York's wealthier women. And then he just disappeared, leaving the police with only a composite sketch of his appearance. Now, four years later, he's back in Assistant DA Alexandra Cooper's territory. yet she and Detective Mike Chapman have only science in the form of DNA to help them. But suddenly science is sidelined by history, with the macabre discovery of a woman's body walled up in a historic house. It's the house where Edgar Allan Poe penned an exquisite meditation on passion and revenge - a tale of being buried alive...But this corpse, now a skeleton was nothing to do with Poe. It dates from the late 1970's. And then the Silk Stocking rapist strikes again. Or does he? This time the victim is murdered. her death at least means that her greatest fear will never be realised - her terror of being buried alive. A terror, as Alex discovers, that dates back to about 1978.
Death Dance
Title: Death Dance
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Natalya Galinova, prima ballerina with a fierce temper and a foul mouth, storms out of a ballet at the Metropolitan Opera House. Twenty-four hours later she is officially a missing person. Several hours after that, she is officially dead. Asst DA Alexandra Cooper finds the corpse. Natalya, it transpires, never left the Opera House. Her final curtain call took place behind the scenes with an audience of one - her killer. For Alex, the sudden immersion into the world of New York's theatrical elite is a welcome change from her ongoing investigations into a Turkish sex criminal and the Riverside Drive rapist. For Mike Chapman of the NYPD, returning to work after the tragic death of his girlfriend, the murder recalls an earlier scene. His first corpse - witnessed in childhood - was at the Met. The case exposed murky, private dealings behind a glorious public facade. Twenty-five years later, it looks like he, Alex and Detective Mercer Wallace are dealing with an even more sensational script ... They are. For behind Broadway there is now the legendary Berk clan, the most dysfunctional family to hit the boards since the Sopranos. Joe, the monster at the helm; Mona, the litigious niece; and the elusive son, Briggs. And behind them is a sinister cast of directors and agents - and a killer still on the loose. A killer familiar with theatrical superstition, well-versed in the business rivalries, personal fueds and sexual jealousies of the stage. A killer who is very keen that Alex takes her final bow very violently out of this particularl performance..
Likely To Die
Title: Likely To Die
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Gemma Dogen, a leading neurosurgeon, is found in her office at a New York medical centre, soaked in her own blood and rightly considered a case 'likely to die' before she can be got to the emergency room. She has also been sexually assaulted and Mike Chapman bypasses the rota system to make sure he has Alexandra Cooper, Manhattan's top sex-crimes prosecutor, on hand for what promises to be a messy case. It is possible that the killer was someone who knew Gemma - a prickly thorn in the side of some of her colleagues - but the police rapidly discover that the hospital is as secure as a wall-less building. Scores of homeless men and women inhabit a maze of tunnels beneath the complex and roam it at will; there are no checks on staff, deliverymen, patients or visitors. Making sure any evidence left behind is treated correctly and securely, as well as trawling her files for any similar modus operandi, are just two elements to juggle in the high-pressured timetables of Alexandra's working day. But as Mike Chapman concentrates on possible suspects and motives, Coop realises that someone is fearful of her knowledge and that she, too might be 'likely to die'.
Death Dance
Title: Death Dance
Description:
Once again Linda Fairstein uses her experience as Manhattan's leading DA to create a tantalyzing web of intrigue, betrayal and murder. Teaming up with longtime friends and colleagues, Mike Chapman and Mercer Wallace, Alex Cooper investigates the disappearance of a world- famous dancer, who has vanished from the Metropolitan Opera House. Drawn behind the scenes of New York's theatrical community, the team is haunted by ghosts of the dramatic old theatres - and from their own pasts. At the same time, Alex and Mercer are trying to collar a doctor who's been using his extensive knowledge of and access to drugs to overpower women before assualting them. A spell-binding thriller combining the unique history of New York with fresh insight into the latest forensic techniques.

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