Cold Hit: Number 3 in series - Brossura

Fairstein, Linda

Brossura

ISBN 10: 0751523208 ISBN 13: 9780751523201

Casa editrice: Sphere, 2005

Riassunto

The third in Linda Fairstein's gripping and authentic series of crime novels featuring Assistant D.A. Alexandra Cooper. With aplomb, style and sharp compassion for her 'clients' Coop again unravels the truth behind murder in partnership with homicide detectives Mike Chapman and Mercer Wallace. The victim is Deni Caxton, third wife to the heir of a steel baron and a leading New York art dealer in her own right. As Coop, Chapman and Mercer investigate her brutal killing they strip away the elegant and refined façade of her marriage and the international art world to reveal a tangle of cut-throat business dealings, over blown egos and distorted passions. They find that the rich have the same motives for murder as the poorest killer - money, revenge, love and hate - and they rapidly discover that a veneer of artistic 'civilisation' doesn't prevent the use of blackmail or violence, not even when officers of the law stand in the way.
For more about Linda Fairstein and the Alexandra Cooper series visit her website at
www.lindafairstein.com

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Recensione:

FOR COLD HIT: '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)

#NAME? ('If it is authenticity you demand, Final Jeopardy has got it in spades.Fairstein delivers the other ingredients, too: engaging characters, an intelligent story full of twists and terrific tension')

Marcel Berlins, The Times ('Absorbing, intricately woven')

Patricia Cornwell ('Linda Fairstein is an important writer because she tells it like it is')

Descrizione del libro:

A skilfully executed plot, by a crime novelist whose powerful characters are drawn from her real life expertise. Absorbing, intricately woven - bring on the next.' Patricia Cornwell

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• Editore: Sphere
• Data di pubblicazione: 2005
• ISBN 10: 0751523208
• ISBN 13: 9780751523201
• Rilegatura: Copertina flessibile
• Numero di pagine: 416