Cold Hit (Alex Cooper, Book 3) [Paperback]

Linda Fairstein (Author)

Book Description

Publication Date: June 1, 2004

Renowned sex-crimes prosecutor and bestselling author Linda Fairstein sends her acclaimed heroine -- the stylish and steely-nerved D.A. Alexandra Cooper -- on a hunt for a killer inside New York City's glitzy art world.

Alexandra Cooper has seen many murder victims, but few more disturbing than the silk-clad body of a woman, her hands and feet tied to a ladder, pulled from the turbulent waters at Manhattan's northern tip. With her colleagues, including NYPD detectives Mike Chapman and Mercer Wallace, Alex races against the clock and hopes for a "cold hit" -- a DNA match that would reveal the identity of the murderer by linking the crime to someone already in the police database. But as the case pulls her into the exclusive world of East Side auction houses and cutting-edge Chelsea galleries, Alex discovers she may be marked as an expendable commodity in a chilling and deadly scheme....

Editorial Reviews

Review

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

Lisa Scottoline bestselling author of Mistaken Identity Cold Hit is a sure hit! Linda Fairstein writes tough, beautiful prose about a world she knows firsthand. Cold Hit moves from crime scene to police headquarters to courtroom with a deftness only a true insider can manage.

About the Author

LINDA FAIRSTEIN, America's foremost legal expert on crimes of sexual assault and domestic violence, led the Sex Crimes Unit of the District Attorney's Office in Manhattan for twenty-five years. A Fellow of the American College of Trial Lawyers, she is a graduate of Vassar College and the University of Virginia School of Law. Her first novel, Final Jeopardy, introduced the critically acclaimed character of Alexandra Cooper and was made into an ABC Movie of the Week starring Dana Delaney. The celebrated series has gone on to include the New York Times bestsellers Likely to Die, Cold Hit, The Deadhouse (winner of the Nero Wolfe Award for Best Crime Novel of 2001, and chosen as a "Best Book of 2001" by both The Washington Post and the Los Angeles Times), The Bone Vault, The Kills, Entombed, Death Dance, and Bad Blood. Her novels have been translated into more than a dozen languages. Her nonfiction book, Sexual Violence, was a New York Times Notable Book of the Year. She lives with her husband in Manhattan and on Martha's Vineyard.

Visit her website at www.lindafairstein.com.

Product Details

• Paperback: 464 pages
• Publisher: Pocket Books (June 1, 2004)
• Language: English
• ISBN-10: 0743499816
• ISBN-13: 978-0743499811
• Product Dimensions: 5.3 x 1.2 x 8.2 inches
• Shipping Weight: 13.6 ounces (View shipping rates and policies)
• Amazon Best Sellers Rank: #630,651 in Books (See Top 100 in Books)