A
chilling new Alexandra Cooper thriller from the acclaimed
Manhattan Assistant D.A. who lives the gritty and glamorous life
she writes.
The raves are in for Linda
Fairstein's Alexandra Cooper novels. "Riveting
authenticity," says Vanity Fair. "Grisham-esque,"
says Time. "There is an anger and a passion in Alex
Cooper that is clearly not fictional," says The London
Times.
From its dramatic opening scene when
a silk-clad corpse washes up from the turbulent waters at
Manhattan's northern tip to its stunning conclusion when
Alexandra runs for her life, Cold Hit transports the
reader behind the scenes with the cops, the criminals, the
victims, and the denizens of the art world. Here is the
authenticity, the vision, that only Linda Fairstein can provide.
On a steamy August evening, after an
exhausting day in the courtroom, Assistant District Attorney
Alexandra Cooper joins her longtime pals and
partners-in-investigation, NYPD detectives Mike Chapman and
Mercer Wallace, at a somber crime scene.
In her ten years as a sex crimes
prosecutor, Alex has seen many victims, but few more poignant
than this one, pulled from the water with her hands and feet
obscenely tied to a ladder.
Sleep comes uneasily after such a
vision, but the knowledge that monsters walk the city's streets,
preying on the innocent, motivates Alex and her colleagues in
their sometimes heartbreaking work. Perhaps this time they will
be lucky.
A "cold hit" could match
DNA from the crime scene with a suspect's DNA profile in the
police database. Or is this case a more sinister kind of
"cold hit"? Who was this latest victim?
From a luxurious Fifth Avenue
apartment to famous midtown auction houses to the avant-garde
galleries of Chelsea, Alex, Mike, and Mercer hunt for a killer
in a very special world where priceless art meets big money in a
lethal mix.
Whether it's a missing Rembrandt, a
Vermeer in need of authentication, or doors paneled with
precious amber and missing since the great Nazi art thefts, the
stakes are high, the consequences potentially fatal.
Illuminating and inspiring, Cold
Hit takes us from the paint-chipped offices of cops and
D.A.s to the elegant restaurants of Alex's privileged Upper East
Side life.
The contrast is striking, but it's
all part of the extraordinary world that author Linda Fairstein
has brought so vividly to life in this magnificent novel of
suspense.
