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Type of bind: Mass Market Paperback
Dewey Decimal Number: 813.54
EAN num: 9780743436687
ISBN number: 0743436687
Label: Pocket Star
Manufacturer: Pocket Star
Quantity: 1
Page Count: 512
Printing Date: December 28, 2004
Publishing house: Pocket Star
Release Date: December 28, 2004
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Manhattan Assistant D.A. Alexandra Cooper is working feverishly on a tough trial, seeking justice for investment banker Paige Vallis. But in a heated 'he said, she said' case, Alex learns that Paige herself has something to hide. Uptown, the murder of an elderly woman with an intriguing past has NYPD officer Mercer Wallace and detective Mike Chapman hunting for an item of stunning value that may have cost McQueen Ransome her life: a legendary Double Eagle gold coin. The twisting threads of the seemingly unrelated tragedies soon entangle Alex in a life-and-death struggle in the watery inlets of New Jersey known as the Kills...where a violent predator is determined to silence her forever.
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A quick no nonsense story. Lsitened to audio CD and it made the time in the car go fast. Did not have to pay close attention as the story is pretty no frills.
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I enjoyed this book immensly. Like all of Linda Fairstein's previous works, she manages to blend suspense and mundane daily info in the life of her characters. Keeps you guessing until the end. I really like that books about independent, strong women are being published! I am looking forward to the subsequent book in this series.
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This is the very first book I've read by Linda Fairstein, and I must say that she didn't live up to the hype I've heard about her Alex Cooper mysteries. To be honest, I would have been more excited to read court transcripts from actual trials -- such was the tedium of this novel.
The complexity of the plot should make it more interesting, but instead I had a difficult time following who was speaking to whom. There were far too many secondary characters to carry the primary plot, resulting in a convoluted timeline that didn't entice.
Furthermore, and this is perhaps the most important thing I can say, I didn't care about what might happen to the characters. Alex Cooper didn't come across at all as sympathetic, and the lack of personal details about a character written in the very first person was just shoddy craftsmanship. I'm thoroughly unimpressed.
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To me, this is one of Linda Fairstein's best and I have enjoyed all her books about Alex Cooper. Plainly, I just could not put down this book! Read it, I think you will like it too.
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Alexandra Cooper, Chief of the Sex Crimes Division in the Manhattan DA's Office, is gearing up for a rape trial that she knows will be won or lost by the victim's testimony. The Defendant has hired a sleazy high priced lawyer that will stop at nothing in his client's defense. But all is not what it seems when motives far greater than securing a not guilty verdict come into play and Alex's victim winds up dead. Once again, Alex, along with her detective friends Mike Chapman and Mercer Wallace, put their super sleuthing skills to work to get to the bottom of the mystery and figure out what the bad guys are after that is worth more than life itself.
Fairstein has developed a set of characters that interact well together and have, in the past, entertained as they unravel various mysteries. But this one just didn't work. Despite the fact that Alex Cooper is a prosecutor, these books are far more interesting when she is on the hunt with the guys as opposed to in the courtroom. The courtroom scenes are bland and do not keep the pages turning at all. Unfortunately, that is not only how this novel begins, but it stays with the doomed rape trial for just about the very first half of the book. Then things shift to the investigation and for a while the pages are turning again and the story is fondly reminiscent of past episodes. But somewhere along the way it starts to drag and lose steam. By the end the reader just wants it to be over so they can move on to bigger and better.
I don't know how this bodes for successive Alex Cooper novels, but this one left me disappointed and bored. Interesting to note is that this novel is dedicated to Patricia Cornwell. While reading, I noticed a striking resemblance between the characters in this novel and the Kay Scarpetta/Marino duo in Cornwell's novels. I have found that Cornwell's novels reached a tipping point where they became unreadable and I am afraid that the Alex Cooper series has gone that way as well.
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