Linda Fairstein
1) Bad blood
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Alexandra Cooper novels volume 9
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Bad Blood finds Assistant DA Alexandra Cooper deeply involved in a complicated, high-profile homicide case. Defendant Brendan Quillian, a prominent young businessman, is charged with the brutal strangulation of his beautiful young wife, Amanda. His conviction is not a certainty: Quillian was conveniently out of town on the day of the killing, and he has hired a formidable defense attorney who seems one step ahead of Cooper as the trial opens. But...
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Alexandra Cooper novels volume 12
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Alexandra Cooper of the Manhattan District Attorney's office finds her attention torn between investigating a shipwreck that most certainly involves human trafficking and the sex scandal of a promising New York congressman. When she discovers that a woman from the wreck and the congressman's lover have the same tattoed brand, she realizes that the cases aren't as unrelated as they seem and that the entire political landscape of New York City could...
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Alexandra Cooper novels volume 1
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1996
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Alexandra Cooper, Manhattan's top sex-crimes prosecutor, awakes one morning to shocking news: a tabloid headline announcing her own brutal murder. But it was actually a Hollywood film star staying at Alex's Martha's Vineyard retreat. Was the star targeted or was she in the wrong place at the wrong time?
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Alexandra Cooper novels volume 5
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c.2003
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The New York Times bestselling author and renowned former Manhattan prosecutor follows her Nero Award-winning The Deadhouse with a new Alexandra Cooper novel set at the crossroads of big money, high culture, and murderŠ Wealthy donors have gathered in the Metropolitan Museum of Art's glorious Temple of Dendur to celebrate a controversial new exhibit. An uneasy mix of scholarship, showbiz, and aggressive marketing, "A Modern Bestiary" has raised fierce...
5) Silent mercy
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Prosecutor Alexandra Cooper is called to Harlem's Mount Neboh Baptist Church, a beautiful house of worship originally built as a synagogue, where the body of a young woman has been decapitated and set on fire. Alex wonders if the fire was meant to destroy the body, or to draw attention to it. A second corpse is found at a cathedral in Little Italy. Alex mines the depths of Manhattan's many houses of worship to find a connection between the victims...
6) Bad blood
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Bad Blood finds Assistant DA Alexandra Cooper deeply involved in a complicated, high-profile homicide case. Defendant Brendan Quillian, a prominent young businessman, is charged with the brutal strangulation of his beautiful young wife, Amanda. His conviction is not a certainty: Quillian was conveniently out of town on the day of the killing, and he has hired a formidable defense attorney who seems one step ahead of Cooper as the trial opens. But...
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Alexandra Cooper novels volume 11
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When Assistant District Attorney Alex Cooper is summoned to Tina Barr's apartment on Manhattan's Upper East Side, she finds a neighbor convinced that the young woman was assaulted. But the terrified victim, a conservator of rare books and maps, refuses to cooperate with investigators. Then another woman is found murdered in that same apartment with an extremely valuable book, believed to have been stolen. As Alex pursues the murderer, she is drawn...
8) Killer Heat
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Manhattan D.A. Alex Cooper investigates a series of three murders while dodging gang members infuriated with her most recent courtroom victory. The investigation leads to someone who has a twisted obsession with the military, and things grow even more dangerous when the chase leads to a chain of small, abandoned islands around New York harbor.
9) Cold hit
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p1999
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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 site. In her ten years as a sex crimes prosecutor, Alex has seen many victims, but few more poignant than today's, pulled from the water with her hands and feet obscenely tied to a ladder.Sleep comes uneasily after...
10) Night watch
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c.2012
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Shortly after Alexandra Cooper arrives in France to visit her boyfriend, restaurateur Luc Rouget, a young woman from the village is found murdered. The only evidence is one of Luc's matchboxes promoting his new restaurant in New York. But before the investigation begins, Alex is summoned back to New York. Mohammed Gil-Darsin, the head of the World Economic Bureau, has been arrested and accused of attacking a maid in his hotel. Alex finds her attention...
11) Death dance
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Alexandra Cooper novels volume 8
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Assistant DA Alexandra Cooper has always been fascinated by the stage, especially the Metropolitan Opera. When a world-renowned Russian ballerina is murdered at the Met shortly after her performance, Cooper quickly launches into an investigation, eager to go behind the scenes. But she soon discovers that the clues--and the suspects--are as complex as the corridors that zigzag throughout the great opera house.
12) Deadfall
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Alexandra Cooper novels volume 19
Pub. Date
c.2017
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"Hunting a killer within New York's urban jungle becomes the biggest case of Alexandra Cooper's career inNew York Timesbestselling author Linda Fairstein's latest riveting thriller. A wild heart beats within New York City. Amid concrete and skyscrapers, the Wildlife Conservation Society works to preserve and protect the animal kingdom both within and beyond the borders of the five boroughs. But dangerous creatures don't always have claws and fangs,...
13) Final jeopardy
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[1996]
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Assistant D.A. Alexandra Cooper becomes more victim than prosecutor when her friend, movie star Isabella Lascar is murdered while staying in Alex's summer home, driving a car rented in Alex's name, and apparently trying to steal Alex's boyfriend.
14) Deadfall
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Alexandra Cooper novels volume 19
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"A wild heart beats within New York City. Amid concrete and skyscrapers, the Wildlife Conservation Society works to preserve and protect the animal kingdom both within and beyond the borders of the five boroughs. But dangerous creatures don't always have claws and fangs, as Assistant DA Alexandra Cooper and NYPD detectives Mike Chapman and Mercer Wallace know all too well. Predators lurk close to home, and in the aftermath of the shocking assassination...
15) Death angel
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When the body of a young woman is discovered in Central Park, the clock begins ticking for Assistant DA Alex Cooper and Detectives Mike Chapman and Mercer Wallace to find the killer who has breached this haven in the middle of New York City. Is the body found in the lake, under the unseeing gaze of the Bethesda angel, the first victim of a deranged psychopath, or is the case connected to other missing girls and women in years past whose remains have...
16) Killer Look
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Alexandra Cooper novels volume 18
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"New York City is one of the fashion capitals of the world, well-known for its glamour and style. Nowhere is this more apparent than on the runway, where American haute couture continually astounds with its creativity, daring, and innovation in the name of beauty. Yet high fashion means high stakes, as Alex Cooper quickly discovers when businessman and designer Wolf Savage is found dead in an apparent suicide, mere days before the biggest show of...
17) Night watch
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"New York Times bestselling author Linda Fairstein returns with a ripped-from-the-headlines thriller that takes Alexandra Cooper into the dark underside of New York City's most storied restaurants and a murder case spanning continents. In her thirteen bestsellers, Linda Fairstein has taken millions of fans inside sinister worlds that most of us can't even imagine. Thanks to her extensive experience as a New York City prosecutor, she creates situations...
18) Devil's bridge
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The Manhattan waterfront is one of New York City's most magnificent vistas, boasting both the majestic Statue of Liberty and the George Washington Bridge, the world's busiest span for motor vehicles. But in "Devil's Bridge," Detective Mike Chapman will discover the peril that lurks along this seemingly benign expanse as he takes on his most personal case yet: the disappearance of Alex Cooper. Coop's sudden disappearance is fraught with terrifying...
19) Terminal city
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From the world's largest Tiffany clock decorating the 42nd Street entrance to its spectacular main concourse, Grand Central has been a symbol of beauty and innovation in New York City for more than one hundred years. When the body of a young woman is found in the tower suite of the Waldorf Astoria--one of the most prestigious hotels in Manhattan--Assistant DA Alex Cooper and Detectives Mike Chapman and Mercer Wallace find themselves hunting for an...
20) Blood Oath (
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Alexandra Cooper novels volume 20
Pub. Date
2019.
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"New York Times bestselling author Linda Fairstein explores the depths of Manhattan's secretive Rockefeller University in this timely, captivating thriller about the deep--and often deadly--reverberations of past sins. Assistant DA Alexandra Cooper of the Manhattan Sex Crimes Unit is finally back at work following a leave of absence, and not a moment too soon. With more women feeling empowered to name their abusers, Alex is eager to return to the...