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The Deadhouse (Alexandra Cooper Series) Book

Penzler Pick:Much of Linda Fairstein's The Deadhouse is set in a section of New York City that hides in plain sight: Roosevelt Island, floating in the East River between Manhattan and Queens, a place with a lot of curious history and now home to several thousand middle-class residents living in high-rise apartment buildings. The corpse that kicks off the story's action was a Columbia history professor with the outlandish name of Lola Dakota. It turns out that she's not actually dead at all: the videotape of her bloody demise was a set-up, with her abusive husband having made the mistake of hiring undercover cops to kill her. Almost immediately, however, what was faked becomes real. Only this time Lola's body has been crushed in an elevator shaft, making her a victim unlikely to sit up and smile for the cameras as she had earlier in the day.The Roosevelt Island connection comes with the late Dr Dakota's interest in urban archaeology, specifically the site on the island that was once a 19th-century smallpox hospital where quarantined patients were sent. What gives it modern significance--and enough to kill for--is the possibility of locating buried treasure. Much livelier than the title would promise, The Deadhouse is a mystery in the best tradition of a once-esteemed writer who is largely forgotten today--Helen Reilly, whose 1940s crime novels also showed readers quaint and forgotten corners of the city. Linda Fairstein, creator of the Alexandra Cooper series, is also the nationally prominent Manhattan Assistant District Attorney in charge of the Sex Crimes Unit (who first came to prominence prosecuting the so-called "Preppy Murderer"). Wearing her mystery writer's hat, she has watched her work climb the bestseller lists. --Otto PenzlerRead More

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    Lola Dakota had to call in the police several times to restrain her abusive husband but he always returned so when they got wind of his plan to hire a hitman to kill her she agrees to play her part in the sting which would see both men arrested. It proves to be a great success but several hours later and when her husband is under lock and key Lola is truly dead -and by someone's hand. The police team on the original sting are in disarray so Alex Cooper and Mike Chapman are swiftly in place to take over. Looking beyond her husband into her professional life they discover a university department riddled with jealousies extra-marital affairs swindled funds and the unexplained disappearance of a student known to be a drug user. The one thing which seems to link all the players with all the misdemeanours is the university's research site on an island off Manhattan where they were investigating the remains of the Victorian isolation hospitals and lunatic asylums and the morgue - the deadhouse. But why Lola's murder is connected to the place is not so easy to prove nor the identity of her killer. Visit the author's website - www lindafairstein.com

  • Blackwell

    The latest investigation Assistant DA Alexandra Cooper, involving the murder of a woman who was meant to be under police protection. Lola Dakota had to call in the police several times to restrain her abusive husband, but he always returned...

  • 0751532630
  • 9780751532630
  • Linda Fairstein
  • 3 June 2002
  • Sphere
  • Paperback (Book)
  • 560
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