KILLER HEAT
Linda Fairstein
Doubleday
Legal Thriller
ISBN: 9780385523974

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It’s August in New York, and the only thing that’s hotter than the pavement is Manhattan D.A. Alex Cooper’s professional and personal life. Just as she’s claiming an especially gratifying victory in a rape case, she gets the call: the body of a young woman has been found in an abandoned building. The brutality of the murder is disturbing enough, but when a second body, beaten and disposed of in exactly the same manner, is found off the Belt Parkway, the city’s top brass want the killer found fast, before the tabloids can start churning out ghoulish serial killer headlines.

Between dodging the bullets of the gang members who are infuriated by Alex’s most recent courtroom victory and keeping a rendezvous with a charming restaurateur, a serial killer on the loose is the last thing she needs on her plate right now. Then a third victim is found, and it becomes clear to Alex and her team that time is not on their side.

Through Alex’s peerless interrogation skills --- and one big break --- the search becomes focused on someone who has a twisted obsession with the military, and things grow increasingly dangerous when the chase leads to a chain of small, abandoned islands around New York harbor.

Once again Linda Fairstein brilliantly orchestrates a page-turning mix of cutting-edge legal issues and forensics, New York City history, and spine-tingling suspense. And at the center of it all is Alex Cooper --- stunning, single-minded, accomplished, and not to be trifled with whether she’s in or out of a courtroom.

KILLER HEAT © Copyright 2008 by Linda Fairstein. Reprinted with permission by Doubleday. All rights reserved.

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Critical Praise

Praise for KILLER HEAT

"Fairstein delivers a scorcher of a crime novel --- her hottest yet."

––– Library Jounal

"Fairstein’s nail-biting 10th legal thriller… manages to both entertain and educate."

––– Publishers Weekly

"Intriguing… fans will love the result."

––– Kirkus

"Fairstein proves what a fantastic legal mind she has."

––– The Mirror

Praise for Linda Fairstein

"One of the best crime fiction writers in America today... Fairstein is fantastic!"

––– Nelson Demille

"Alexandra Cooper, like her creator Linda Fairstein, is a force to contend with; smart, tough, and literate to boot!"

––– Sue Grafton

"Linda Fairstein is an important writer because she tells it like it is. Every page… is brimming with the kind of you-are-there reality that can only come from someone who has been there, seen it, done it. But more so than her experience and expertise, Fairstein eloquently brings to these same pages a cast of characters who completely grip us as they struggle to keep the light on in the midst of all the darkness. There is a quiet nobility in these people. They are heroes through and through."

–––Michael Connelly

"The romantic tension, the fast-paced plotting, and the New York setting will keep fans of Fairstein's series engrossed."

––– Booklist

"No-holds-barred adventure."

––– Kirkus Reviews

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