Mystery Women Authors

Linda Fairstein

Biography

Linda Fairstein is an Assistant District Attorney in New York and America's foremost expert on crimes of sexual assault and domestic violence. Her involvement with such cases as the Preppy Murder and the Central Park Jogger over the past two decades has gained her the reputation of one of the city's toughest prosecutors. She lives in Manhattan with husband and is working on the third Alexandra Cooper novel.

Books

Alexandra Cooper Mysteries

Final Jeopardy

The days of Assistant D.A. Alexandra Cooper often start off badly, but she's never faced the morning by reading her own obituary before.

It doesn't take long to sort out why it was printed: a woman's body with her face blown away, left in a car rented in Coop's name in the driveway of her weekend home. But it isn't so easy to work out why her lodger - an acclaimed Hollywood star - was murdered, or to be sure that the killer had found the right victim.

As Coop's job is to send rapists to jail there are plenty of suspects who might be seeking revenge, and whoever it is needs to be found before her obituary gets reprinted.

Published Scribner 1996

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Likely to Die

Following her highly successful debut in Final Jeopardy, Alexandra Cooper, Manhattan's top sex crimes prosecutor, returns to assist the investigation into a murder at a New York medical centre. The victim is Gemma Dogen, a leading neurosurgeon. She had been found in her office soaked in her own blood and rightly considered a case 'likely to die' before she could be got to the emergency room. She had also been sexually assaulted and Mike Chapman bypasses the rota system to make sure he has Coop and her expertise on hand for what promises to be a messy case. It is possible that the killer was someone who knew Gemma - a prickly thorn in the side of some of her colleagues - but the police rapidly discover that the hospital is as secure as a wall-less building. Scores of homeless men and women inhabit a maze of tunnels beneath the complex and roam it at will, there are no checks on staff, deliverymen, patients or visitors. Making sure any evidence left behind is treated correctly and securely, as well as trawling her files for any similar modus operandi, are just two elements to juggle in the high-pressured timetable of her working day. But as Mike Chapman concentrates on possible suspects and motives, she realises that someone is fearful of her knowledge and that she, too, might be 'likely to die'.

Published Scribner 1998

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Non Mystery Books

Sexual Violence: 20 Years in New York's Sex Crimes Prosecution Unit

Published Berkley Publishing Group June 1995

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Other sites for Linda Fairstein

Linda Fairstein - New York Prosecutor

An interview with Linda Fairstein

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Last updated 03-Mar-2002