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Zusatztext Entertaining.... Full of fun information about the NYPL Informationen zum Autor Linda Fairstein is a former prosecutor and one of America's foremost legal experts on crimes of violence against women and children. For three decades she served in the office of the New York County District Attorney, where she was Chief of the Sex Crimes Prosecution Unit. In 2010 she was the recipient of the Silver Bullet Award from the International Thriller Writers association. Her Alexandra Cooper novels have been translated into more than a dozen languages and have debuted on the Sunday Times and the New York Times bestseller lists, among others. She lives in Manhattan and on Martha's Vineyard. Klappentext Another authentic spine-tingling thriller from the woman who has been there herself. When Assistant District Attorney Alexandra Cooper is summoned to Tina Barr's apartment on Manhattan's Upper East Side, she finds a neighbour convinced that the young woman has been assaulted. But the terrified victim, a conservator of rare books and maps, refuses to co-operate with Alex and the police investigators. After another woman is found murdered in the same apartment, with an extremely valuable book at her side, Alex is drawn into the strange and privileged world of rich and secretive book collectors, where avarice and greed is as strong an inheritance as wealth. Another authentic, spine-tingling thriller from the woman who has been there herself. Zusammenfassung Another authentic, spine-tingling thriller from the woman who has been there herself.
