Killer Heat

Zusatztext “Fairstein . . . makes the legal issues more exciting than any high-speed chase.” — The New York Times “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“Fairstein. . . . 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.” —Michael Connelly Informationen zum Autor Linda Fairstein! one of America's foremost legal experts on crimes of sexual assault and domestic violence! ran the Sex Crimes Unit of the District Attorney's Office in Manhattan for more than two decades. Her first novel! Final Jeopardy ! which introduced the character of Alexandra Cooper! was published in 1996 to critical and commercial acclaim. Her nonfiction book! Sexual Violence ! was a New York Times Notable Book in 1994. She lives with her husband in New York and on Martha's Vineyard.www.lindafairstein.com Klappentext It's August in New York! and the only thing that's hotter than the pavement is Manhattan D.A. Alex Cooper's personal and professional 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 is found in Brooklyn! beaten and disposed of in the exact same manner! the city's top brass want the killer found fast. Relying on razor sharp instincts! a whip-smart partner! and one big break Alex races to find the killer and keep him from killing again! even if it's at her own peril. Copy and paste the URL below into your browser to download a free pdf of Linda Fairstein's new novel! Hell Gate ! available in hardcover March 2010: http://knopfdoubleday.com/marketing/Hell_Gate_Chapter_1.pdf ONE Mike Chapman bit into the tip of a Cohiba and held the match to the end of his thick cigar, drawing several deep breaths to make certain it was lighted. "Take a few hits, Coop," he said, passing it to me. I shook my head. "The stench from that corpse is going to stay in your brain for weeks unless you infuse it right away with something more powerful. Why do you think I've always got a couple of these in my pocket?" I took the cigar from Mike and rolled it between my fingers. "Don't look at the damn thing. Smoke it. That broad's been decomposing for days in an empty room during a summer heat wave. Wrap your lips around that sucker and inhale till the smoke comes through your nose and ears, and maybe even from between your toes." I put it to my lips, coughing as the harsh tobacco taste filled my mouth and lungs. There were no overhead lights above the concrete barriers we sat on at the intersection of South Street and Whitehall, which dead-ended at the East River, near the southernmost tip of Manhattan. "There's no air out here. Not even a breeze off the water." "Almost midnight and it's still ninety-seven degrees. She's cooking in that room," Mike said, tossing his head in the direction of the crime scene that he'd been working for the last three hours. His black hair glistened with sweat, and the perspiration on his shirt made the cotton cloth cling to his chest. "Whatever body parts were left intact will be fried by the time they bag her." "Are you going with the guys to the morgue?" I asked. "Might be the coolest place in town tonight. You into refrigerated boxes?" "I'll pass. Are they almost done?" "The ME was ready to call it quits when the maggot maven showed up." The putrefaction of the woman's body, which had been left to rot in the abandoned government offices over the old ferry slip, offered an irr...

Product details

• Authors: Linda Fairstein
• Publisher: Anchor Books USA
• Languages: English
• Product format: Paperback
• Released: 27.01.2009
• EAN: 9780307387745
• ISBN: 978-0-307-38774-5
• No. of pages: 480
• Dimensions: 107 mm x 175 mm x 30 mm
• Subject: Fiction > Suspense > Crime fiction, thrillers, espionage