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Zusatztext "Original! chilling! and brilliant." -- Nelson DeMille Informationen zum Autor Linda Fairstein was chief of the Sex Crimes Unit of the district attorney's office in Manhattan for more than two decades and is America's foremost legal expert on sexual assault and domestic violence. Her Alexandra Cooper novels are international bestsellers and have been translated into more than a dozen languages. She lives in Manhattan and on Martha's Vineyard. Klappentext In the latest "New York Times" bestselling thriller featuring Manhattan ADA Alexandra Cooper, Alex is in pursuit of a serial rapist. A mysterious link to another puzzling crime soon has Alex matching wits with the original master of detective fiction, Edgar Allan Poe. Zusammenfassung It was a crime scene Edgar Allan Poe himself could have conjured! only it was all too real: workers demolishing a nineteenth-century Greenwich Village brownstone where Poe once lived unearthed the skeleton of a young woman -- buried standing upright behind a brick wall. Manhattan Assistant D.A. Alexandra Cooper takes on the gruesome case while in pursuit of the Silk Stocking Rapist! who is terrorizing the Upper East Side. But Alex discovers that one crime thread leads to the other as she follows a trail of clues to the Bronx Botanical Gardens! where a group of Poe devotees may shed light on a stone-cold! modern-day murder of gothic proportions...and a cunning killer with a bone-chilling tale to tell.
