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First British Edition Little,Brown (2001)

Paperback - timewarner (2003)

The Deadhouse
University professor Lola Dakota has suffered at the hands of her abusive husband for too long and when the police get wind of his plan to hire a hitman to kill her, she agrees to take part in an undercover operation to fake her own murder. The sting seems successful and her husband is arrested. However, less than a couple of hours later and Lola is dead again . . . this time for good.
Assistant District Attorney Alexandra Cooper is brought in to assist NYPD detectives Chapman and Wallace to find the killer. They are led into the academic world at Columbia University and find it to be riddled with petty jealousies, rumours of love affairs and swindled funds. Alex gradually uncovers tales about missing students, drug dealers and something referred to as the Deadhouse, which leads her to an island just off Manhattan, where Lola’s department was researching the remains of a Victorian penitentiary, hospitals and lunatic asylums.
To Alex, what was once a romantic refuge of history now seems to hide a past so dark it fuels the greed and passions of this microcosm of New York academia. She needs to find the driving force behind these acts of murder before the Deadhouse reclaims its secrets for ever . . .
Praise for Linda Fairstein
'Darkly woven with a shocking history of New York asylums, penitentiaries and plagues. The Deadhouse conjures up a horrid past to solve a baffling modern murder. Fairstein's latest continues to establish her as one of the most promising forces in crime fiction' Patricia Cornwell
'If it is authenticity you demand, Final Jeopardy has got it in spades ... Fairstein delivers the other ingredients, too: engaging characters, an intelligent story full of twists and terrific tension' Marcel Berlins, The Times
'Writing has the impact of early Patricia Cornwell' Time Out
'Riveting authenticity' Vanity Fair
'Gripping' Sunday Express

Paperback - Warner (2000)

First British Edition Little,Brown (1999)

Cold Hit
On a steamy August evening, after an exhausting day in court, Assistant District Attorney Alexandra cooper is called to a sombre crime scene. Alongside her colleagues, NYPD detectives Mike Chapman and Mercer Wallace, she views the body - a young woman pulled from the water with her hands and feet obscenely tied to a ladder. But who is she? Her elegant clothes and manicured nails suggest affluent connections, but just how well-connected surprises even Alex.
From a luxurious Fifth Avenue apartment, to famous mid-town auction houses, to the avant garde galleries of Chelsea, Alex, Mike and Mercer hunt for a killer in a very special world where priceless art meets big money in a lethal mix. Determined to crack the case, they know that sometimes they have to rely on luck, like a 'cold hit' which will match DNA from the crime scent: with a suspect's DNA profile in the police database - or is it a more sinister kind of 'cold hit 'which claimed the victim's life in this case?
Discovering that well-heeled villains are as vicious as ones from the slums, Alex and her police colleagues move ever closer to personal danger as they investigate a case which will have profound effects on all of them.
Illuminating and inspiring, Cold Hit, takes us from the paint-chipped offices of cops and DAs to the elegant restaurants of Alex's privileged Upper East Side life. The contrast is stunning, but it's all part of the extraordinary world that Linda Fairstein has brought so vividly to life in this magnificent novel of suspense.
'Absorbing, intricately woven - bring on the next' Patricia Cornwell

First British Edition Little,Brown (1998)

Paperback - Warner (1999)

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'.
'An authoritative and scary view from one who has battled evil and locked it away... Fairstein just gets better. Get to know her if you dare.' Patricia Cornwell

Paperback - Warner (1998)

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.
"Raw, real and mean. Linda Fairstein is wonderful." Patricia Cornwell
"Final Jeopardy is a smart and gutsy insider's whodunnit" Susan Isaacs