The Kills

Book info: The Kills (Hardcover, 500 pages – Large Print Press, 2005) – Large Print Press, 2005. Language: Eng.

A New York Times Bestseller From New York Times bestselling author and former top prosecutor Linda Fairstein comes an electrifying new thriller rich with the riveting behind-the-scenes authenticity that only she can offer. . . . It's going to be a tough trial. Manhattan sex-crimes prosecutor Alexandra Cooper's case, involving an attack on investment banker Paige Vallis, would be difficult to prove even without the latest development: it seems that Paige has something to hide. While Alex's police-detective friend Mercer Wallace helps her learn more of the sad details behind the increasingly puzzling rape case, colleague Mike Chapman is uptown in a decaying Harlem brownstone where eighty-two-year-old McQueen Ransome has been murdered, her apartment ransacked. Her murder will be only the first. Others follow, as the tragic strands of the Paige Vallis and McQueen Ransome cases begin to converge.About the author: Fairstein's first novel, Final Jeopardy, which introduced the character Alexandra Cooper, was published in 1996 to critical and commercial acclaim and was made into an ABC Movie of the Week. Likely to Die and Cold Hit followed, all three novels achieving international bestseller status. The Deadhouse, winner of the prestigious Nero Wolfe Award as best crime novel of 2001, and The Bone Vault both debuted on The New York Times and London Times bestseller lists. Her nonfiction book, Sexual Violence, was a New York Times notable book in 1994. Linda Fairstein lives with her husband in Manhattan and on Martha's Vineyard.