Blood oath / Linda Fairstein.
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- ISBN: 9781524743109
- Physical Description: 355 pages : maps ; 24 cm
- Publisher: New York : Dutton, [2019]
- Copyright: ©2019.
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Subject: | Cooper, Alexandra (Fictitious character) > Fiction. Women lawyers > New York (State) > New York > Fiction. Public prosecutors > New York (State) > New York > Fiction. |
Genre: | Mystery fiction. |
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- 2 of 2 copies available at South Interlake Regional Library.
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Location | Call Number / Copy Notes | Barcode | Shelving Location | Holdable? | Status | Due Date |
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Stonewall Library | FIC FAIRSTEIN (Text) | 3678713838 | Fiction | Volume hold | Available | - |
Teulon Library | FIC FAIRSTEIN A20 (Text) | 3678713839 | Fiction | Volume hold | Available | - |
- Booklist Reviews : Booklist Reviews 2019 February #2
Alex Cooper returns to work as head of the Manhattan Sex Crimes Unit after her mentor Paul Battaglia's murder (in Deadfall, 2017), and is greeted by a political maelstrom of attorneys jockeying to fill the DA power vacuum. Alex's determination to avoid the fray is thwarted by a new case: Lucy Jenner reveals that when she was 14 and the star witness in a highly publicized trial, she was raped by a federal prosecutor. Zachary "Jake" Palmer used his role to groom and, finally, assault her, forcing her to take a "blood oath" of silence. Now, Palmer is making a heavy-handed bid for the DA's office. As Alex painstakingly works to corroborate Lucy's recollections, her public-defender friend, Frances Fain, is poisoned. Alex discovers a link between Jenner and Fain but may be too late to stop a killer from silencing all three of them. A fast-paced battle of wits leading to a hair-raising climax in NYC's Rockefeller University medical research facility; series fans will get what they came for here.HIGH-DEMAND BACKSTORY: Fairstein is an A-lister with a proven track record for sales and for accumulating library reserves. Copyright 2019 Booklist Reviews. - Library Journal Reviews : LJ Reviews 2018 October #2
Copyright 2018 Library Journal.New York Times best-selling author Fairstein hands Assistant DA Alex Cooper another topical case, as a woman who testified years ago at a key federal trial discloses that she was sexually assaulted by a prominent law enforcement official at the time. That pulls Alex and NYPD detectives Mike Chapman and Mercer Wallace into dark secrets involving biomedical research at Manhattan's famed Rockefeller University. With a five-city tour. - Publishers Weekly Reviews : PW Reviews 2019 January #3
Manhattan sex crimes prosecutor Alex Cooper has no time to ease back into her routine after being kidnapped and witnessing the assassination of her boss in 2017's
Copyright 2019 Publishers Weekly.Deadfall , in bestseller Fairstein's 20th series legal thriller, notable for its focus on how to prove a rapist's guilt. When 24-year-old Lucy Jenner is arrested in Brooklyn on an outstanding Manhattan warrant, Alex's lover, NYPD Det. Mike Chapman, has the job of bringing Lucy to Alex's office. At the Brooklyn precinct, Lucy freaked out after seeing a photograph on the wall, and Alex manages to elicit from her that one of the men in that photo raped her many years earlier, a crime that Lucy had reported to the police, who failed to follow up. Despite warnings from Lucy's aunt that she's unreliable and manipulative, Alex finds Lucy's account and her identification of a powerful man as her assailant credible. A murder subplot and some plot contrivances are unnecessary in this otherwise solid entry. Fairstein's vast experience of working as a pioneer in sex crimes investigations enables her to make Alex's efforts both plausible and fascinating.Five-city author tour. Agent: Esther Newberg, ICM. (Mar.)