Cold Hit

Linda Fairstein

За особеностите на екземпляра

Състояние:: Много добро
Забележка:: Внимателно използвана книга, леко захабен външен вид.
Език:: Английски
Наличност:: 1 бр.

За изданието

Издателство:: Little, Brown & Company
Град на издаване:: London
Година:: 1999 г.
Език:: Английски
Страници:: 413
Корици:: Меки
Категория:: Криминални романи
Тегло (гр.):: 552
Ширина (мм):: 155
Височина (мм):: 235
Дебелина (мм):: 41
ISBN:: 9780316644365

The victim is Deni Caxton; New York art dealer and third wife to the heir of a steel baron. As Coop, Chapman and Mercer investigate her brutal killing they strip away the refined facade of her marriage and the international art world to reveal a tangle of cut-throat business dealings. * Review: When Linda Fairstein describes the route Alexandra Cooper takes from the district attorney's office to NYPD headquarters, you know she's walked that way many times herself. "I took the shortcut over to One Police Plaza, cutting behind the Metropolitan Correctional Center and alongside the staggeringly expensive new federal courthouse, which made our digs, complete with oversized rodents and roaches that obviously thrived on Combat, look like judicial facilities in some third world country." Like her fictional counterpart, Fairstein is a Manhattan assistant district attorney in charge of a sex-crimes unit. As she did in Final Jeopardy and Likely to Die, Fairstein mires her somewhat unlikely heroine (a beautiful 35-year-old blond with an Ivy League education, a house in Martha's Vineyard, and an affection for betting on quiz shows at cop bars) in a wealth of procedural detail. The "cold hit" of the title, for example, refers to a computer match between DNA samples from a recent rape case with evidence from an older crime. With her trusty cop sidekicks Mike Chapman (who eats everything in sight and drops wisecracks like they're crumbs) and Mercer Wallace (who is a big fellow and can take a bullet meant for Alex without flinching), Cooper is working on two major cases--a serial rapist who has suddenly decided to come out of hiding and a couple of murders linked to the nasty underground world of fine-art sales. But she also has time to give her fellow sex-crime prosecutors advice on how to handle everything from a man shooting video up women's skirts at a Star Trek convention to a guy who takes his love for racehorses well past the legal limits. Once again, Fairstein has produced a story whose entertainment value is very high. --Dick Adler

Ключови думи: книги на английски език, съвременни романи, криминални романи, линда феърстийн, алекс купър