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Title: Likely to Die by Linda Fairstein ISBN: 0-671-01493-5 Publisher: Pocket Books Pub. Date: 01 September, 1998 Format: Mass Market Paperback Volumes: 1 List Price(USD): $7.99 |
Average Customer Rating: 3.52 (27 reviews)
Rating: 5
Summary: Better than the first - Alex Cooper has possibilities
Comment: Although I confess to having loved Fairstein's first book, "Final Jeopardy", I thought it was really a fluke. It was extremely well-written and thought out, but I didn't think that she could do it again.
Well, I'm happy to report that Fairstein has proved me wrong, in grand style. "Likely to Die" is the second book in her series featuring Alex Cooper, the head of the sex crimes unit of the New York City District Attorney's office. This entry in the series involves the rape and murder of a prominent doctor in a city hospital. Or was there a rape? As the investigation proceeds Cooper and her associate, New York City cop Mike Chapman, begin to wonder. To say any more would spoil the plot.
As the real-life head of that same unit, Fairstein knows her stuff, and also knows the city backwards and forwards. It's the little things that make this book so good - e.g., Alex wakes up to Don Imus and mentions Jim Ryan, the host of the morning news show on the local Fox station. There are one or two misses - she apparently doesn't take the subway too often - but overall she's right on target with her description of life in the greatest city in the world.
She also makes Cooper, Chapman, and Chapman's partner Mercer Wallace seem so real you believe they actually exist - and she keeps up the "Final Jeopardy" gimmick of Cooper & Chapman betting on the answer for each night's Final Jeopardy question. I'm still hoping that Cooper & Chapman become more than just friends and partners - the signs are all there - but I won't be unhappy if they don't.
Rating: 3
Summary: Sophmore Slump
Comment: As disposable fiction goes "Likely to Die" is entertaining enough, but not as successful as Fairstein's first mystery, "Final Jeopardy." The culprit this time around is no surprise, nor is his/her reason for having commited the murder in the first place. The letdown of the ending doesn't quite justify the book's length, which is padded with too many scenes of Alexandra Cooper (the feisty prosecutor heroine) lecturing -- and I do mean lecturing -- at various posh affairs about the prevelance of sexual crime in our times. Not an unimportant message, but not one that we need to hear over and over. Still, Fairstein writes relatively well, and the book is never boring. I just wish it had had the type of surprise ending that her first book had. After all, isn't that why we read mysteries in the first place?
Rating: 4
Summary: Another Great Mystery in the Alexandra Cooper Series!
Comment: Alexandra Cooper, head of New York County's Sex Crimes Prosecution Unit, hadn't been involved in a major case since her actress friend was murdered six months previous so she was a little surprised when Detective Mike Chapman woke her at 5:30 am about a new case. Turns out Gemma Dogan, head of neurosurgery at Mid-Manhattan Medical Center, brain surgeon and professor for the prestigious hospital was found stabbed six times in her office. It also appeared as if she had been raped and then left for dead. Alexandra was a little uncomfortable with the comparisons to her own personal life, or lack thereof, and put all of her energy into finding out who hated Gemma enough to do this to her.
Unfortunately, Alexandra soon finds herself with a long list of suspects. There is John DuPre and Coleman Harper, both neurologists who claim to have evidence regarding the murder, but details of their interviews conflict and don't quite add up. There is William Dietrich, the director of the hospital, who is desperate to clean up the hospital's public image. Then there are the many applicants for Mid-Manhattan's neurology unit that Gemma denied. Failing those, there are the hundreds of homeless people who live in the tunnels and basements of the hospital and wander about at will, including one that is know simply as 'Pops' who was found wearing scrubs covered in human blood. As Alexandra sifts through one lead after another, she uncovers a lot more dirty secrets at Mid-Manhattan, secrets that someone will do anything to keep hidden...
Likely to Die is the second book in the Alexandra Cooper series (after Final Jeopardy) and I enjoyed it just as much. I love the way Fairstein accurately portrays the ins and outs of the judiciary system and police methods. Alexandra doesn't just drop everything to take on this case, she has many other cases that she is supervising and advising and it is interesting to follow her throughout her day as she preps witnesses and aids her fellow prosecutors. I also enjoyed the banter between Alexandra and Mike, especially their bets on the Jeopardy games. I really felt like I was reading a book about what it is like to work in the Sex Crimes Prosecution Unit in New York. I loved the author's attention to detail and clear, crisp writing style. Definitely an author that I will keep reading.
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Title: The Deadhouse by Linda Fairstein ISBN: 0671019546 Publisher: Pocket Books Pub. Date: 31 December, 2002 List Price(USD): $7.99 |
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Title: The Bone Vault by Linda Fairstein ISBN: 0743436679 Publisher: Pocket Star Pub. Date: 30 December, 2003 List Price(USD): $7.99 |
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Title: The Kills by Linda Fairstein ISBN: 0743223551 Publisher: Scribner Pub. Date: 13 January, 2004 List Price(USD): $25.00 |
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Title: Blindsighted by Karin Slaughter ISBN: 0380820889 Publisher: HarperTorch Pub. Date: 01 October, 2002 List Price(USD): $7.50 |
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Title: The Bone Vault : A Novel by Linda Fairstein ISBN: 0743223543 Publisher: Scribner Pub. Date: 21 January, 2003 List Price(USD): $25.00 |
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