The Deadhouse (Alexandra Cooper Series)
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Penzler Pick:Much of Linda Fairstein's The Deadhouse is set in a section of New York City that hides in plain sight: Roosevelt Island, floating in the East River between Manhattan and Queens, a place with a lot of curious history and now home to several thousand middle-class residents living in high-rise apartment buildings. The corpse that kicks off the story's action was a Columbia history professor with the outlandish name of Lola Dakota. It turns out that she's not actually dead at all: the videotape of her bloody demise was a set-up, with her abusive husband having made the mistake of hiring undercover cops to kill her. Almost immediately, however, what was faked becomes real. Only this time Lola's body has been crushed in an elevator shaft, making her a victim unlikely to sit up and smile for the cameras as she had earlier in the day.
The Roosevelt Island connection comes with the late Dr Dakota's interest in urban archaeology, specifically the site on the island that was once a 19th-century smallpox hospital where quarantined patients were sent. What gives it modern significance--and enough to kill for--is the possibility of locating buried treasure. Much livelier than the title would promise, The Deadhouse is a mystery in the best tradition of a once-esteemed writer who is largely forgotten today--Helen Reilly, whose 1940s crime novels also showed readers quaint and forgotten corners of the city.
Linda Fairstein, creator of the Alexandra Cooper series, is also the nationally prominent Manhattan Assistant District Attorney in charge of the Sex Crimes Unit (who first came to prominence prosecuting the so-called "Preppy Murderer"). Wearing her mystery writer's hat, she has watched her work climb the bestseller lists. --Otto Penzler --This text refers to an out of print or unavailable edition of this title.
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** 'If it is authenticity you demand, Linda Fairstein has got it in spades...she delivers the other ingredients, too: engaging characters, an intelligent story full of twists and terrific tension' Marcel Berlins, THE TIMES ** 'Darkly woven with a shocking history of New York asylums, penitentiaries and plagues. THE DEADHOUSE vonjures up a horrid past to solve a baffling murder.' Patricia Cornwell ** 'Gripping.' WOMAN'S WAY
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11 of 11 people found the following review helpful
Format:Paperback
I don't normally enjoy crime/thrillers, so I was not that keen to read this when given a copy. Attracted and intrigued by the cover photo, I started to read, and within pages I was hooked! Alexandra Cooper is a clever but vulnerable heroine who gave me an insight into the workings of the US criminal and legal system, as well as excellent descriptions of New York. At times I felt like one of Alex's friends, with whom she keeps in regular touch, in the way she described her days and nights. Since then I have bought all Linda Fairstein's other books, and while Final Jeopardy was marvellous, I felt Likely to Die and Cold Hit were not quite so appealing. I am nevertheless looking forward to reading the new titles. I hope that Alex Cooper does not have so many lucky escapes and cheat death so many times that she becomes an improbable and unbelievable character.
3 of 3 people found the following review helpful
Format:Paperback
Another good book by Linda Fairstein - The Deadhouse is a fascinating read which will have you burning the midnight oil. The descriptions and historical information about the New York island are great.
Lots of twists and turns keep your interest until the last few chapters. Unfortunately the author appears to have been in a hurry to finish (or ran out of pages ? ) and the story leaves a lot of loose ends which is very frustrating.
Overall an interesting and nail-biting book, but it needs a couple more chapters on the end !!
Lots of twists and turns keep your interest until the last few chapters. Unfortunately the author appears to have been in a hurry to finish (or ran out of pages ? ) and the story leaves a lot of loose ends which is very frustrating.
Overall an interesting and nail-biting book, but it needs a couple more chapters on the end !!
3 of 3 people found the following review helpful
Format:Hardcover
I waited anxiously for this book to be published and although I would not describe my feelings as disappointed, this book was not on the same level as the first three novels. The plot was in some parts confusing however the will they won't they saga of the possibility of Alex and Mike being more than friends continues. The ending was rather abrupt and left me thinking - eh?
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The Deadhouse - superb
A woman murdered by being crushed in a lift shaft. Not a book for the faint-hearted. Linda Fairstein's working background gives her plenty of material for books of this nature,... Read more
Published 9 days ago by Jaymet
a good holiday read
I am not a great fan of american crime stories (2 nations divided by the same language and I just don't get some of the Americanisms). Read more
Published 9 months ago by K. Brockbank
The Deadhouse
This was my first Fairstein book. I thought it was OK, I liked the setting of Blackwells and the Deadhouse. Read more
Published on 10 Sep 2007 by molko
From the sleeve....
University professor Lola Dakota has suffered at the hands of her abusive husband too long and when the police get wind of his plan to hire a hitman to kill her, she agrees to fake... Read more
Published on 31 Aug 2007 by Angel Silver
Death in New York
Quite a competent, if not compulsive, murder mystery from an author whose novels are so authentic they read like an autobiography. Read more
Published on 11 Mar 2003
Dead Boring
This is the type of book that could put you off reading. Not so much a 'whodunnit' as a 'whocares'.Convoluted, fragmented and without suspense. Don't waste you time.
Published on 3 Feb 2003 by Rebecca Higgins
A Good Read - Not Quite As Good As Usual
This is a good book, maybe if the other books in the series hadn't been as brilliant as they were we would be raving about this one. Read more
Published on 30 April 2002 by Mr. A. N. Wood
a great disappointment
This is a great disappointment after her wonderful earlier novels. It starts promisingly but I got the feeling Linda Fairstein became swiftly bored with the plot and was far more... Read more
Published on 15 Feb 2002 by Gilly Schuster (gschuster@dial.pipex.com)
Not a patch on her other books.
Having read all of the other Fairstein books, I was really looking forward to this one, however I was left feeling very dissapointed with the content of this book. Read more
Published on 5 Feb 2002
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