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Cold Hit (Alexandra Cooper Series) (Paperback)

by Linda Fairstein (Author)
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  • Paperback: 416 pages
  • Publisher: Sphere (9 Jun 2005)
  • Language English
  • ISBN-10: 0751523208
  • ISBN-13: 978-0751523201
  • Product Dimensions: 17.6 x 10.6 x 3 cm
  • Average Customer Review: 4.0 out of 5 stars See all reviews (2 customer reviews)
  • Amazon.co.uk Sales Rank: 55,016 in Books (See Bestsellers in Books)

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Amazon.co.uk Review
When Linda Fairstein describes the route which 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 in Final Jeopardy and Likely to Die Fairstein surrounds her somewhat unlikely heroine (a beautiful 35-year-old blonde with an Ivy League education, a house in Martha's Vineyard and an affection for betting on quiz show answers at cop bars) with a wealth of procedural detail. The "cold hit" of the title, for example, refers to a computer match between DNA samples left by a rapist in a recent case with evidence from an older crime.

With her trusty cop sidekicks Mike Chapman (who eats everything in sight and drops wisecracks like crumbs) and Mercer Wallace (who is big 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 videos 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 the entertainment value is very high. --Dick Adler --This text refers to the Hardcover edition.

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'If it is authenticity you demand, Final Jeopardy has got it in spades...Fairstein delivers the other ingredients, too: engaging characters, an intelligent story full of twists and terrific tension' Marcel Berlins, The Times

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5.0 out of 5 stars Excellent, reminiscent of early Cornwell, 29 Dec 2000
I picked this book up purely from the Cornwell quote on the front cover. Being a huge fan of the early Scarpetta novels - they have gone a bit downhill since 'Cruel & Unusual' - in my opinion, I would recommend this to anyone of similar taste. First class plot, excellent characters, very similar in fact to the Scarpetta/Marino partnership. What made this book stand out was it's freshness. The latest Scrapetta left me, well, bored to be honest - This on the otherhand left me excited about Ms Coopers next adventure.
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7 of 8 people found the following review helpful:
3.0 out of 5 stars A good thriller, 10 Feb 2003
I read this book after having read the first book of the series "Final Jeopardy". Having loved the first one I was a bit dissapointed by this one which is the third in the Alex Cooper series. The plot did not run as smoothly as in "Final Jeopardy" and the characters were a bit on the thin side. Another thing which I had much appreciated in the first book were the real life prosecutor stories which accompanied the plot; these lacked of consistency as well as the rest of the story. Overall it is still a fairly good thriller.
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