Entombed - Alex Cooper, Bk 7 Author:Linda Fairstein Workers demolishing a nineteenth-century brownstone where Edgar Allan Poe once lived discover a human skeleton entombed -- standing -- behind a brick wall. When sex crimes prosecutor Alexandra Cooper hears about the case, it strikes her as a classic Poe scene...except that forensic evidence shows that this young woman died within the last twenty... more »-five years. Meanwhile, Alex's old nemesis the Silk Stocking Rapist is once again terrorizing Manhattan's Upper East Side. The attacks soon escalate to murder, and the search leads Alex and detectives Mercer Wallace and Mike Chapman to the city's stunning Bronx Botanical Gardens. There, an enigmatic librarian presides over the Raven Society, a group devoted to the work of Poe. In exploring the fabled writer's tormented life for clues, Alex will cross paths with a cunning killer and face some of the greatest challenges of her career. Entombed is masterful, exhilarating crime fiction from one of crime writing's most dazzling stars.« less
It's been a long time since I read a book by this author. Yes, it's well written but I thought the plot has been overused. Alexandra Cooper, as usual, finds herself coping with a killer who intends to do away with her but, of course, she survives. Finding herself buried beneath a floor, a coworker rescues her and the second time she manages to overpower the killer herself.
I liked the links to Poe and the quotes so very much. They added much to the tale, more than the story itself, and whetted my appetite to read more of Poe, returning both to his poetry and his short stories.
i really like this series of books. It doesn't really have to read in order like so many
have to but it does help with character building. Theplots and subject matter are always spellbinding plus I've yet to know "wo done it" until the very end.
Workers demolishing a 19th century brownstone where Poe once lived discover a human skeleton standing-entombed-behind a brick wall. Linda Fairstein delivers a chilling new Alexandra Cooper thriller in which Alex matches wits with the master of detective fiction himself-Edgar Allen Poe....
