Search - The Deadhouse

Okay, not my favorite

Assistant DA Alexandra Cooper is back in this page turning NY Times bestseller from legendary Manhattan sex-crimes prosecutor Linda Fairstein.

On Roosevelt Island a strip of land in NY City's East River stands an abandoned 19th century smallpox asylum, the Deadhouse, where the afflicted were shipped off to die. It's a gruesome bit of history perhaps best forgotten. But for Alex it may be the key to a shocking murder that cuts deeper than the artic cold front gripping the city. A respected university professor is dead - strngled and dumped in an elevator shaft. And while the school does damage control for anxious parents, Alex and her detective friend Mike Chapman scramble for answers, fueled by the most daunting disovery, a piece of paper found on the lifeless body of Professor Lola Dakota, that reads "the Deadhouse..."

Another msytery for that female lawyer who's part of the Special Victims unit in New York. Fairstein herself, another of those lawyers turned writer, actually began the real Special Victims Unit in New York, so she knos what she's talking about in that area. Only thing that drives me crazy is the continual references to the TV program "Jeopardy" in all her books (I never watch it), and dropping names of real restaurants, complete with names of owners, etc. (all in my neighborhood and, yeah, they're not my favorite spots to eat either). But otherwise, she usually has high interest level.

This book was good, but it left me wanting more. You really felt like you were reading a week in the life of a NYC DA

A really good read. Enjoyed this book.

Loved the book, but I thought the ending was abrupt. I wanted more....

Assistant D.A. Alexandra Cooper is back---in this page turning New York Times bestseller from legendary Manhattan sex crimes prosecutor Linda Fairstein.
A great read!

Smart, sexy, Manhattan assistant DA Alexandra Cooper--hero of Linda Fairstein's increasingly popular series--is taking her latest murder case very personally. Lola Dakota, abused wife and brilliant university professor, wouldn't cooperate when Cooper wanted to charge her ex-husband with assault. So when she's murdered, he's the logical suspect--except that he had been arrested just before the murder. So Alex needs another suspect.
Unable to protect Lola alive, Alex is determined to find the killer and bring him to justice. All she has to go on is a scrap of paper in the murdered woman's pocket with the words "The Deadhouse" on it, along with a series of numbers. Deciphering the clue leads Alex and Mike Chapman, her favorite homicide cop, to an abandoned gothic hospital on New York's Roosevelt Island, where smallpox victims went to die a century ago. Because of its history, the Deadhouse held a special attraction for Lola and for several of her university colleagues; and, as it turns out, almost all these deftly drawn minor characters had a reason to want Lola dead. Illuminating their personalities and motives gives Fairstein an opportunity to skewer the academic infighting that goes on at an elite Ivy League school.

The author's background as head of the New York district attorney's Sex Crime Unit is just one of the many assets she brings to her fast-paced, intricately plotted thrillers. What makes this one a standout is the wealth of historical detail about 19th-century New York, which adds an extra dimension of verisimilitude to an engrossing, atmospheric, and suspenseful read.
AMAZON.COM REVIEW

Very very good book! I've read it four times! :)

A better-than-average mystery with lots of interesting historical details about NYC.