Barbara L. reviewed on 7/9/2008 + 988 more book reviews

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..."

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