She Read
Release date: July 25, 2017
Fans of Linda Fairstein’s Alexandra Cooper series will be pleased that Alex is back and starting to heal emotionally from the damage inflected after being abducted in an earlier novel. It’s been a year since the last Alex Cooper novel which had a twist at the end leaving readers hungry for Deadfall, the 19th in this series.
Deadfall picks up where the last one, Killer Look, left off, with the shooting of long time New York City DA Paul Battaglia. Alex, still on leave as a prosecutor in the DAs office, finds herself in the crosshairs of both the investigation and the killer. Even though she shouldn’t be involved in the case, she can’t stop herself and teams up with her usual cohorts to find the truth.
One of the things I like about Fairstein’s books is that you always pick up new knowledge about some New York City landmark. In Deadfall it is the Bronx Zoological Park, along with insight into the criminal world of animal trafficking and a brief history of subway cars! And, of course, there are the Final Jeopardy questions, a hallmark of the Alex Cooper novels. As always with Fairstein’s books, this a quick and absorbing read.
This book can be read as a stand alone, but there are many references to actions that took place in the last novel, so anyone new to this series might consider reading it at the very least. Then there is the long history of the main characters and their many fascinating cases, so why not start the series from the beginning?
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