Final Jeopardy (Alexandra Cooper Mysteries) (Alexandra Cooper)

by Linda Fairstein

This critically acclaimed, explosive thriller is a book only prosecutor Linda Fairstein could write. Patricia Cornwall knows the morgue; John Grisham knows the courtroom; but no one knows the inner workings of the D.A.'s office like Linda Fairstein, renowned for two decades as head of Manhattan Sex Crimes Unit. Now that world comes vividly to life in a brilliant debut novel of shocking realism, powerful insight, and searing suspense.

Alexandra Cooper, Manhattan's top sex crimes prosecutor, awakens one morning to shoking news: a tabloid headline announcing her own brutal murder. But the actual victim was Isabella Lascar, the Hollywood film star who sought refuge at Alex's Martha's Vineyard retreat. Was Isabella targeted by a stalker or -- mistaken for Alex -- was she in the wrong place at the wrong time? In an investigation that twists from the back alleys of lower Manhattan to the chic salons of the Upper East Side. Alex knows she'sin final jeopardy...and time is running out. She has to get into the killer's head before the killer gets to "her."

• ISBN10: 0316880086
• ISBN13: 9780316880084
• Publish Date: 4 July 1996 (first published 1 June 1996)
• Publish Status: Out of Print
• Out of Print: 31 December 2009
• Publish Country: US
• Imprint: Little, Brown & Company
• Edition: New edition
• Format: Hardcover
• Pages: 392
• Language: English

Reviews

This is the first book in the series and it's a good start. This was a great mystery book with a main character, Alex Cooper, that I really liked.

[ibeforem]

I’ve read a couple of the later books in this series, so it was nice to go back to the beginning. Some of the twists I guessed, some I didn’t. I did find myself skimming through some of the stories of cases past. I’m not sure what their purpose was, except to fill space. They didn’t tell me a whole lot about the characters or the current story.