Linda Fairstein Books In Order

Alexandra Cooper Books In Publication Order

  1. Final Jeopardy (1996)
  2. Likely To Die (1997)
  3. Cold Hit (1999)
  4. The Deadhouse (2001)
  5. The Bone Vault (2003)
  6. The Kills (2004)
  7. Entombed (2005)
  8. Death Dance (2006)
  9. Bad Blood (2007)
  10. Killer Heat (2008)
  11. Lethal Legacy (2009)
  12. Hell Gate (2010)
  13. Silent Mercy (2011)
  14. Night Watch (2012)
  15. Death Angel (2013)
  16. Terminal City (2014)
  17. Devil’s Bridge (2015)
  18. Killer Look (2016)
  19. Deadfall (2017)
  20. Blood Oath (2019)

Alexandra Cooper Short Stories/Novellas In Publication Order

  1. Surfing the Panther (With: Steve Martini) (2015)

Devlin Quick Books In Publication Order

  1. Into the Lion’s Den (2016)
  2. Digging for Trouble (2017)
  3. Secrets from the Deep (2018)

Non-Fiction Books In Publication Order

  1. Sexual Violence: Our War Against Rape (1993)

From the Files of Linda Fairstein Books In Publication Order

  1. Killer Charm: The Double Lives of Psychopaths (2012)
  2. How Serial Rapists Target Their Victims (2012)
  3. The Rape Scandal That Puts You At Risk (2012)
  4. The Five Most Dangerous Places For Women (2012)
  5. The Most Surprising Crime Zone: Your Own Home (2012)
  6. Why Some Women Lie About Rape (2012)
  7. Killer Charm and Other True Cases (2012)

Fearless Jones Books In Publication Order

  1. The Plot Thickens (With: Janet Evanovich,Lawrence Block,Nelson DeMille,Donald E Westlake,Mary Higgins Clark,Carol Higgins Clark,Nancy Pickard,Walter Mosley,Edna Buchanan,Ann Rule) (1997)
  2. Fearless Jones (By:Walter Mosley) (2001)
  3. Fear Itself (By:Walter Mosley) (2003)
  4. Fear of the Dark (By:Walter Mosley) (2006)

Anthologies In Publication Order

  1. The Plot Thickens (1997)
  2. I’d Kill For That (2004)
  3. The Best American Crime Reporting 2007 (2007)
  4. Mystery Writers of America Presents The Prosecution Rests (2009)
  5. FaceOff (2014)

Alexandra Cooper Book Covers

Alexandra Cooper Short Stories/Novellas Book Covers

Devlin Quick Book Covers

Non-Fiction Book Covers

From the Files of Linda Fairstein Book Covers

Fearless Jones Book Covers

Anthologies Book Covers

Linda Fairstein Books Overview

Final Jeopardy

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.

Likely To Die

‘Patricia Cornwell in the Big Apple,’ raved the prestigious Kirkus Reviews in its starred notice of Linda Fairstein’s best selling debut, Final Jeopardy. Now Alexandra Cooper, whose job description matches Fairstein’s own as Manhattan’s top sex crimes prosecutor, probes a devastating case of murder at a major New York, medical center. It’s 5:38 on a March morning when Alex’s phone jars her awake. Homicide detective Mike Chapman is at the scene of a sexual assault and murder. It’s a perfect case for Alex and her special skills. And it’s certain to be a high profile case because the victim was a neurosurgeon at Mid Manhattan Medical Center, the oldest and largest hospital in New York City. Dr. Gemma Dogen was found barely breathing, on the floor of her blood soaked office. It was too late to save her. In cop parlance, she was a ‘Likely To Die.’ The problems Alex’s team faces are immense, starting with too many possible suspects. Not only have Alex’s colleagues prosecuted some of the hospital’s employees and patients in the past any one of them could be the killer but the more than fifteen hundred bed complex and its medical college are connected to the Stuyvesant Psychiatric Center, and all three buildings sit on top of a maze of underground tunnels. Scores of transients now populate the tunnels, putting on white coats or scrubs to enter and roam the hospital’s corridors as if they were licensed professionals. Anybody could have been near Gemma Dogen’s office the night of the murder. While Alex and Mike and police colleague Mercer Wallace step up their search for the killer, Alex must also supervise other cases: the taxi driver who stalks an emergency room physician; a rapist who attacks a comatose young woman; a rabbi who demands a peculiar kind of service from his housekeepers. But it is the Dogen case that disturbs Alex’s dreams. The daughter of a cardiologist, Alex had always revered the medical profession. Now she begins to question her own biases. And what about the new man in her life? She met him at anelegant dinner party that is typical of her affluent Upper East Side lifestyle, but is he, too, somehow involved in this case? Policewoman Maureen Forester may discover some of the shocking answers when she volunteers to check into the hospital as a decoy with a supposed neurological problem. With Alex and Mike temporarily far away, Maureen is more vulnerable than Alex could ever have imagined. And with the killer beginning to focus on Alex, she, herself, may soon bear the tragic label ‘Likely To Die.’ A powerful behind the scenes view of the exciting, challenging life of a Manhattan sex cnmes prosecutor, Likely To Die further confirms author Linda Fairstein’s position as an international crime writing star.

Cold Hit

A chilling new Alexandra Cooper thriller from the acclaimed Manhattan Assistant D.A. who lives the gritty and glamorous life she writes. The raves are in for Linda Fairstein’s Alexandra Cooper novels. ‘Riveting authenticity,’ says Vanity Fair. ‘Grisham esque,’ says Time. ‘There is an anger and a passion in Alex Cooper that is clearly not fictional,’ says The London Times. From its dramatic opening scene when a silk clad corpse washes up from the turbulent waters at Manhattan’s northern tip to its stunning conclusion when Alexandra runs for her life, Cold Hit transports the reader behind the scenes with the cops, the criminals, the victims, and the denizens of the art world. Here is the authenticity, the vision, that only Linda Fairstein can provide. On a steamy August evening, after an exhausting day in the courtroom, Assistant District Attorney Alexandra Cooper joins her longtime pals and partners in investigation, NYPD detectives Mike Chapman and Mercer Wallace, at a somber crime scene. In her ten years as a sex crimes prosecutor, Alex has seen many victims, but few more poignant than this one, pulled from the water with her hands and feet obscenely tied to a ladder. Sleep comes uneasily after such a vision, but the knowledge that monsters walk the city’s streets, preying on the innocent, motivates Alex and her colleagues in their sometimes heartbreaking work. Perhaps this time they will be lucky. A ‘Cold Hit‘ could match DNA from the crime scene with a suspect’s DNA profile in the police database. Or is this case a more sinister kind of ‘Cold Hit‘? Who was this latest victim? From a luxurious Fifth Avenue apartment to famous midtown auction houses to the avant garde galleries of Chelsea, Alex, Mike, and Mercer hunt for a killer in a very special world where priceless art meets big money in a lethal mix. Whether it’s a missing Rembrandt, a Vermeer in need of authentication, or doors paneled with precious amber and missing since the great Na*zi art thefts, the stakes are high, the consequences potentially fatal. Illuminating and inspiring, Cold Hit takes us from the paint chipped offices of cops and D.A.s to the elegant restaurants of Alex’s privileged Upper East Side life. The contrast is striking, but it’s all part of the extraordinary world that author Linda Fairstein has brought so vividly to life in this magnificent novel of suspense.

The Deadhouse

One of the most haunting buildings in New York City, and perhaps the most dramatically beautiful, The Deadhouse sits on a small island in the middle of the East River. The abandoned structure, like the ghostly remains of a castle, plays in the imagination as a site of mystery and intrigue…
a likely place for murder. Following on the bestselling success of Cold Hit, Likely to Die, and Final Jeopardy, top Manhattan sex crimes DA Linda Fairstein brings her unique blend of authenticity and style to a mesmerizing tale of murder and deceit. It’s the holiday season but there’s little reason for cheer at one of New York’s most elite colleges. A respected professor is dead; strangled and dumped in an elevator shaft. Lola Dakota’s lifeless fingers clutch a few strands of hair, and a piece of paper in her pocket reads ‘The Deadhouse.’ What brought a distinguished academic to such a tragic end? Opportunistic murder seems unlikely as assistant DA Alexandra Cooper, working with detectives Mike Chapman and Mercer Wallace, uncovers a distressing pattern of betrayal and terror. There’s proof that Lola’s husband, Ivan, wanted her dead. He has an alibi, but could he have hired a killer? Or could one of Lola’s colleagues have erupted into unexpected violence? Some of their stories don’t quite ring true. And why did Lola have a photograph of twenty year old Charlotte Voight pinned to her office bulletin board? Charlotte left her dorm room eight months ago and vanished into the night. Is she dead? Could she and Lola have become victims of the same predator? Perhaps most puzzling of all are the words ‘The Deadhouse.’ What was Lola’s connection to this desolate place where people once endured slow and agonizing deaths? And what danger awaits Alex there or on the streets of Manhattan as she targets Lola’s killer? A richly nuanced synthesis of history and suspense, The Deadhouse showcases Linda Fairstein’s immense talent as never before.

The Bone Vault

The New York Times bestselling author and renowned former Manhattan prosecutor follows her Nero Award winning The Deadhouse with a mesmerizing new Alexandra Cooper novel set at the crossroads of big money, high culture, and murder…
The Bone Vault begins in the Metropolitan Museum of Art’s glorious Temple of Dendur, where wealthy donors have gathered to celebrate a controversial new exhibit. An uneasy mix of scholarship, showbiz, and aggressive marketing, ‘A Modern Bestiary’ will be a joint venture of the Met and the American Museum of Natural History. With its IMAX time trips and Rembrandt refrigerator magnets, the ‘Bestiary’ has raised fierce opposition from some of New York’s museum elite. Assistant DA Alexandra Cooper, off duty for the evening, observes the developing tensions with bemused interest until Met director Pierre Thibodaux pulls her aside. He needs her advice. There’s an urgent problem out at a loading dock on a New Jersey pier. A Twelfth Dynasty mummified princess, enclosed for eternity in a huge stone sarcophagus, is about to take a long voyage to Cairo as part of a routine museum exchange. But Cleopatra is missing, and in her place is the not so mummified body of a woman many centuries younger than her royal predecessor. Who is this woman with the small physique, the dark hair, and the shiny barrette? What is her connection, if any, to the rarefied world of priceless art and objects? And how and when did she become entombed in the sarcophagus? Teaming with cops Mike Chapman and Mercer Wallace, Alex must explore behind the scenes at the elegant but severe Metropolitan, travel uptown to the remote setting of the Cloisters and its medieval trove of funerary art, and on to the massive array of beasts and bones at the Museum of Natural History. Somewhere deep within the bowels of one of these great cultural centers, a killer may wait. Atmospheric, chilling, and rich with the kind of procedural authenticity that only Linda Fairstein can provide, The Bone Vault is a page turning tour de force from one of crime writing’s brightest stars.

The Kills

From New York Times bestselling author and former top prosecutor Linda Fairstein comes an electrifying new thriller rich with the riveting behind the scenes authenticity that only she can offer…
. It’s going to be a tough trial. Manhattan sex crimes prosecutor Alexandra Cooper’s case, involving an attack on investment banker Paige Vallis, would be difficult to prove even without the latest development it seems that Paige has something to hide. Most of her story is clear. She’d had dinner with New York consultant Andrew Tripping three times before the March evening when she accepted his invitation to accompany him to his apartment. But what occurred that night? Why didn’t she leave the apartment when he started to act strangely? What about Tripping’s little boy, Dulles? What happened to the child that fateful evening? And who is the strange man whose appearance in the courtroom seems to terrify Paige? While Alex’s police detective friend Mercer Wallace helps her learn more of the sad details behind the increasingly puzzling rape case, colleague Mike Chapman is uptown in a decaying Harlem brownstone where eighty two year old McQueen Ransome has been murdered, her apartment ransacked. What could this impoverished, elderly woman have possessed that could have inspired such violence? Photographs on the wall suggest that ‘Queenie’ was once a beautiful and voluptuous young woman who traveled to faraway places. Could there be a clue to her murder in her exotic background? Her murder will be only the first. Others follow, as the tragic strands of the Paige Vallis and McQueen Ransome cases begin to converge in a poignant alliance of two women from very different worlds. Faced with formidable personal and professional choices, Alex must learn the old lesson that appearances can deceive, even as she heads for a showdown in which her wits and her courage will be tested as never before. With its winning combination of courtroom drama, historical detail, and the intriguing lore of a rare object whose fabled provenance provides a glistening thread through the story, The Kills is powerful, stylish writing from a hugely appealing crime writing star.

Entombed

New York Times bestselling author and famed former Manhattan prosecutor Linda Fairstein delivers a chilling Alexandra Cooper thriller, in which Alex matches wits with the master of detective fiction himself Edgar Allan Poe…
Workers demolishing a nineteenth century brownstone where Poe once lived discover a human skeleton standing Entombed behind a brick wall. When assistant district attorney and sex crimes prosecutor Alexandra Cooper hears about the case, it strikes her as a classic scene from Poe’s fiction except that forensic evidence shows this young woman died within the last twenty five years…
Meanwhile, Alex is furious at the news that an old nemesis may be preying on women once again. The Silk Stocking Rapist first struck four years ago, leaving a string of victims in his wake, then abruptly disappeared before Alex and the NYPD could identify him. Now, with improved forensic technology and a national DNA databank to draw from, a fresh attack may give Alex a new lease on many old crimes, just in time to beat the statute of limitations. Masterful and exhilarating, this heady thriller combines dramatic New York City lore and the macabre world of Edgar Allan Poe with the authentic legal and forensic detail that only Linda Fairstein can offer. Entombed is electrifying crime writing at its very best.

Death Dance

New York Times bestselling author Linda Fairstein takes readers behind the scenes of New York City’s theater world from Lincoln Center to the lights of Broadway in a riveting new novel, rich with her trademark blend of cutting edge legal issues, skillful detective work, and heart stopping suspense.

Teaming up with longtime friends NYPD’s Mike Chapman and Mercer Wallace Assistant DA Alex Cooper investigates the disappearance of world famous dancer Natalya Galinova, who has suddenly vanished backstage at Lincoln Center’s Metropolitan Opera House during a performance.

The three colleagues are soon drawn into the machinations of New York City’s secretive theatrical community, where ambition takes many forms, including those most deadly. Among Galinova’s lovers is Joe Berk, the colorful, strong willed boss of the Berk Organization, one of four family companies that own all the legitimate theaters on Broadway. The aging ballerina was using Berk to help revive her career at the time of her disappearance.

Cooper, Chapman, and Wallace go underground and backstage at the Met, explore Berk’s unusual apartment on top of the Belasco Theatre with its rumored ghostly resident, and then discover bizarre circumstances at City Center, which has a peculiar history not one of them knew about until now.

Within the glamorous but sordid inner sanctums of the Broadway elite, the team confronts the ruthless power brokers who control both the stars and the stages where they appear. They meet Joe’s niece Mona Berk, who is mounting a vicious campaign to extract her share of the family fortune, and stunning starlet Lucy DeVore, whose beauty may be her fatal undoing. Chet Dobbis is the artistic director of the Metropolitan Opera, and therefore privy to the most scandalous exploits among its famous inhabitants. He also knows every inch of the labyrinthine building into which the ballerina disappeared…

Meanwhile, Alex is working on a very different case, using a creative technique to nab a physician who has been drugging women in order to assault them. As Dr. Selim Sengor eludes capture, Alex must navigate the new investigative world of DFSA drug facilitated sexual assault intent on proving him guilty.

Complicating her quest is the explosive legal and ethical dilemma of using the existing DNA databank to solve new cases. Can Alex convince a judge to let her prosecute a man for a violent crime using DNA that was collected for a prior case in which he was never charged? Or do the suspect’s civil rights prevent law enforcement from keeping his DNA on file to be used against him at any future time?

Death Dance is a spellbinding thriller combining a former prosecutor’s fresh insight into hot button legal issues with the unique history and spectacle of New York theater, and its shocking twists make this novel Linda Fairstein’s most chilling adventure yet.

Bad Blood

Assistant D.A. Alexandra Cooper is deeply involved in a complicated, high profile homicide case against defendant Brendan Quillian, a prominent young businessman charged with the brutal strangulation of his beautiful young wife. His conviction is not a certainty: Quillian was conveniently out of town on the day of the killing, and his defense attorney seems to be one step ahead of Cooper’s effort to prove Quillian paid a hit man to commit the crime. Halfway through the trial, a major catastrophe alters the course of Cooper’s case. A cataclysmic explosion rips through New York City’s Water Tunnel 3, a Spectacular feat of modern engineering that will be completed years in the future. Was the blast caused by terrorism? Political retribution? Or was it merely an accident? Cooper is quickly drawn into the tragedy when she discovers a strange connection linking Brendan Quillian to the tunnel workers killed in the explosion. Told with Linda Fairstein’s trademark blend of brilliant detective work, cutting edge forensics, and electrifying courtroom drama, Bad Blood is packed with the twists and turns that never fail to thrill her legions of devoted fans.

Killer Heat

It’s August in New York, and the only thing that s hotter than the pavement is Manhattan D.A. Alex Cooper s professional and personal life. Just as she s claiming an especially gratifying victory in a rape case, she gets the call: the body of a young woman has been found in an abandoned building. The brutality of the murder is disturbing enough, but when a second body, beaten and disposed of in exactly same manner, is found off the Belt Parkway, the city s top brass want the killer found fast, before the tabloids can start churning out ghoulish serial killer headlines.

Between dodging the bullets of the gang members who are infuriated by Alex s most recent courtroom victory and keeping a rendezvous with a charming restaurateur, a serial killer on the loose is the last thing she needs on her plate right now. Then a third victim is found, and it becomes clear to Alex and her team that time is not on their side.

Through Alex s peerless interrogation skills and one big break the search becomes focused on someone who has a twisted obsession with the military, and things grow increasingly dangerous when the chase leads to a chain of small, abandoned islands around New York harbor.

Once again Linda Fairstein brilliantly orchestrates a page turning mix of cutting edge legal issues and forensics, New York City history, and spine tingling suspense. And at the center of it all is Alex Cooper stunning, single minded, accomplished, and not to be trifled with whether she s in or out of a courtroom.

Lethal Legacy

In Linda Fairstein’s outstanding new novel, the New York Public Library houses dazzling treasures and deadly secrets.

When Assistant District Attorney Alex Cooper is summoned to Tina Barr s apartment on Manhattan s Upper East Side, she finds a neighbor convinced that the young woman was assaulted. But the terrified victim, a conservator of rare books and maps, refuses to cooperate with investigators. Then another woman is found murdered in that same apartment with an extremely valuable book, believed to have been stolen. As Alex pursues the murderer, she is drawn into the strange and privileged world of the Hunt family, major benefactors of the New York Public Library and passionate rare book collectors.

Eventually Alex connects their internal family rivalries to a priceless edition of Alice in Wonderland, which also contains the world s oldest map. Would one of the well bred Hunts be willing to kill for the treasures? The search for the answer takes Alex and her team on a breathtaking chase from Manhattan s grandest apartments to the secret tunnels and chambers of the New York Public Library, and finally to a nineteenth century underground vault. There, in the pitch black darkness, Alex comes face to face with the killer who values money more than life.

Featuring a cast of elite, erudite, and downright eccentric characters, and a complex trail of clues that will have you guessing until the final pages, Lethal Legacy is Linda Fairstein s most beguiling thriller yet.

Hell Gate

Head of the Sex Crimes Unit of the district attorney’s office in Manhattan for decades, Linda Fairstein is America’s most visible legal expert on sexual assault and domestic violence which is why she writes some of the most compelling crime thrillers of our time and why her Alexandra Cooper series has been topping bestseller list for more than a decade. Fans turn to Fairstein for ripped from the headline crimes, cutting edge investigations, and vindication for victims. Linda Fairstein brings readers inside a world of which they can’t get enough, but one they hope to never see in real life. And for her twelfth novel, Fairstein takes Alexandra Cooper inside a world she’d rather not see. New York City politics have always been filled with intrigue and behind the scenes deals. In Hell Gate, Alex finds her attention torn between investigating a shipwreck that has contraband cargo human cargo and the political sex scandal of a promising New York congressman now fallen from grace. When Alex discovers that a woman from the wreck and the congressman’s lover have the same rose tattoo the brand of a ‘snakehead’, a master of a human trafficking operation it dawns on her that these cases aren’t as unrelated as they seem and that the entire political landscape of New York City could hang in the balance of her investigation. As Alex looks on at the nameless victims in the morgue, she realizes she’s looking at the present day face of New York’s long, dark tradition of human trafficking a tradition that began hundreds of years ago with slave trade from Africa, now a multimillion dollar industry that will stop at no cost, even if that cost is Alex’s life.

Silent Mercy

In the latest thriller in Linda Fairstein’s bestselling series, Alex Cooper dives deep into the byzantine, sinister world of New York City’s powerful religious institutions. It’s the middle of the night. Prosecutor Alexandra Cooper is called to Harlem’s Mount Neboh Baptist Church, a beautiful house of worship originally built as a synagogue. But the crowd gathered there isn’t interested in architecture, or even prayer. They’ve come for the same reason Alex has: to find out why the body of a young woman has been decapitated, set on fire, and left burning on the church steps. The only identifiable artifact on the charred remains is the imprint of a Star of David necklace seared into the victim’s flesh. Alex wonders if the fire was meant to destroy this woman’s body, or to draw attention to it. Her fears are confirmed days later, when a second corpse is found at a cathedral in Little Italy. The killings look like serial hate crimes, but the apparent differences in the victims’ beliefs seem to eliminate a religious motive. Convinced that another young woman is bound to die, Alex mines the depths of Manhattan’s many houses of worship to find a connection between the victims and in the process uncovers a terrible and perilous truth that takes her far beyond the scope of her investigation, and directly into the path of terrible danger.

Sexual Violence: Our War Against Rape

The Chief of New York’s Sex Crimes Prosecution Unit examines society’s sexual attitudes, reflects on sexual myths, and traces the evolution of rape laws.First serial, Glamour & Cosmopolitan. Tour.

The Plot Thickens (With: Janet Evanovich,Lawrence Block,Nelson DeMille,Donald E Westlake,Mary Higgins Clark,Carol Higgins Clark,Nancy Pickard,Walter Mosley,Edna Buchanan,Ann Rule)

Joining together for a good cause brings out the best in today’s top mystery and suspense writers! For this marvelously entertaining anthology, these outstanding contributors rose to a unique literary challenge: each penned a tale that ingeniously features a thick fog, a thick book, and a thick steak. The result is a collection of wonderfully imaginative tales that both chill the spine and warm the heart: proceeds from The Plot Thickens will help bring the gift of reading to millions of disadvantaged Americans.

Fearless Jones (By:Walter Mosley)

Penzler Pick, June 2001: Those of us who have been waiting for Walter Mosley to return to mystery writing and there are many of us have cause to rejoice. Not only has Mosley written a mystery, he is introducing a new character who could turn out to be as popular as Easy Rawlins. Fearless Jones has a lot in common with Easy, but he also has some characteristics reminiscent of Socrates Fortlow, the ‘hero’ of Always Outnumbered, Always Outgunned. When the story begins, the reader is transported to the Los Angeles of the 1950s, a dangerous place and time for a black man. But Paris Minton seems to have beaten the odds. He owns a moderately successful and very satisfying business a used book store. He spends the time he’s not in the store scouring libraries for discarded books and selling them in just enough quantity to be independent and happy. Yes, he is visited on a regular basis by members of the LAPD who want him to prove to them that he did not steal the books, but that is a small price to pay for independence. Minton’s peaceful life is interrupted one day when a beautiful woman walks into his store and asks for the Reverend William Grove. In no time flat, Paris has been beaten into unconsciousness by a man following her and has been rewarded by the woman with sex. The lovely Elana Love is obviously trouble, but Paris jumps in feet first and, as a consequence, his store is burned to the ground. It is obviously time to call in Fearless Jones, a man well named. Jones is afraid of nothing, but there is a little matter to be taken care of before he can help. He’s in jail and Paris must raise bail to get him out. Once he does that, the pair embark on a wild ride through Los Angeles on behalf of Elana Love. As always, Mosley depicts the hard boiled L.A. in a powerful and distinctive way, and we can only hope that this is the first of a series. Otto Penzler

Fear Itself (By:Walter Mosley)

Paris Minton doesn’t want any trouble. He minds his used bookstore and his own business. But in 1950s Los Angeles, sometimes trouble finds him, no matter how hard he tries to avoid it. When the nephew of the wealthiest woman in L.A. is missing and wanted for murder, she has to get involved no matter if she can’t stand him. What will her church think? She hires Jefferson T. Hill, a former sheriff of Dawson, Texas, and a tough customer, to track him down and prove his innocence. When Hill goes missing too, she tricks his friend Fearless Jones and Paris Minton into picking up the case. Paris steps inside the world of the black bourgeoisie, and it turns out to be filled with deceit and corruption. It takes everything he has just to stay alive through a case filled with twists and turns and dead ends like he never imagined. Written with the voice and vision that have made Walter Mosley one of the most entertaining writers in America, FEAR ITSELF marks the return of a master at the top of his form.

Fear of the Dark (By:Walter Mosley)

Fearless Jones and Paris Minton, stars of the bestsellers Fearless Jones and Fear Itself, return in a fast paced thriller about family and revenge. For Paris Minton, a knock on his door is often the first sign of trouble. So when he finds his lowlife cousin, Ulysses S. Grant, or Useless, on the other side of his front door, Paris keeps it firmly closed. With family like Useless, who needs enemies? Yet trouble always finds an open window, and when Useless’s mother, Three Hearts, shows up to look for her son, Paris has no choice but to track down his wayward cousin. Turns out that Useless is involved in some high stakes blackmailing. Now, he and a briefcase full of money and incriminating photos are missing, and Paris is not the only one looking for him. Paris enlists the help of his invincible friend Fearless Jones, but mysterious women, desperate blackmail victims, and cheating business partners are all they encounter not to mention the dead bodies found along the way. With the sheer nerve plotting and brilliant characterizations that have made him one of the great stars of crime fiction, Fear of the Dark is masterful Mosley.

I’d Kill For That

New York Times bestselling author Jennifer Crusie teams up with USA Today bestselling author Bob Mayer to write a sizzling, high octane romantic adventure about a straight talking woman and a straight shooting man
Lucy Armstrong is a director of television commercials who’s just been recruited to finish a four day action movie shoot. But she arrives on the set to discover that the directing staff has quit, the make up artist is suicidal, the stars are egomaniacs, the stunt director is her ex husband, and the lead actor has just acquired as an advisor a Green Beret who has the aggravating habit of always being right.

Green Beret Captain JT Wilder had thought that hiring on as a military consultant for a movie star was a good deal: easy money and easier starlets. Instead he has to babysit a bumbling comedian, dodge low flying helicopters, and resist his attraction to a director who bears a distracting resemblance to Wonder Woman. Then the CIA calls and he realizes that somebody is taking shooting a movie much too literally.
Full of suspense and humor, non stop action and fast paced dialogue, Don’t Look Down is the perfect blend of male and female, adventure and romance, Mayer and Crusie.

The Best American Crime Reporting 2007

Thieves, liars, killers, and conspirators it’s a criminal world out there, and someone has got to write about it. An eclectic collection of the year’s best reportage, The Best American Crime Reporting 2007 brings together the murderers and muscle men, the masterminds, and the mysteries and missteps that make for brilliant stories, told by the aces of the true crime genre. This latest addition to the highly acclaimed series features guest editor Linda Fairstein, the bestselling crime novelist and former chief prosecutor of the Manhattan District Attorney’s Office’s pioneering Special Victims’ Unit.

Mystery Writers of America Presents The Prosecution Rests

From the Salem witch trials to Depression era Chicago, from the exclusive country clubs of the wealthy to the depths of today’s toughest ghettos, this riveting collection traces the triumphs, defeats, and temptations of two opposing sides: those sworn to defend the accused, and those tasked with prosecuting them. They are the stories of lawyers under pressure, of criminals facing the needle, and of the heartbroken families of both the victim and the defendant who hope for justice from the back of the courtroom, and who sometimes take it into their own hands. This tantalizing collection proves that after the crime is over, the real drama begins.

In James Grippando’s ‘Death, Cheated,’ a lawyer defends his ex girlfriend in a case against the investors who bet $1.5 million on her death. In Barbara Parker’s ‘A Clerk’s Life,’ a disillusioned clerk at a corporate law firm suspects the worst of his colleagues when one of the firm’s employees is murdered. In Phyllis Cohen’s ‘Designer Justice,’ a cold blooded killer thinks he’s lucked out when he lands a high priced lawyer as his appointed attorney, only to learn that there are worse fates than being found guilty.

Filled with shocking twists, double crosses, and edge of your seat suspense, this page turning collection is not to be missed.

Related Authors

Leave a Comment