Book description
When Assistant District Attorney Alexandra Cooper is summoned to Tina
Barr's apartment on Manhattan's Upper East Side, she finds a neighbour
convinced that the young woman has been assaulted. But the terrified
victim, a conservator of rare books and maps, denies that and refuses to
co-operate with Alex and the police investigators. Tina disappears, and
then another woman is found murdered in the same apartment, with an
extremely valuable book at her side. The book has probably been stolen,
but from whom and how? Pursuing the murderer Alex is drawn into the
strange and privileged world of rich and secretive book collectors,
where avarice and greed is as strong an inheritance as wealth... In a
beguiling mix and history and suspense Linda Fairstein takes readers on
a breath-taking ride through collections of beautiful first editions,
supposedly 'lost' atlases, and deep into the hidden rooms and tunnels of
the great New York Public Library. For three decades, Linda Fairstein
served in the office of the New York County District Attorney, where she
was Chief of the Sex Crimes Prosecution Unit. In 2010 she was presented
with the Silver Bullet Award from the International Thriller Writers.
