Book description
Alexandra Cooper has a tough case to prosecute. Brendan Quillan, a
wealthy businessman from the Upper East Side, has been charged with
hiring an assassin to kill his wife, but the evidence is flimsy and the
defendant has one of the most successful defence lawyers on his side.
Then an explosion kills Quillan's brother, one of the construction
workers in a tunnel being built to secure Manhattan's water supply. The
blast isn't a terrorist act, nor is it an accident, but it looks as
though Duke Quillan was the target. And none of the team investigating
the murder had come across any hint that Brendan had a brother, never
mind one so far on the other side of the tracks. With another case to
solve, Alex, together with Detectives Chapman and Mercer, discover that
Quillan's upbringing is very different from what they'd first assumed,
and in the cupboard of his estranged family there are many skeletons,
not all of them metaphorical. In a cliff-hanging whodunnit, Linda
Fairstein takes the reader on a roller-coaster ride through New York and
deep beneath its streets, to a conclusion which is as surprising as it
is frightening. Linda was Assistant DA in Manhattan, specialising in
the prosecution of sex crimes. Now a consultant, she works with a number
of charities supporting the victims of sexual and domestic abuse. She
and her husband divide their time between Manhattan and Martha's
Vineyard.
