The Dead-House (Alexandra Cooper Series #4) »

Hailed by Patricia Cornwell as "one of the most promising forces in crime fiction," former head of the Manhattan District Attorney's Sex Crimes Unit Linda Fairstein has hooked readers with her intense mystery series featuring assistant D.A. -- and Fairstein's alter ego -- Alex Cooper.

A professor is strangled. Lola Dakota's lifeless fingers clutch a piece of paper. On it is written: "The Deadhouse." The Deadhouse sits on a small island in the middle of the East River in New York City.

Washington Post Book World

The brooding quality of the setting, the storm-toss'd, struggle-to-the-death finale is superb.