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Author
Series
Publisher
Scribner
Pub. Date
c2003
Physical Desc
386 p. ; 25 cm.
Language
English
Description
Assistant district attorney Alexandra Cooper embarks on a search through New York's cultural centers for a killer when a mummified princess from the Twelfth Dynasty which is supposed to be part of a controversial exhibit at the Metropolitan Museum of Art goes missing and its sarcophagus is filled instead with the much more recent corpse of an unidentified young woman.
Author
Series
Publisher
Doubleday
Pub. Date
c2008
Physical Desc
370 p. : map ; 25 cm.
Language
English
Description
Manhattan D.A. Alex Cooper investigates the murders of three victims while dodging infuriated gang members packing heat. Her interrogation skills lead to someone with a twisted obsession concerning the military, and things grow increasingly dangerous when the chase leads to a chain of small, abandoned islands around New York harbor.
3) The kills
Author
Series
Publisher
Pocket Star Books
Pub. Date
2005
Physical Desc
463, [37] p. ; 18 cm.
Language
English
Description
Manhattan sex-crimes prosecutor Alexandra Cooper's case against Andrew Tripping, charged with the rape of investment banker Paige Vallis, is in trouble when she is handed a second case: the murder of a former Harlem Renaissance dancer, Queenie Ransome. Queenie was also a one-time mistress to King Farouk of Egypt, and reputedly fled the palace with handfuls of jewels. And as Alexandra begins untangling Queenie's dangerous, complex past, the threads...
Author
Series
Publisher
Pocket Star Books
Pub. Date
1998
Physical Desc
418 p. ; 18 cm.
Language
English
Description
A neurosurgeon is sexually assaulted, stabbed and left for dead in her office at the labyrinthine Mid-Manhattan Medical Centre. The police designate her Likely to Die. Alexandra Cooper, head of the district's sex crimes unit, assembles a task force to investigate but finds herself hindered at every turn. Not only has her office prosecuted some of the vast hospital's patients and staff before but the building itself compounds the problem. A vast complex...
Author
Series
Publisher
Scribner
Pub. Date
c2001
Physical Desc
414 p. : map ; 25 cm.
Language
English
Description
During the holiday season, Lola Dakota, a respected professor from one of New York's most elite colleges is strangled and dumped in an elevator shaft. A piece of paper in her pocket reads "The Deadhouse." Assistant DA Alexandra Cooper uncovers a distressing pattern of betrayal and terror while dealing with the case.
6) Killer look
Author
Series
Alexandra Cooper mysteries volume 18
Publisher
Dutton
Pub. Date
[2016]
Physical Desc
383 p. : map ; 24 cm.
Language
English
Description
New York City is one of the fashion capitals of the world, well-known for its glamour and style. Nowhere is this more apparent than on the runway, where American haute couture continually astounds with its creativity, daring, and innovation in the name of beauty. Yet high fashion means high stakes, as Alex Cooper quickly discovers when businessman and designer Wolf Savage is found dead in an apparent suicide, mere days before the biggest show of his...
Author
Series
Publisher
Dutton
Pub. Date
2011
Physical Desc
387 p. : map ; 24 cm.
Language
English
Description
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...
8) Night watch
Author
Series
Publisher
Dutton
Pub. Date
c2012
Physical Desc
402 p. : map ; 24 cm.
Language
English
Description
Forty-eight hours after Alexandra Cooper arrives in France to visit her boyfriend and famed restaurateur, Luc Rouget, her vacation in paradise is cut short when a young woman from the village is found murdered. The only evidence discovered on the body is one of Luc's matchboxes promoting his new restaurant in New York. But before the investigation begins, Alex is summoned back to New York to handle a high profile case. Mohammed Gil-Darsin, the distinguished...
Author
Series
Publisher
Dutton
Pub. Date
2010
Physical Desc
382 p. : map ; 24 cm.
Language
English
Description
New York City politics have always been filled with intrigue and shady deals. Assistant DA Alex Cooper and her NYPD colleagues find themselves investigating a shipwreck involving human cargo -- illegally trafficked immigrants -- at the same time a sex scandal threatens the career of a promising young congressman. When Alex discovers that a young woman who died in the wreck and the congressman's murdered lover have the same tattoo -- the brand of the...
Author
Series
Alexandra Cooper mysteries volume 11
Publisher
Doubleday
Pub. Date
2008
Physical Desc
372 p. : map ; 25 cm.
Language
English
Description
When Assistant District Attorney Alex Cooper is summoned to Tina Barrś apartment on Manhattanś 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...
11) Devil's bridge
Author
Series
Publisher
Dutton, an imprint of Penguin Random House LLC
Pub. Date
[2015]
Physical Desc
373 pages : map ; 24 cm.
Language
English
Description
The Manhattan waterfront is one of New York City's most magnificent vistas, boasting both the majestic Statue of Liberty and the busy George Washington Bridge. But Detective Mike Chapman is about to become far too well acquainted with the dangerous side of the Hudson river and its islands when he takes on his most personal case yet: the disappearance of Alex Cooper. Coop is missing -- but there are so many leads and terrifying complications: scores...
12) Terminal city
Author
Series
Publisher
Dutton
Pub. Date
2014.
Physical Desc
379 pages : map ; 25 cm.
Language
English
Description
From the world’s largest Tiffany clock decorating the 42nd Street entrance to its spectacular main concourse, Grand Central has been a symbol of beauty and innovation in New York City for more than one hundred years. But “the world’s loveliest station” is hiding more than just an underground train system. When the body of a young woman is found in the tower suite of the Waldorf Astoria — one of the most prestigious hotels in Manhattan —...
13) Entombed
Author
Series
Publisher
Scribner
Pub. Date
c2005
Physical Desc
400 p. ; 24 cm.
Language
English
Description
It was a crime scene Edgar Allan Poe himself could have conjured, only it was all too real: workers demolishing a nineteenth-century Greenwich Village brownstone where Poe once lived unearthed the skeleton of a young woman -- buried standing upright behind a brick wall. Manhattan Assistant D.A. Alexandra Cooper takes on the gruesome case while in pursuit of the Silk Stocking Rapist, who is terrorizing the Upper East Side. But Alex discovers that one...
14) Bad blood
Author
Series
Publisher
Scibner
Pub. Date
c2007
Physical Desc
400 p. ; 25 cm.
Language
English
Description
Assistant DA Cooper is drawn into the case of a businessman charged with murdering his young wife, and she finds the complexities of the crime overlap with an explosion at a city project designed to create a huge new underground water tunnel.
15) Death dance
Author
Series
Publisher
Simon & Schuster
Pub. Date
c2006
Physical Desc
402 p. ; 25 cm.
Language
English
Description
A mystery involving a ballerina missing from Lincoln Center's Metropolitan Opera House, a physician suspected of drugging and sexually assaulting women, and a man linked to a violent crime through a DNA sample taken for a previous incident for which he was not charged. Assistant D.A. Alex Cooper has her hands full.
16) Death angel
Author
Series
Publisher
Dutton
Pub. Date
2013
Physical Desc
369 pages : map ; 24 cm
Language
English
Description
When the body of a young woman is discovered in Central Park, the clock begins ticking for Assistant DA Alex Cooper and Detectives Mike Chapman and Mercer Wallace to find the killer who has breached this haven in the middle of New York City. Is the body found in the lake, under the unseeing gaze of the Bethesda angel, the first victim of a deranged psychopath, or is the case connected to other missing girls and women in years past whose remains have...
17) Cold hit
Author
Series
Publisher
Scribner
Pub. Date
c1999
Physical Desc
413 p. ; 25 cm.
Language
English
Description
With aplomb, style and sharp compassion for her "clients" Coop again unravels the truth behind murder in partnership with homicide detectives Mike Chapman and Mercer Wallace. The victim is Deni Caxton, third wife to the heir of a steel baron and a leading New York art dealer in her own right. As Coop, Chapman and Mercer investigate her brutal killing they strip away the elegant and refined façade of her marriage and the international art world to...
18) Deadfall
Author
Series
Publisher
Dutton
Pub. Date
[2017]
Physical Desc
385 pages ; 24 cm
Language
English
Description
A wild heart beats within New York City. Amid concrete and skyscrapers, the Wildlife Conservation Society works to preserve and protect the animal kingdom both within and beyond the borders of the five boroughs. But dangerous creatures don't always have claws and fangs, as Assistant DA Alexandra Cooper and NYPD detectives Mike Chapman and Mercer Wallace know all too well. Predators lurk close to home, and in the aftermath of the shocking assassination...
19) Final jeopardy
Author
Series
Publisher
Scribner
Pub. Date
c1996
Physical Desc
279 p. ; 22 cm.
Language
English
Description
"I sat on my living room sofa at five o'clock in the morning with a copy of the mock-up of the front of the day's New York Post in my hand, looking at my own obituary." Alexandra Cooper, Assistant DA in New York, had lent her retreat in Martha's Vineyard to a Hollywood star. When a woman is found murdered at the wheels of Alex's car in her own driveway, the police assume it is her. When it turns out to be the house guest, a snake pit of possibilities...
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