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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.
2) 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
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...
4) 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
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...
6) 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...
7) 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.
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.
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...
10) 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.
11) 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...
12) 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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