By: Linda Fairstein Publisher: Doubleday Average Rating: Binding: Hardcover Label: Doubleday Number of Items: 1 Number of Pages: 384 Publication Date: March 11, 2008 Release Date: March 11, 2008
It’s August in New York, and the only thing that’s hotter than the pavement is Manhattan D.A. Alex Cooper’s professional and personal life. Just as she’s claiming an especially gratifying victory in a rape case, she gets the call: the body of a young woman has been found in an abandoned building. The brutality of the murder is disturbing enough, but when a second body, beaten and disposed of in exactly same manner, is found off the Belt Parkway, the city’s top brass want the killer found fast, before the tabloids can start churning out ghoulish serial killer headlines.
Between dodging the bullets of the gang members who are infuriated by Alex’s most recent courtroom victory and keeping a rendezvous with a charming restaurateur, a serial killer on the loose is the last thing she needs on her plate right now. Then a third victim is found, and it becomes clear to Alex and her team that time is not on their side.
Through Alex’s peerless interrogation skills—and one big break—the search becomes focused on someone who has a twisted obsession with the military, and things grow increasingly dangerous when the chase leads to a chain of small, abandoned islands around New York harbor.
Once again Linda Fairstein brilliantly orchestrates a page-turning mix of cutting-edgelegal issuesand forensics, New York City history, and spine-tingling suspense. And at the center of it all is Alex Cooper—stunning, single-minded, accomplished, and not to be trifled with whether she’s in or out of a courtroom.
Great Book for Alex Cooper Fans!! I don't recommend it as your first Linda Fairstein novel, because you'll enjoy it more if you have background knowledge of the characters. There are nuances on Mike's side that you will not get - at all - if you don't "know" him. Start at the beginning - it's worth it! The plot itself is typical Fairstein, with lots of New York history. Frankly, the only time I've ever found that particularly interesting is when she explored the work of Edgar Allen Poe, but that's not why I read these books....the writing is good quality, the legal aspects are interesting, and the tension between Mike and Alex is so much fun!
An Outstanding Mystery and a Great Thriller too In this Linda Fairstein novel "Killer Heat" you are taken to a hot summer in New York with Manhattan District Attorney Alex Cooper. She is celebrating because she just closed her rape case. The celebration ends quick due to a phone call about the body of a woman who was beaten and raped. Then again another body shortly after also turns up murdered in the same manner, so this case becomes top priority. Time adds additional pressure to the case because the news reporters were all over it.
"Killer Heat" is a great thriller because of it's complex story mixing Alex's career as a D.A. with some of her personal life when she meets a charming restaurant owner. So she is juggling it all and then the body of a third victim turns up. All of these incidents take her to the islands around New York Harbor with a new development in the case. I love the way Fairstein mixes intriguing facts of forensic science, legal issues, and personal life battles making this novel one the is really outstanding.
Another great book by Linda Fairstein Linda Fairstein's books are always excellent. Her plots, characters, the New York City landscape continue to fascinate. I have been a fan since her first book, Final Jeopardy. Killer Heat is another great book by this very talented writer -- a superb story. I'm eagerly looking forward to her next title
Didn't hold my interest. I made the mistake of reading "Killer Heat" right after I finished the brilliant "The Killer Angels" by Michael Shaara which was awarded the 1975 Pulitzer Prize for Fiction. Needless to say, "Killer Heat" suffered sorely by comparison.
The good guy characters are too one-dimensional. Alexander Cooper is a brilliant one-person crime solving unit, Mike Chapman is a boorish detective with a golden heart, and so on and so on. Also, there was no tension buildup as I never got to know any of the victims or the killer so I really didn't care what happened to them. I found myself constantly putting the book down and not caring whether I picked it up again or not.
Fair I thought the book was "alright". This was my first book I have read of Linda Fairsteins' and I wasn't that thrilled with it..
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