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    The Deadhouse
    The Deadhouse
    The Deadhouse
    Audiobook12 hours

    The Deadhouse

    Written by Linda Fairstein

    Narrated by Melissa Hughes

    3.5/5

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    Assistant D.A. Alexandra Cooper is back -- in this page-turning New York Times bestseller from legendary Manhattan sex-crimes prosecutor Linda Fairstein.
    On Roosevelt Island, a strip of land in New York City's East River, stands an abandoned 19th century smallpox asylum, "The Deadhouse," where the afflicted were shipped off to die. It's a gruesome bit of history perhaps best forgotten. But for Alexandra Cooper, it may be the key to a shocking murder that cuts deeper than the arctic cold front gripping the city. A respected university professor is dead -- strangled and dumped in an elevator shaft. And while the school does damage control for anxious parents, Cooper and her close detective friend Mike Chapman scramble for answers, fueled by the most daunting discovery: a piece of paper, found on the lifeless body of Professor Lola Dakota, that reads The Deadhouse....
    LanguageEnglish
    PublisherSimon & Schuster Audio
    Release dateAug 14, 2012
    ISBN9781442359147
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    Linda Fairstein

    Linda Fairstein was chief of the Sex Crimes Unit of the district attorney's office in Manhattan for more than two decades and is America's foremost legal expert on sexual assault and domestic violence. Her Alexandra Cooper novels are international bestsellers and have been translated into more than a dozen languages. She lives in Manhattan and on Martha's Vineyard.

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    • 2/5
      Stupid book - not even good trash. I didn't like the writing, the plot, or the main character. I finished it, but hardly know why. I won't be reading anything else by this author.
    • 3/5
      This is the fourth book in the series and like the third book, this was just ok. I still prefer the first two books.
    • 3/5
      I definitely don’t like this main character and I’m already tired of her love life issues. I find her extremely self-centered but it seems be validated because all the supporting characters jump to every need. I would like to learn more about Alexandra’s family to include her dad and brothers.

      Now onto the story, I really liked this story and the weaving of some New York history into the plot was fantastic. The suspect pool was huge and the author did a great job of intermingling some great subplots into the story. Another item I enjoyed was that the victim was not necessarily likeable but the author still had you caring about who murdered her.

      As usual I really enjoy Mike and Mercer but the few interactions of all three were sorely missed in this book. This audiobook does have some of the worst transition music ever though. I know this is short but there really isn’t much else that stuck out to me in this story.
    • 3/5
      Catching up with some of Alexandra Cooper's earlier cases. This one is mostly Alex and her Jeopardy playing detective working together because their partaner, Mercer is recovering from a bullet wound. A college professor is murder and no one at the college really seemed interested except in finding her research work. A lot of the action takes place on an island off of Manhatan that used to house convicts and believed to have buried treasure.
    • 4/5
      We get a lot of NYC history in The Deadhouse. Plus a huge helping of abandoned places. I LOVE abandoned anything. Houses. Hospitals. Schools. Mansions. Whatever. I this one we get an abandoned and demolished prison, a smallpox hospital and creepy laboratory; all in NYC on Roosevelt Island which is in the East River. The pacing is a bit better on this one; battling rival District Attorneys and academics to solve the mystery of a murdered professor whom Alex couldn’t convince to prosecute her abusing husband. I guess that’s why Alex is involved in this one. It still irks me when she gets involved in a straight up murder that has little or nothing to do with a sex crime.So why do I keep reading them? They’re cozy. Comforting. I appreciate and am interested in the NY history in them. The world of Alexandra Cooper is one to be envied. She loves her job and is very good at it. She has the most excellent friends who would do anything for her (although in these early novels Mike’s constant teasing and harping is grating in the extreme. She has plenty of money from her parents and can afford to maintain a high end lifestyle on two islands. Not only is she rail thin, but she doesn’t seem to need to do anything except take one ballet class to stay that way. Men fairly drop at her feet, but she has control. The only sore spot seems to be just between Wellesley and the prosecutor’s office when her fiancé died the day before their Vineyard wedding. But she’s basically over it and the pain is a wistful reminder more than anything else. Despite the inevitable physical danger she gets into (the villain always captures her and M&M come to her rescue) and the other paint-by-numbers plot devices Fairstein uses every time, I like this series. Alexandra is a grown-up Nancy Drew and I can’t help but be drawn into her world and enviously watch her fight crime and win the day.
    • 4/5
      An Alexandra Cooper book; a college professor is murdered; her murder is connected to some historical buildings on an island in the middle of the East River;
    • 2/5
      I just couldn't get into this book at all. The characters were flat, and frankly, I found the protagonist boring as all get out. Blonde, 5'10", and 115 lbs. Gag me. It would be different if she had a bit more of a personality.Boring boring boring.