The Kills, Linda Fairstein
The Kills, Linda Fairstein
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The Kills

Author: Linda Fairstein

Narrator: Barbara Rosenblat

Unabridged: 10 hr 50 min

Format: Digital Audiobook Download

Published: 01/04/2011


Synopsis

From New York Times bestselling author and former top prosecutor Linda Fairstein comes an electrifying thriller rich with the riveting behind-the-scenes authenticity that only she can offer.

It’s going to be a tough trial. Manhattan sex-crimes prosecutor Alexandra Cooper’s case, involving an attack on investment banker Paige Vallis, would be difficult to prove even without the latest development—it seems that Paige has something to hide.

Most of her story is clear. She’d had dinner with New York consultant Andrew Tripping three times before the March evening when she accepted his invitation to accompany him to his apartment. But what occurred that night? Why didn’t she leave the apartment when he started to act strangely? What about Tripping’s little boy, Dulles? What happened to the child that fateful evening? And who is the strange man whose appearance in the courtroom seems to terrify Paige?

While Alex’s police detective friend Mercer Wallace helps her learn more of the sad details behind the increasingly puzzling rape case, colleague Mike Chapman is uptown in a decaying Harlem brownstone where eighty-two-year-old McQueen Ransome has been murdered, her apartment ransacked.

What could this impoverished, elderly woman have possessed that could have inspired such violence? Photographs on the wall suggest that “Queenie” was once a beautiful and voluptuous young woman who traveled to faraway places. Could there be a clue to her murder in her exotic background?

Her murder will be only the first. Others follow, as the tragic strands of the Paige Vallis and McQueen Ransome cases begin to converge in a poignant alliance of two women from very different worlds.

Faced with formidable personal and professional choices, Alex must learn the old lesson that appearances can deceive, even as she heads for a showdown in which her wits and her courage will be tested as never before.

About 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.


Reviews

Goodreads review by Baba on February 15, 2022

My 2008 one sentence review said: 'Complex and exciting crime/legal/conspiracy drama covering so many angles and issues!' - that's not bad for reading the 6th book in a sex crime investigator series! The Kills has a nice element of historical storytelling, which I later found out was the norm for th......more

Goodreads review by Karen on January 29, 2024

Wow, love how involved these books are......more

Goodreads review by Anne (Booklady) on September 25, 2011

Double entendre is a skill that Linda Fairstein excels in her Alexandra Cooper Series. Here in the 6th installment, THE KILLS, the title refers to the name that NYC homicide detectives commonly call murders and The Kills are a warren of tributaries between the small islands off the toe of Manhattan......more

Goodreads review by Ann on March 02, 2016

Well written book, sort of like reading an extended episode of Law and Order. I liked the characters and the writing style, but this only gets 3 stars from me because of the crazy twists and turns the story takes. What starts as a seemingly garden variety rape trial quickly morphs into a tale involv......more

Goodreads review by Peter on October 21, 2017

lots of twists and turns good characters good plot. I recommend.......more