As I perused this passage, I tried to picture a bicyclist moving at top speed with no lights on while gripping this incendiary device in one hand and lighting it with the other hand-in the wind-then tossing it with deadly accuracy at their car. As they are about to get into their car a bicyclist flies past them, startling them.Īnother bicyclist comes hurtling out of the darkness and flings a Molotov cocktail at their car. Alex and her boyfriend are leaving a restaurant. There’s a part of this book that is so ridiculous I could not stop laughing. Now she’s one of the suspects in his murder case. As he was dying, he toppled on to Alexandra. As this one opens, the District Attorney was just murdered in a public place. Over the course of these novels, Cooper has only aged a few years. Her most recent one, the 19th, is “Deadfall.” In 1996 she started publishing a series of crime novels that feature a prosecutor in Manhattan named Alexandra Cooper. Linda Fairstein spent years as the head of the Sex Crimes Unit for the Manhattan District Attorney’s office. “Deadfall” by Linda Fairstein (Dutton, 385 pages, $28). RELATED: “Camille” completes Frenchman’s gruesome trilogy Box deftly ties all those story lines together. It appears that the “Lizard King” might have caused the blast and now Cassie bears the blame for this. On the same day that the boys run off, there’s a massive explosion nearby. They have just set out in a boat on the river. While Cassie is hoping to finally apprehend this murderous menace, two local youths are running away from home.
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