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Loading... The Deadhouse (2001)by Linda Fairstein
None. 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. (  ) meredk | Jul 25, 2011 |  ALEXANDRA COOPER  rustyoldboat | May 28, 2011 | 2002 katiemertz | Nov 20, 2009 | 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. (  ) Bookmarque | Feb 20, 2009 | Liked this one, though it was a little tough to get into at first. That of course all ended at 3AM when I wanted to go to sleep. Was up 'til after 5 reading and only put it down because the sun came up before returning to it this morning. I liked the ending,liked the change that it wasn't Coop's own lack of forethought that got her in trouble and I liked the air of mystery that surrounded Roosevelt. May need to be a field trip when I get back home, I could do with some diamonds ;) skinglist | Jan 6, 2009 | no reviews | add a review Is contained in
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Unable to protect Lola alive, Alex is determined to find the killer and bring him to justice. All she has to go on is a scrap of paper in the murdered woman's pocket with the words "The Deadhouse" on it, along with a series of numbers. Deciphering the clue leads Alex and Mike Chapman, her favorite homicide cop, to an abandoned gothic hospital on New York's Roosevelt Island, where smallpox victims went to die a century ago. Because of its history, the Deadhouse held a special attraction for Lola and for several of her university colleagues; and, as it turns out, almost all these deftly drawn minor characters had a reason to want Lola dead. Illuminating their personalities and motives gives Fairstein an opportunity to skewer the academic infighting that goes on at an elite Ivy League school.
The author's background as head of the New York district attorney's Sex Crime Unit is just one of the many assets she brings to her fast-paced, intricately plotted thrillers. What makes this one a standout is the wealth of historical detail about 19th-century New York, which adds an extra dimension of verisimilitude to an engrossing, atmospheric, and suspenseful read. --Jane Adams
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"It's the holiday season but there's little reason for cheer at one of New York's most elite colleges. A respected professor is dead; strangled and dumped in an elevator shaft. Lola Dakota's lifeless fingers clutch a few strands of hair, and a piece of paper in her pocket reads "The Deadhouse."" "What brought a distinguished academic to such a tragic end? Opportunistic murder seems unlikely as assistant DA Alexandra Cooper, working with detectives Mike Chapman and Mercer Wallace, uncovers a distressing pattern of betrayal and terror." "There's proof that Lola's husband, Ivan, wanted her dead. He has an alibi, but could he have hired a killer? Or could one of Lola's colleagues have erupted into unexpected violence? Some of their stories don't quite ring true. And why did Lola have a photograph of twenty-year-old Charlotte Voight pinned to her office bulletin board? Charlotte left her dorm room eight months ago and vanished into the night. Is she dead? Could she and Lola have become victims of the same predator?" "Perhaps most puzzling of all are the words "The Deadhouse." What was Lola's connection to this desolate place where people once endured slow and agonizing deaths? And what danger awaits Alex there or on the streets of Manhattan as she targets Lola's killer?"--BOOK JACKET.… (more)
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