Après avoir terrorisé les quartiers chics de Manhattan, celui que la presse a surnommé "le violeur au bas de soie" a disparu sans laisser de traces. Quatre ans plus tard, il semble de retour, sévissant cette fois avec une violence inaccoutumée. Quel rapport entretient-il avec le corps d'une jeune femme emmurée vivante, retrouvée dans l'ancienne demeure d'Edgar Poe ?

Mausolée (Alexandra Cooper, #7)

New York. Procureur, spécialisée dans les crimes sexuels, Alexandra Cooper traque un violeur en série qui terrifie la ville. Juge redoutée, elle n'en mène pas moins une vie sociale brillante. Elle a pour amant Jed Segal, ex-candidat aux sénatoriales, et vient de prêter sa maison de vacances à la célèbre actrice Isabella Lascar. Quelques jours plus tard, les journaux du matin annoncent, à tort, la mort de madame le Procureur. C'est Isabella qui a été assassinée, abattue à bout portant, frappée en plein visage. Qui visait le tueur ? S'engage alors une folle course contre la montre. Aidée d'un vieux policier, Mike Chapman, Alexandra passe en revue tous les criminels qui pourraient lui en vouloir à mort... Elle enquête sur Isabella, apprend que celle-ci était menacée, et surtout qu'elle avait une liaison avec Jed. Pendant ce temps, le violeur continue de sévir. De toutes parts, l'étau se resserre. Mais qui croit être le chasseur est souvent la proie...

l'epreuve finale

When the burnt headless body of a young woman is found on the steps of a Baptist Church in Harlem, Assistant DA Alexandra Cooper is one of the first on the shocking scene. Alex has seen some gruesome crimes committed in New York, but the barbarity of this latest discovery leaves her nauseous.
With NYPD cop Mike Chapman, Alex begins to investigate, but before long another woman is slaughtered and found on the steps of a Catholic church in Little Italy; her throat slashed and her tongue cut out.
It becomes clear there is a zealous serial killer on the loose. Now Alex and Mike must keep one step ahead of a religious fanatic bent on silencing the women he believes are bringing shame to his beliefs - before he kills anyone else.

Silent Mercy

Par une chaude soirée d'août, au terme d'une longue journée de plaidoiries, le substitut Alexandra Cooper retrouve ses vieux amis et collègues d'enquêtes, Mike Chapman et Mercer Wallace, policiers new-yorkais, sur le lieu d'un crime particulièrement sordide. Des victimes, Alex en a déjà vues beaucoup : depuis dix ans, en effet, elle a la redoutable tâche de poursuivre tous les auteurs d'agressions sexuelles. Pourtant, la vue de ce corps que l'on sort de l'eau pieds et mains attachés à une échelle, va littéralement la révolter. Entre un luxueux appartement de la 5e Avenue, les grandes salles de vente du midtown et les galeries branchées de Chelsea, Alex, Mike et Mercer traquent un tueur énigmatique dans un monde où le ballet intime des grosses fortunes et des chefs-d'œuvre inestimables suscite de dangereux appétits. Qu'il s'agisse d'un Rembrandt volé, d'un Vermeer suspect ou de précieux panneaux d'ambre raflés par les Nazis, les enjeux sont faramineux. Et ici les perdants risquent leur vie.

La Noyee De L'Hudson

'Working Night Watch, Coop. All the craziest shit happens on Night Watch.'
Forty-eight hours after New York Assistant D.A. Alexandra Cooper arrives in France to visit her restaurateur boyfriend, Luc Rouget, her holiday is cut short when a young woman is found murdered. Before the investigation begins, Alex is summoned back home to handle a high profile case.
Mohammed Gil-Darsin, Head of the World Economic Bureau, has been accused of attacking a maid in his hotel.  As the scandal unfolds, Alex finds her attention torn between preparing the alleged victim to testify and a murder case with ties too close to home. 
International bestselling author Linda Fairstein returns with a ripped-from-the-headlines thriller that takes Alexandra Cooper into the dark underside of New York City.
LIKE ASSISTANT DA ALEX COOPER, LINDA FAIRSTEIN WAS ONCE A TOP NEW YORK CITY PROSECUTOR. CRIME NOVELS CAN'T GET ANY MORE REAL.

Night Watch

'I sat on my living room sofa at five o'clock in the morning with a copy of the mock-up of the front of the day's New York Post in my hand, looking at my own obituary.' Alexandra Cooper, Assistant DA in New York, had lent her retreat in Martha's Vineyard to a Hollywood star. When a woman is found murdered at the wheel of Alex's car in her own driveway, the police assume it is her. When it turns out to be the house guest, a snake pit of possibilities opens up. If Alex was the intended victim the murderer could be any of the rapists and killers she'd successfully prosecuted and who were now on parole, or maybe a suspect from one of her current cases. But if the killer had got the right woman were they an obsessive fan or someone closer to home? Or was the motive entirely unconnected with either of the women's careers? An assured and authoritative thriller which marks the debut of a dazzling talent.

L'épreuve Finale (Alexandra Cooper, #1)

The Bone Vault begins in the Metropolitan Museum of Art's glorious Temple of Dendur, where wealthy donors have gathered to celebrate a controversial new exhibit.An uneasy mix of scholarship, showbiz, and aggressive marketing. "A Modern Bestiary" wil be a joint venture of the Met and the American Museum of Natural History. With its IMAX time trips and Rembrandt refrigerator magnets, the "Bestiary" has raised fierce oppostition from some of New York's museum elite.Assistant DA Alexandra Cooper, off dutiy for the evening, observes the developing tensions with bemused interest until Met director Pierre Thibodaux pulls her aside. He needs her advice. There's an urgent problem out at a loading dock on a New Jersey pier.A Twelfth Dynasty mummified princess, enclosed for eternity in a huge stone sarcophagus, is about to take a long voyage to Cairo as part of a routine museum exchange. But Cleopatra is missing, and in her place is the not-so-mummified body of a woman many centuries younger than her royal predecessor. Who is this woman with the small physique, the dark hair, and the shiny barrette? What is her connection, if any, to the rarefied world of priceless art and objects? And how and when did she become entombed in the sarcophagus?Teaming with cops Mike Chapman and Mercer Wallace, Alex must explore behind the scenes at the elegant but severe Metropolitan, travel uptown to the romote setting of the Cloisters and its medieval trove of funerary art, and on to the massive array of beasts and bones at the Museum of Natural History. Somewhere deep within the bowels of one of these great cultural centers, a killer may wait.Atmospheric, chilling, and rich with the kind of precedural authenticing that only Linda Fairstein can provide, The Bone Vault is a page-turning tour de force from one of crime writin's brightest stars.

Mausolée (Alexandra Cooper, #7)

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