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    Killer Heat

    Written by Linda Fairstein

    Narrated by Bernadette Dunne

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    It's August in New York, and the only thing that's hotter than the pavement is Manhattan D.A. Alex Cooper's professional and personal life. Just as she's claiming an especially gratifying victory in a rape case, she gets the call: The body of a young woman has been found in an abandoned building. The brutality of the murder is disturbing enough, but when a second body, beaten and disposed of in exactly the same manner, is found off the Belt Parkway, the city's top brass want the killer found fast, before the tabloids can start churning out ghoulish serial killer headlines.

    Between dodging the bullets of the gang members who are infuriated by Alex's most recent courtroom victory and keeping a rendezvous with a charming restaurateur, a serial killer on the loose is the last thing she needs on her plate right now. Then a third victim is found, and it becomes clear to Alex and her team that time is not on their side.

    Through Alex's peerless interrogation skills-and one big break-the search becomes focused on someone who has a twisted obsession with the military. Once again Linda Fairstein brilliantly orchestrates a gripping mix of cutting-edge legal issues and forensics, New York City history, and spine-tingling suspense.


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    LanguageEnglish
    PublisherPenguin Random House Audio
    Release dateMar 11, 2008
    ISBN9781415944394
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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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    • 4/5
      I docked half a star from Killer Heat bcause Alex Cooper saw a chain around the killer's neck and didn't even THINK of using it as a weapon. (After all, Ms. Fairstein could have had Alex decide that the height difference between them made it too risky for her to reach for it while his back was turned. Hasn't Ms. Cooper ever been taught to see the weapon in ordinary objects to aid in self-defense?) Alex did ultimately defend herself, but I'm with Mike Chapman about her aim.Other than that, I found the book's plot and subplots interesting, especially:Is there a serial killer running around?If there is, what attracts him to his victims?The military history we get to learnThe cold rape case being tried -- the contrast between what victims endured in the 1970s and nowAlex being stalked by gang members whose leader she got jailed for raping a 12-year-oldLoopholes and sheer stupidity involved in the system that's supposed to protect the public from captured sexual predators (I'm smelling a possible future lawsuit from the victims' families)
    • 3/5
      When the bound and tortured body of a young woman is discovered in an abandoned Manhattan ferry terminal District Attorney Alexandra Cooper and Detectives Mike Chapman and Mercer Wallace start hunting for her killer. At the same time Cooper is also prosecuting a man who raped a woman in the 1970’s but who can only now be brought to justice due to DNA evidence and she’s also made it on to a gangster’s hit list and undergoes some scary moments due to that.

      I’ve read all of the previous novels featuring Alex, Mike and Mercer and I must say that meeting up with them again is a bit like catching up with old friends. The strongest element to this series has, for me, always been these three characters who are particularly believable in their respective roles. For 25 years (until 2002) Linda Fairstein was New York’s chief prosecutor of sex crimes cases and I think that first hand knowledge shows in the legal details and the depictions of the cases being carefully constructed which always seem very realistic to me. It also influences the empathy with which the books treat victims of brutal sex crimes. This book has an especially poignant sub plot about a woman who was raped in the 70’s and her rapist went free because she couldn’t prove she had fought him. It really made me think about how far we’ve come in a relatively short space of time.

      The friendship between the three is also something I enjoy, primarily because there’s never been a hint of unresolved sexual tension between any of them. They’re just staunch friends of the kind that people in the real world often are and people in fictiondom seldom seem to be and it makes a nice change from alcoholic loners or characters looking longingly at each other but never doing anything about it.

      The plot of Killer Heat is a little disjointed. The sub plot concerning Alex being targeted by the members of a gang whose leader she had recently successfully prosecuted seemed a bit ridiculous, especially as it wasn’t really resolved (it just sort of stopped somewhere before the end of the book). The main story about the hunt for the killer of several woman relied heavily on long descriptions of a series of locations as well as more knowledge of American history than I’m ever likely to have so I did have to re-read a few parts before they made sense. I even resorted to Wikipedia once or twice which made me ponder what on earth we did before the entire world’s trivia was available at the end of one’s fingertips in the middle of the night.

      Overall though the plot was resolved very satisfactorily and I was glad I met up once again with these characters. Fairstein’s personal knoweldge of the world she writes about brings an air of authenticity to this story in which the victims of crime are just as important, if not more so, than the perpetrators and investigators. I often think that victims get ignored or are depicted as basic stereotypes and this book definitely doesn’t do either of those things.
    • 3/5
      10th book in the Alex Cooper series, this novel takes the Manhattan ADA takes to Staten Island and the badly decomposed female body. The victim proves to be the first of a number of women in uniform targeted by the murderer, who may have military ties in his past. Twist and turns take Alex and gang to Governor's Island and its military history. I enjoy this series--but this book had less of the New York City history that I really enjoy. 3 out of 5 stars.
    • 2/5
      There was nothing terribly wrong about Killer Heat. It had a solid plot, but I felt that this novel didn't cover any new ground. It's the kind of novel that was okay while I was reading it, but in a few months I will probably have no recollection of it. There was just nothing to distinguish it. It's the kind of novel, where you could do worse, but it's still worth reading.Carl Alves - author of Two For Eternity
    • 1/5
      We listened to this on a trip. I thought it had waaay too much filler. The story could have been told inabout half the space.
    • 4/5
      It's August in New York, and the only thing that's hotter than the pavement is Manhattan DA Alex Cooper's professional and personal life. Just as she's claiming an especially gratifying victory in a rape case, she gets the call: The body of a young woman has been found in an abandoned building. The brutality of the murder is disturbing enough, but when a second body, beaten and disposed of in exactly the same manner, is found off the Belt Parkway, the city's top brass want the killer found fast, before the tabloids can start churning out ghoulish serial killer headlines.
    • 4/5
      I listened to this tale of Alexandra Cooper, Manhattan D.A., and the sex crimes squad of detectives that the works with while out on my jogs. It certainly kept my pace up, as I listened to Alex's latest adventures in tracking down a suspected serial killer--and being targeted herself by gangsters. If you like thrills mixed in with courtroom scenes and police investigative work then this is the book for you.
    • 4/5
      I was at about page 70 something when I realized I thought I might have read this. It was at about p 200 or so that I knew I had. Wonder how it never got logged here? At least I didn't pay for it. I enjoyed it as I do most Fairstein books,. There's a main case and one that tags along. This one left me wondering what happened to Ffloyd Warren and his sentencing. It got lost in the Troy Rasheed/Kiernan Dylan line, but as always I enjoyed "visiting" an NYC I don't see even though I live here.
    • 3/5
      saw this on Barnes and Nobles sight as "coming soon" (this month), and I now have to read it. I love this author.I have to say, while most of her books are peppered with "facts" of wars, New York and general trivia, I noticed it waaaay more in this book, like it was forced into it, just for the trivia, instead of for the story. I think I noticed it more, because I didn't get as into this book's story. I would really like to see some kind of resolution on the "Blondie, Chapman" story. Can they just get together already? It's been teased about for years, it'd be nice if something happened.
    • 4/5
      Killer Heat is the 10th in the series centering around Alexandra Cooper Asst DA for Special Victims in NYC. This book's main story line revolves around a serial rapist/murder and the efforts taken to apprehend the perpetrator. There is a subplot which is cleverly woven in to misdirect the reader and keep the tension throughout. The characters have been well-developed over the previous 9 novels and interact as expected. The behavior of the central character is beginning to become a bit predictable and therefore, removes some of the suspense that could normally be generated in this type of plot. But all in all, I enjoyed the book.
    • 4/5
      Girls in uniform, RTK (raped, tortured, killed) Alexander Cooper (Coop) NY city prosecuter, Mercer (black detective) Mike, sidekick, Ruffles Bar (drinking and sand bar), wonderful historical details on the historical armaments guarding New York as well as Govenor's Island. Troy Rasheed, the RTK guy, nasty piece of work with tattoos of his victim's initials. Good page turner.
    • 4/5
      Excellent series by Linda Fairstein about Alex Cooper, a woman in charge of prosecuting sex crimes in the New Y city District Attorney's office. Fairstein held that job for many years, so knows well the details of the job. Every book in the series has a tie to a particular aspect of New York City. In this case, a serial killer is leaving bodies on some of the lesser known islands near Manhattan. This was a good book, though not my favorite in ther series.
    • 4/5
      Nasty crimes, excellent villain, interesting New York history, usual display of friendship and camaraderie that makes me slightly jealous, but very paint-by-the-numbers plot. When the bad guy was revealed I kept inventing the circumstance where he will physically confront Alex because inevitably they do. It’s usually the penultimate scene and the climax of the novel and Fairstein planted it there as she always does. I hoped she would shake things up a little bit, but she didn’t and frankly it’s a bit boring.
    • 4/5
      Women are being raped and murdered in NYC and the police are focused on the wrong suspect. A hot line call from a sacred woman tells them that the man standing behind the arrested suspect in the picture in the paper is a recently released from prison psycho rapist.
    • 4/5
      Linda Fairstein has replaced Patricia Cornwell as the go-to author of forensic science mystery series. Her protagonist, Alexandra Cooper, is a younger, hipper version of Scarpetta sans the paranoid narcissism that has beset that beloved character in recent tomes. In Killer Heat, Fairstein does a great job of making the city and the unbearable heat central characters in her story. As she has done in each book, Fairstein bases her story in part on some little-known part of New York history that allows her readers to not only enjoy a good mystery but gain some education along the way. The history does seem a little intrusive in this outing, but it is still a great backdrop for Cooper and company to solve the riddle and save the day.
    • 3/5
      It's August in New York, and the only thing hotter than the Pavement is Manhattan D. A. Alex Cooper's professional and personal life. Just as she's claiming an especially gratifying victory in a rape case, she gets the call: The body of a young woman has been found in an abandoned building. The brutality of the murder is disturbing enough, but when a second body, beaten and disposed of in exactlly the same manner, is found off the Belt Parkway, the city's top brass want the killer found fast, before the tabloids can start churning out ghoulish serial killer headlines.
    • 4/5
      The latest book in the Alex Cooper series. A serial killer has struck during the hottest week of the summer. The sites chosen by the killer were important to the history of Manhattan. Finished it within 12 hours of purchase.