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Title:
The Kills
Genre:
Crime
Fiction
Mystery
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Series:
Alexandra Cooper
Series Order:
6
Binding:
Hardcover
Edition:
1st
Narrative:
First Person
Type of Book:
Fiction
Number of Pages:
383
Number of Chapters:
41
Date Added:
2018-06-26 16:57:00
Synopsis:
It’s going to be a tough trial. Manhattan sex crimes prosecutor Alexandra Cooper’s case, involving an attack on investment banker Paige Vallas, 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 Vallas 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.
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 Vallas 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.
Author:
Linda Fairstein
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Publisher:
Scribner
Barcode:
9780743223553
Country:
United States
Place of Printing:
1230 Avenue of the Americas, New York, NY 10020
Publication Date:
2004-01-13
Publication Year:
2004
Number of Copies:
1
Language:
English
Publisher Location:
New York, NY
Has Dustcover:
Yes
Automatic Estimated Value:
~$4.05
Automatic Estimated Date:
2025-10-31
Date Added:
2018-06-26 16:57:00
