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Deadhouse, the | 
 enlarge | Author: Fairstein
Publisher: Simon & Schuster
Category: Book
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Rating:  10 reviews
Sales Rank: 1609895
Media: Hardcover
Pages: 416
Number Of Items: 1
Shipping Weight (lbs): 1.6
Dimensions (in): 9.6 x 6.5 x 1.4
ISBN: 0684849046
Dewey Decimal Number: 813.54
EAN: 9780684849041
ASIN: 0684849046
Publication Date: September 24, 2001
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Amazon.co.uk Review
Penzler Pick:Much of Linda Fairstein's The Deadhouse is set in a section of New York City that hides in plain sight: Roosevelt Island, floating in the East River between Manhattan and Queens, a place with a lot of curious history and now home to several thousand middle-class residents living in high-rise apartment buildings. The corpse that kicks off the story's action was a Columbia history professor with the outlandish name of Lola Dakota. It turns out that she's not actually dead at all: the videotape of her bloody demise was a set-up, with her abusive husband having made the mistake of hiring undercover cops to kill her. Almost immediately, however, what was faked becomes real. Only this time Lola's body has been crushed in an elevator shaft, making her a victim unlikely to sit up and smile for the cameras as she had earlier in the day.The Roosevelt Island connection comes with the late Dr Dakota's interest in urban archaeology, specifically the site on the island that was once a 19th-century smallpox hospital where quarantined patients were sent. What gives it modern significance--and enough to kill for--is the possibility of locating buried treasure. Much livelier than the title would promise, The Deadhouse is a mystery in the best tradition of a once-esteemed writer who is largely forgotten today--Helen Reilly, whose 1940s crime novels also showed readers quaint and forgotten corners of the city. Linda Fairstein, creator of the Alexandra Cooper series, is also the nationally prominent Manhattan Assistant District Attorney in charge of the Sex Crimes Unit (who first came to prominence prosecuting the so-called "Preppy Murderer"). Wearing her mystery writer's hat, she has watched her work climb the bestseller lists. --Otto Penzler
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The Deadhouse September 10, 2007
Coma white (Hampshire)
1 out of 1 found this review helpful
This was my first Fairstein book. I thought it was OK, I liked the setting of Blackwells and the Deadhouse. But I feel that it would have been better if more of the story took place there. Apart from that I feel the book was good. I will eventually read this series from the start now that I know it has a good cast of characters and good writing from Linda Fairstein
 From the sleeve.... August 31, 2007
Angel Silver (England)
University professor Lola Dakota has suffered at the hands of her abusive husband too long and when the police get wind of his plan to hire a hitman to kill her, she agrees to fake her own murder. The sting seems successful and her husband is arrested. However, a couple of hours later, Lola is dead again, this time for real.
Assistant District Attorney Alexandra Cooper is brought in to help NYPD detectives find the killer. They are led into the academic world at King's College and find it riddled with petty jealousies, love affairs and swindled funds. Alex uncovers tales of missing students, drug dealers and something referred to as the Deadhouse, which take her to an island just off Manhattan where Lola's department was researching the remains of a Victorian penitentiary, hospitals and lunatic asylums...
 My Introduction to Alexandra Cooper January 24, 2004
11 out of 11 found this review helpful
I don't normally enjoy crime/thrillers, so I was not that keen to read this when given a copy. Attracted and intrigued by the cover photo, I started to read, and within pages I was hooked! Alexandra Cooper is a clever but vulnerable heroine who gave me an insight into the workings of the US criminal and legal system, as well as excellent descriptions of New York. At times I felt like one of Alex's friends, with whom she keeps in regular touch, in the way she described her days and nights. Since then I have bought all Linda Fairstein's other books, and while Final Jeopardy was marvellous, I felt Likely to Die and Cold Hit were not quite so appealing. I am nevertheless looking forward to reading the new titles. I hope that Alex Cooper does not have so many lucky escapes and cheat death so many times that she becomes an improbable and unbelievable character.
Death in New York March 11, 2003
Quite a competent, if not compulsive, murder mystery from an author whose novels are so authentic they read like an autobiography. Good characters, interesting locations and an exciting conclusion add to the appeal.
 Dead Boring February 3, 2003
Rebecca Higgins (Weston Super Mare, Avon United Kingdom)
This is the type of book that could put you off reading. Not so much a 'whodunnit' as a 'whocares'.Convoluted, fragmented and without suspense. Don't waste you time.
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