Devil’s Bridge: An Alexandra Cooper Novel #17. Linda
Fairstein. Penguin Group (USA). August 2015. 384 pp. ISBN#: 9780147538932.
Alexandra
Cooper’s job isn’t pretty but it’s all about justice. She’s the chief prosecutor of the Manhattan
Sex Crimes Unit and has made more enemies than she can count on both
hands. So no big shock when she’s called
into the scene of a murder of a pimp, a creep who was so passed out from booze
that he probably never knew that the gal who clambered over him was just aiming
for a guaranteed hit!
Mike
Chapman, one of Alexandra’s peers, quickly becomes involved in finding the
murderer. A series of events will
quickly connect a very well-known Reverend to not only the murderer but also
many other connected crimes. The problem
is the so-called “Reverend” is connected to just about every high politician
and their family members in New York City.
So the job is clear but where it will end up and through how many mazes
before they get there is for the reader to discover.
The
plot becomes rivetingly more intense when Alexandra disappears. Since she and
Mike have recently become a “couple,” everyone seems to think he knows
precisely where she’s gone. More deaths
will follow and the investigators will have to ramp up their skills to capture
the elusive killer, who is not who the reader thinks committed the
brutal kills.
There’s
a story behind the term “Devil’s Bridge,” a story obviously connected to the
practice of evil, a connection all too real and too well-known, a fact of life
that grossly tarnishes what is otherwise a remarkably lovely view along the
Manhattan waterfront.
Devil’s Bridge… is fine crime fiction with just the
right amount of tension, tenderness and humor.
Finely crafted, Linda Fairstein!
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