Assistant D.A. Alexandra Cooper is back -- in this page-turning New
York Times bestseller from legendary Manhattan sex-crimes prosecutor
Linda Fairstein.
On Roosevelt Island, a strip of land in New York City's East River,
stands an abandoned 19th century smallpox asylum, The Deadhouse, where
the afflicted were shipped off to die. It's a gruesome bit of history
perhaps best forgotten. But for Alexandra Cooper, it may be the key to a
shocking murder that cuts deeper than the arctic cold front gripping the
city. A respected university professor is dead -- strangled and dumped
in an elevator shaft. And while the school does damage control for
anxious parents, Cooper and her close detective friend Mike Chapman
scramble for answers, fueled by the most daunting discovery: a piece of
paper, found on the lifeless body of Professor Lola Dakota, that reads
The Deadhouse....