Linda Fairstein
Alex Cooper series
Final Jeopardy 3 hours abridged Diane Venora
Alexandra Cooper, Manhattan's top sex crime prosecutor, awakens one morning to shocking news--a tabloid headline announcing her own brutal murder. But the actual victim was Isabella Lascar, the Hollywood film star who sought refuge at Alex's Martha's Vineyard retreat. Was Isabella targeted by a stalker or was she in the wrong place at the wrong time--mistaken for Alex?.
Likely To Die
3 hours abridged Diane VenoraA Mid-Manhattan Medical Center neurosurgeon is found in her office stabbed,
sexually assaulted, and barely breathing. Alexandra Cooper, head of the
Manhattan District Attorney's sex crimes unit, tries to piece together the clues
and find out who could have planned this vicious attack.
Cold Hit 4.5 hours abridged Allison Janney
Cold Hit is the story of Alexandra Cooper, head of the district
attorney’s sex crimes unit, who joins homicide detective Mike Chapman to
investigate a savage murder. Prominent art dealer Denise Caxton is brutally
bludgeoned in a barren strip of land in northern Manhattan and as Cooper hastens
to capture the evasive killer, she’s caught up in the dangerous Manhattan art
scene and international intrigue.
The Dead House 6 hours abridged Blair Brown
It's winter in New York, the start of the Christmas season, when a Kings' College political science professor is killed in what at first appears to be an accident. As chief prosecutor in Manhattan's sex-crimes division, Alex Cooper had been working with Professor Lola Dakota on a case against Lola's abusive husband. Now that the woman is dead, the husband is suspect number one. But Lola's abrasive personality and a web of academic intrigue invite other suspects among the dead woman's colleagues. Lola was working with a multidisciplinary team of professors and students on a dig on Roosevelt Island, the macabre nineteenth-century site of a smallpox sanitarium, insane asylum, and prison. As Alex is drawn into the murder investigation, she discovers that Lola had more than a professional interest in "the deadhouse" on Roosevelt Island. Alex teams up with Detective Mike Chapman to ferret out the murderer, and the two uncover drug trafficking, treasure digging, and vicious political maneuvering in academia and the prosecutor's office.
The Bone Vault
5.5 hours abridged Blair BrownA Twelfth Dynasty mummified princess, enclosed for eternity in a huge stone sarcophagus, is about to take a long voyage to Cairo as part of a routine museum exchange. But Cleopatra is missing, and in her place is the not-so-mummified body of a woman many centuries younger than her royal predecessor.
Who is this woman with the small physique, the dark hair, and the shiny barrette? What is her connection, if any, to the rarefied world of priceless art and objects? And how and when did she become entombed in the sarcophagus?
Teaming with cops Mike Chapman and Mercer Wallace, Alex must explore behind the scenes at the elegant but severe Metropolitan, travel uptown to the remote setting of the Cloisters and its medieval trove of funerary art, and on to the massive array of beasts and bones at the Museum of Natural History. Somewhere deep within the bowels of one of these great cultural centers, a killer may wait.
The Kills 5.5 hours abridged Blair Brown CD
Manhattan Assistant D.A. Alexandra Cooper is working feverishly on a tough trial, seeking justice for investment banker Paige Vallis. But in a heated "he said, she said" case, Alex learns that Paige herself has something to hide. Uptown, the murder of an elderly woman with an intriguing past has NYPD officer Mercer Wallace and detective Mike Chapman hunting for an item of stunning value that may have cost McQueen Ransome her life: a legendary Double Eagle gold coin. The twisting threads of the seemingly unrelated tragedies soon entangle Alex in a life-and-death struggle in the watery inlets of New Jersey known as the Kills...where a violent predator is determined to silence her forever.
Entombed 6 hours abridged Blair Brown CD
Workers demolishing a nineteenth-century brownstone where Edgar Allan Poe once lived discover a human skeleton entombed -- standing -- behind a brick wall. When sex crimes prosecutor Alexandra Cooper hears about the case, it strikes her as a classic Poe scene...except that forensic evidence shows that this young woman died within the last twenty-five years. Meanwhile, Alex's old nemesis the Silk Stocking Rapist is once again terrorizing Manhattan's Upper East Side. The attacks soon escalate to murder, and the search leads Alex and detectives Mercer Wallace and Mike Chapman to the city's stunning Bronx Botanical Gardens. There, an enigmatic librarian presides over the Raven Society, a group devoted to the work of Poe. In exploring the fabled writer's tormented life for clues, Alex will cross paths with a cunning killer and face some of the greatest challenges of her career.
Bad Blood 6 hours abridged Blair Brown CD
Hundreds of feet below Manhattan, a treacherous tunnel maze is inhabited by the sandhogs, teams of workers who are rebuilding New York City's deteriorating water supply system. Their dark and dangerous world turns deadly when a catastrophic explosion rips through Water Tunnel #3, sending shock waves that are felt throughout the city and inside the courtroom where Alexandra Cooper is dead-set on nailing young businessman Brendan Quillian for the murder of his wealthy wife. The blast sends Alex's case in a shattering new direction--and pulls her and detectives Mike Chapman and Mercer Wallace underground to dig up ancient rivalries and homicidal secrets that may pull Alex in too deep....
Killer Heat 6 hours abridged Blair Brown CD
It's August in New York and the only thing that's hotter than the pavement is Manhattan D.A. Alex Cooper's personal and professional life. Just as she's claiming an especially gratifying victory in a rape case, she gets the call: the brutally beaten body of a young woman has been found in an abandoned building. When a second body is found, Alex races to find the killer and keep him from killing again, even if it's at her own peril.