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Linda Fairstein

LINDA FAIRSTEIN, America's foremost legal expert on crimes of sexual assault and domestic violence, led the Sex Crimes Unit of the District Attorney's Office in Manhattan for twenty-five years. A Fellow of the American College of Trial Lawyers, she is a graduate of Vassar College and the University of Virginia School of Law. Her first novel, Final Jeopardy, introduced the critically acclaimed character of Alexandra Cooper and was made into an ABC Movie of the Week starring Dana Delaney. The celebrated series has gone on to include the New York Times bestsellers Likely to Die, Cold Hit, The Deadhouse (winner of the Nero Wolfe Award for Best Crime Novel of 2001, and... Read full bio

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Cold Hit will be released on June 29, 2013 in Trade Paperback
May 14, 2013
The Plot Thickens will be released on May 11, 2013 in Trade Paperback
May 11, 2013
The Plot Thickens is now available in Trade Paperback
May 11, 2013
The Bone Vault is now available in Trade Paperback
Oct 21, 2012
The Bone Vault will be released on October 21, 2012 in Trade Paperback
Oct 21, 2012
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The Deadhouse
Aug 23, 2012
The Deadhouse will be released on August 14, 2012 in Audio Download
Aug 14, 2012
The Deadhouse is now available in Audio Download
Aug 14, 2012
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Jul 27, 2012
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Excerpt 1 from The Kills
Jul 27, 2012
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Jul 27, 2012
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Jul 27, 2012
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Jul 27, 2012
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Jul 25, 2012
Linda Fairstein Boxed Set will be released on April 26, 2011 in eBook
Apr 26, 2011
Linda Fairstein Boxed Set is now available in eBook
Apr 26, 2011

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LUUUX, March 31, 2013
...time to read this book, and here is my book review! It is a book "Lethal Legacy" by Linda Fairstein. NY police quickly respond to allegedly assault, but the female vicitm will not cooperate. The very next day police is back to the same place to find...
FinanzNachrichten.de, March 7, 2013
.../PRNewswire/ --Jules B. Kroll, Chairman of K2 Intelligence, announced today that Linda Fairstein, the pioneering former Chief of the New York County District Attorney's Sex Crimes Prosecution Unit, is joining the firm as a Senior Advisor and leader of...
Guardian.co.uk, February 8, 2013
...Dick King-Smith 100,000 C 205 Claire Llewellyn 100,000 C 206 Heather Amery 100,000 C 207 Linda Fairstein 100,000 A 208 Catherine Cookson 100,000 A 209 Martin Handford 100,000 C 210 Hilary Robinson 100,000 C 211 Lucy Daniels 100,000 C 212 Jane...
Amsterdam News, October 25, 2012
...JUSTICE QUEST: Central Park 5 seek reparations “In 1989, without any physical evidence, the NYPD and the district attorney’s office—namely former Assistant District Attorney and fiction crime writer Linda Fairstein—railroaded five young boys to...
Advertiser Democrat, October 18, 2012
...Die," Tess Gerritsen; "The Uninvited," Heather Graham; "The Kingmaker’s Daughter," Philippa Gregory; "Night Watch," Linda Fairstein; "Dancing Dogs: Stories," Jon Katz; "A Killing in the Hills," Julia Keller; "Garment of Shadows," Laurie R. King;...
Northeast Pennsylvania Weekender, October 18, 2012
...“Night Watch” By Linda Fairstein Rating: W W W Article appeared on page 30A Story Tools Print | EMail | Save | Hear QR Font size: Font family: Font weight: Text align: Translate Page...
AlterNet.org, May 16, 2013
...under scrutiny but none of them have suffered as a result of their actions.” Lederer’s boss,  Linda Fairstein , also made quite a name for herself in the ensuing years. She became a best selling author and a wealthy woman after the prosecution....
RINF.com, May 16, 2013
...under scrutiny but none of them have suffered as a result of their actions.” Lederer’s boss,  Linda Fairstein , also made quite a name for herself in the ensuing years. She became a best selling author and a wealthy woman after the prosecution....
RINF.com, May 15, 2013
...in Breaking News 22 mins ago The ironically named criminal justice system in this country is good at prosecuting and creating many criminals but not very good at producing any justice. The United States would not have the largest prison population of...
Global Research, May 15, 2013
...The ironically named criminal justice system in this country is good at prosecuting and creating many criminals but not very good at producing any justice. The United States would not have the largest prison population of any other country on earth if it...
American Conservative, May 3, 2013
...its failure to explore the real thoughts of the detectives, or subsequently, the two prosecutors, Elizabeth Lederer and Linda Fairstein, who put their game faces on and successfully prosecuted young people most in the city thought deserved to rot in...
New York Times, May 2, 2013
...be overturned. (A fund-raiser on May 14 for his successor, Cyrus R. Vance Jr., is being hosted by Linda Fairstein, the former chief of the unit that prosecuted the case, who continues to insist that the right people were convicted.) The petition...
New York Times, May 2, 2013
...be overturned. (A fund-raiser on May 14 for his successor, Cyrus R. Vance Jr., is being hosted by Linda Fairstein, the former chief of the unit that prosecuted the case, who continues to insist that the right people were convicted.) The petition...