Entombed by Linda Fairstein

Entombed

by Linda Fairstein

Personal Review/Comments

This is the 7^th in the Alexandra Cooper series. Maybe because this was my first time round with Ms.Cooper or because it has been a very long while since I read another in this series, I did find some of the characters almost indistinguishable from each other. In particular Mike and Mercer. It took me ¾ of the ways into the book before I could even tell, without straining, to remember who was who.

Maybe it was just me. Or maybe if you are already an avid fan of the Alexandra Cooper series, then you might not have this problem. Linda Fairstein, to be fair, did make them "different coloured" people but in a book, that didn't help. And for me, nothing about either character stood out enough from the get-go for me to say which character was on the scene at any one time.

Apart from that wee bit of disgruntled observation, I must say that this is another good read and kept me out of mischief for a little while. And I learnt more about Edgar Allen Poe (or as he prefers, Edgar Poe ~ as you will find out in the book) than I knew before.

Rating: 6/10

Synopsis

It was a crime scene Edgar Allan Poe himself could have conjured, only it was all too real: workers demolishing a nineteenth-century Greenwich Village brownstone where Poe once lived unearthed the skeleton of a young woman -- buried standing upright behind a brick wall. Manhattan Assistant D.A. Alexandra Cooper takes on the gruesome case while in pursuit of the Silk Stocking Rapist, who is terrorizing the Upper East Side. But Alex discovers that one crime thread leads to the other as she follows a trail of clues to the Bronx Botanical Gardens, where a group of Poe devotees may shed light on a stone-cold, modern-day murder of gothic proportions...and a cunning killer with a bone-chilling tale to tell.

About the Author

Linda Fairstein was the Assistant DA of Manhattan's sex crimes unit before taking early retirement in 2002 to concentrate on her writing. She divides her time between New York and Martha's Vineyard.

Book Review

'Alexandra Cooper, like her creator, Linda Fairstein, is a force to contend with' ~ Sue Grafton

"Original, chilling, and brilliant." ~ Nelson DeMille