Linda Fairstein

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  • Bibliography:
    26 Books (2 Series)
  • First Book:
    January 1981
  • Latest Book:
    January 2019
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About the Author

Linda Fairstein is a former prosecutor and one of America's foremost legal experts on crimes of violence against women and children. For three decades. she served in the office of the New York County District Attorney, where she was Chief of the Sex Crimes Prosecution Unit. In 2010 she was the recipient of the Silver Bullet Award from the International Thriller Writers Association. Her Alexandra Cooper novels have been translated into more than a dozen languages and have debuted on the The Sunday Times and The New York Times bestseller lists, among others. She lives in Manhattan and on Martha's Vineyard.

Full Series List in Order

Alexandra Cooper

1 - Final Jeopardy (Jun-1996)
2 - Likely to Die (Jun-1997)
3 - Cold Hit (Aug-1999)
4 - The Deadhouse (Sep-2001)
5 - The Bone Vault (Jan-2003)
6 - The Kills (Jan-2004)
7 - Entombed (Jan-2005)
8 - Death Dance (Jan-2006)
9 - Bad Blood (Jan-2007)
10 - Killer Heat (Jan-2008)
11 - Lethal Legacy (Feb-2009)
12 - Hell Gate (Mar-2010)
13 - Silent Mercy (Mar-2011)
14 - Night Watch (Jul-2012)
15 - Death Angel (Aug-2013)
16 - Terminal City (Jun-2014)
17 - Devil's Bridge (Aug-2015)
18 - Killer Look (Jul-2016)
19 - Deadfall (Jun-2017)
19 - Blood Oath (Jan-2019)

The Devlin Quick Mysteries

1 - Into the Lion's Den (Nov-2016)
2 - Digging For Trouble (Nov-2017)
3 - Secrets from the Deep (Nov-2018)

Book List in Order: 26 titles

  • Sabers in the Wind

    It’s August in New York, and the only thing that’s hotter than the pavement is Manhattan D.A. Alex Cooper’s professional and personal life. Just as she’s claiming an especially gratifying victory in a rape case, she gets the call: the body of...

  • Final Jeopardy

    Alexandra Cooper - 1

    Alexandra Cooper, Manhattans top sex-crimes 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...

  • Likely to Die

    Alexandra Cooper - 2

    The real-life work of sex-crimes prosecutor Linda Fairstein brought "riveting authenticity" (Vanity Fair) to her bestselling debut novel, Final Jeopardy. Now Fairstein's fictional counterpart -- smart and savvy assistant D.A. Alexandra Cooper -- retu...

  • Going Under

    in The Plot Thickens

    Joining together for a good cause brings out the best in today's top mystery and suspense writers! For this marvelously entertaining anthology, these outstanding contributors rose to a unique literary challenge: each penned a tale that ingeniously fe...

  • Cold Hit

    Alexandra Cooper - 3

    Renowned sex-crimes prosecutor and bestselling author Linda Fairstein sends her acclaimed heroine--the marvelously stylish and steely-nerved D.A. Alexandra Cooper--on a breathless hunt for a killer inside New York City's glitzy art world. Alexandr...

  • The Deadhouse

    Alexandra Cooper - 4

    Assistant D.A. Alexandra Cooper is back--in this page-turning New York Times bestseller from legendary Manhattan sex-crimes prosecutor Linda Fairstein. Roosevelt Island, a strip of land in New York City's East River, stands an abandoned 19th centu...

  • The Bone Vault

    Alexandra Cooper - 5

    In the Metropolitan Museum of Art's exquisite Temple of Dendur, a monument to an ancient world, a very modern debate is raging at a gala dinner: a controversial new exhibit is fiercely opposed by many among the upper echelon of museum donors. Alex Co...

  • The Kills

    Alexandra Cooper - 6

    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 o...

  • I'd Kill For That

    in I'd Kill For That

    WHEN DEALING WITH THE RICH... On the banks of the scenic Truxton River, nestled in rolling woodlands just minutes away from our nation's capital, lies Gryphon Gate, a premier gated community. But tempers flare and tension grows when someone decides ...



  • Entombed

    Alexandra Cooper - 7

    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 ...

  • Death Dance

    Alexandra Cooper - 8

    Murder at the Metropolitan Opera House pulls Alexandra Cooper behind the scenes at Lincoln Center--and into the cutthroat conglomerate that controls the city's theaters. Joe Berk, the powerful head of the Berk Organization, was the lover of world-cla...

  • Bad Blood

    Alexandra Cooper - 9

    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...

  • Killer Heat

    Alexandra Cooper - 10

    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...

  • Lethal Legacy

    Alexandra Cooper - 11

    When Assistant District Attorney Alex Cooper is summoned to Tina Barr's apartment on Manhattan's Upper East Side, she finds a neighbor convinced that the young woman has been assaulted. But the terrified victim, a conservator of rare books and maps, ...

  • Hell Gate

    Alexandra Cooper - 12

    New York City politics have always been filled with intrigue and behind-the-scenes deals. In Hell Gate, Alex finds her attention torn between investigating a shipwreck that has contraband cargo-human cargo-and the political sex scandal of a promising...

  • Silent Mercy

    Alexandra Cooper - 13

    New York Times bestselling author Linda Fairstein is at her explosive best as she plunges into the byzantine world of New York City's most powerful and sacred institutions -- and unearths the most sinister of secrets.... Prosecutor Alexandra Coope...

  • Night Watch

    Alexandra Cooper - 14

    Fine dining and murder go hand in hand in New York Times bestselling author Linda Fairstein's breathtaking new suspense novel inspired by recent real-life events. Forty-eight hours after Alexandra Cooper arrives in France to visit her boyfriend fa...

  • Death Angel

    Alexandra Cooper - 15

    Perennial New York Times bestselling crime novelist Linda Fairstein explores the rich-- and little-known-- history of New York’s City’s Central Park in her latest Alexandra Cooper novel, Death Angel. When the body of a young woman is discover...

  • Terminal City

    Alexandra Cooper - 16

    Assistant DA Alexandra Cooper returns in the new breakneck thriller by the New York Times bestselling author of Death Angel who once again captures the essence of New York City -- its glamour, its history, its possibilities, and its endless capacity ...



  • Devil's Bridge

    Alexandra Cooper - 17

    In her seventeenth Alexandra Cooper thriller, New York Times bestselling author Linda Fairstein takes readers where they have never been before: Inside the mind of NYPD Detective Mike Chapman. The Manhattan waterfront is one of New York City’s m...

  • Killer Look

    Alexandra Cooper - 18

    New York Times bestselling author Linda Fairstein delivers a heart-pounding thriller that explores the dark secrets of Manhattan's iconic fashion scene in her latest Alexandra Cooper novel. New York City is one of the fashion capitals of the ...

  • Into the Lion's Den

    The Devlin Quick Mysteries - 1

    Watch out, Nancy Drew -- Devlin Quick is smart, strong, and she will DEFINITELY close the case in this thrilling new mystery series for girls and boys from New York Times bestselling author Linda Fairstein Someone has stolen a page from a rare boo...

  • Deadfall

    Alexandra Cooper - 19

    Hunting a killer within New York’s urban jungle becomes the biggest case of Alexandra Cooper’s career in New York Times bestselling author Linda Fairstein’s latest riveting thriller. A wild heart beats within New York City. Amid concrete an...

  • Digging For Trouble

    The Devlin Quick Mysteries - 2

    Twelve-year-old supersleuth Devlin Quick heads to Montana to dig out dinosaur bones, but instead she uncovers a mystery in this second book in the thrilling series from New York Times bestselling author Linda Fairstein After successfully apprehend...

  • Secrets from the Deep

    The Devlin Quick Mysteries - 3

    In the third Devlin Quick adventure from internationally bestselling author Linda Fairstein, Dev goes to Martha's Vineyard for rest, relaxation...and a hidden pirate treasure! It's the end of summer, and Devlin Quick is invited to join her best fr...

  • Blood Oath

    Alexandra Cooper - 19

    New York Times bestselling author Linda Fairstein returns with a timely, captivating thriller about the deep--and often deadly--reverberations of past sins. Linda Fairstein is the queen of intelligent suspense, cleverly interweaving shocking crime...

Award-Winning Books by Linda Fairstein

The Deadhouse
2002 Nero Wolfe Award -- Novel
Entombed
2005 RT Reviewers Choice Award -- PI Novel


Frequently Asked Questions (FAQ)

Linda Fairstein has published 26 books.

Linda Fairstein does not have a new book coming out soon. The latest book, Blood Oath, was published in January 2019.

The first book by Linda Fairstein, Sabers in the Wind, was published in January 1981.

Yes. Linda Fairstein has 2 series.
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