Blood Oath

October 15, 2018

New York Times best-selling author Fairstein hands Assistant DA Alex Cooper another topical case, as a woman who testified years ago at a key federal trial discloses that she was sexually assaulted by a prominent law enforcement official at the time. That pulls Alex and NYPD detectives Mike Chapman and Mercer Wallace into dark secrets involving biomedical research at Manhattan's famed Rockefeller University. With a five-city tour.

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February 15, 2019
Alex Cooper returns to work as head of the Manhattan Sex Crimes Unit after her mentor Paul Battaglia's murder (in Deadfall, 2017), and is greeted by a political maelstrom of attorneys jockeying to fill the DA power vacuum. Alex's determination to avoid the fray is thwarted by a new case: Lucy Jenner reveals that when she was 14 and the star witness in a highly publicized trial, she was raped by a federal prosecutor. Zachary Jake Palmer used his role to groom and, finally, assault her, forcing her to take a blood oath of silence. Now, Palmer is making a heavy-handed bid for the DA's office. As Alex painstakingly works to corroborate Lucy's recollections, her public-defender friend, Frances Fain, is poisoned. Alex discovers a link between Jenner and Fain but may be too late to stop a killer from silencing all three of them. A fast-paced battle of wits leading to a hair-raising climax in NYC's Rockefeller University medical research facility; series fans will get what they came for here.HIGH-DEMAND BACKSTORY: Fairstein is an A-lister with a proven track record for sales and for accumulating library reserves.(Reprinted with permission of Booklist, copyright 2019, American Library Association.)