Synopses & Reviews
The
New York Times bestselling author and renowned former Manhattan prosecutor follows her Nero Award-winning
The Deadhouse with a new Alexandra Cooper novel set at the crossroads of big money, high culture, and murder?
Wealthy donors have gathered in the Metropolitan Museum of Art's glorious Temple of Dendur to celebrate a controversial new exhibit. An uneasy mix of scholarship, showbiz, and aggressive marketing, "A Modern Bestiary" has raised fierce opposition from some of New York's museum elite.
Assistant D.A. Alex Cooper observes the developing tensions with bemused interest until Met director Pierre Thibodaux pulls her aside. A 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.
Alex must explore behind the scenes at the elegant but severe Metropolitan, travel uptown to the remote setting of the Cloisters, 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.
Atmospheric, chilling, and rich with procedural authenticity, The Bone Vault is a tour de force from one of crime writing's brightest stars.
Synopsis
When a sarcophagus is opened during a glamorous donor gala at the Metropolitan Museum of Art, Manhattan Assistant DA Alex Cooper is on hand to find that the mummy is gone, replaced by the very recently deceased Katrina Grooten. Abridged. 5 CDs.
About the Author
Linda Fairstein was for twenty-five years America's foremost prosecutor of crimes of sexual assault and domestic violence as head of the Sex Crimes Unit of the Manhattan District Attorney's Office. A Fellow of the American College of Trial Lawyers, she is a graduate of Vassar College and the University of Virginia School of Law. Recipient of the prestigious Nero Wolfe Award for "literary excellence in the mystery genre" for
The Deadhouse, she is also the author of
Final Jeopardy, Likely to Die and
Cold Hit. Her nonfiction book,
Sexual Violence, was a
New York Times notable book in 1994. She lives with her husband in Manhattan and on Martha's Vineyard.
Visit her website at www.lindafairstein.com.