The Deadhouse

Author: Linda Fairstein
Stars: 3
Review by:  Mary NK

Fairstein, chief prosecutor in Manhattan's Sex Crimes Unit, once more combines her insight into the criminal's and victim's minds with her love of all things NYC. Deadhouse focuses on an elite university with ties to historic "hospitals" where immigrants and prisoners were once detained along with patients. When a controversial professor is found strangled in an elevator shaft, and a research assistant goes missing, DA Alexandra Cooper races to find the girl, the connection, and the killer in a crowd of jealous & secretive academics. Woven into the plot are Cooper's love life (or lack thereof), her abiding friendship with detectives Mike Chapman and Mercer Wallace, and a plethora of trivia about The Big Apple.