Have you ever wondered about the secret rooms and tunnels of old buildings? How about the New York Public Library? What a setting for a mystery! Get ready for a fast-paced story of valuable first editions, lost atlases and scary tours of those underground library places. Linda Fairstein’s eleventh Alex Cooper crime novel is due out in February. In Lethal Legacy, assistant District Attorney Cooper is called to investigate an alleged assault and then a murder on Manhattan’s Upper East Side. The trail of clues leads to the New York Public Library. As usual, Fairstein brings her extensive legal experience to the telling. She ran the Sex Crimes of the District Attorney’s Office in Manhattan for over twenty years, but always wanted to be a writer. Her decision to attend law school was made to please her father, who did not regard writing as a way to make a living. Fairstein has proven him wrong with eleven popular fiction books and one non-fiction.
If you enjoy crime novels, try Fairstein. Her website is quite interesting; it even includes a list of the NYC restuarants (on the FAQ page) she likes and mentions in her novels.
If you prefer True Crime, come to the Library on Sunday September 28 at 2 pm to hear Kathryn Harrison talk about her newest book While They Slept.After a lifetime of physical and mental abuse, a young man in the midwest killed his family. Harrison examines the crime, its aftermath and the lives of the survivors- one a convicted murderer and his sister an orphan trying to rebuild her life. While They Slept has been compared to Truman Capote’s In Cold Blood and Norman Mailer’s The Executioner’s Song. Harrison’s previous books established her reputation as edgy and shockingly candid about her own family, good selections for book clubs looking for a non-fiction book to provoke discussion. Her website.
