Join us at New Canaan Library on Thursday, April 7 at 5:30 p.m. as Linda Fairstein presents Devil’s Bridge.

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 most magnificent vistas, boasting both the majestic Statue of Liberty and the George Washington Bridge, the world’s busiest span for motor vehicles.

But in Devil’s Bridge, Detective Mike Chapman will discover the peril that lurks along this seemingly benign expanse as he takes on his most personal case yet: the disappearance of Alex Cooper.

Coop’s sudden disappearance is fraught with terrifying complications: scores of enemies she has made after a decade of putting criminals behind bars; a recent security breach with dangerous repercussions; and a new intimacy in her relationship with Mike, causing the Police Commissioner himself to be wary of the methods Mike will use to get Coop back… if he can.

The event will begin with a light reception followed by an author talk plus Q&A.  Devil’s Bridge and other select titles from Fairstein will be available for sale provided by Elm Street Books.

Register for this program HERE.

Linda Fairstein – lawyer, former prosecutor, and internationally best-selling crime novelist – is one of America’s foremost legal experts on crimes of violence against women and children. For three decades, Fairstein served in the office of the New York County District Attorney, where she was chief of the country’s pioneering Sex Crimes Prosecution Unit.

In that position, she supervised the investigation and trial of Manhattan cases involving sexual assault, domestic violence, child abuse, and homicides arising out of those crimes. Fairstein is an honors graduate of Vassar College (1969) and the University of Virginia School of Law (1972).

 

She has received numerous awards for her legal work and advocacy, and in many instances, was the first woman to be so honored. In 2010, Fairstein was awarded the New York Women’s Agenda Lifetime Achievement Award for her domestic violence work, and the Silver Bullet Award of the International Thriller Writers.

In addition to her NYT best-selling series of crime novels, she is the author of a non-fiction work, Sexual Violence: Our War Against Rape (1993), which was a New York Times Notable Book of the Year. The eighteenth novel in the Alexandra Cooper series, Killer Look, will be released in July 2016. Additionally, Fairstein is embarking on a new writing venture for young readers to debut in November 2016.

— an announcement from New Canaan Library