FINAL JEOPARDY: The days of Assistant DA Alexandra Cooper often start of badly, but she's never faced the morning by reading her own obituary before. It doesn't take long to sort out why it was printed: a woman's body with her face blown away, left in a car rented in Alex's name in the drive of her weekend home. But it isn't so easy to work out why her lodger was murdered - or to be sure that the killer had found the right victim ... LIKELY TO DIE: A leading neurosurgeon is found in her office at a New York hospital, soaked in her own blood and rightly considered a case 'likely to die' before she can be got to the operating theatre. She has also been sexually assaulted and Alexandra Cooper is asked to trawl her records for any cases where a similar modus operandi was used. But before she can properly study the files she has isolated she realises that someone is fearful of her knowledge and that she, too, might be 'likely to die'.
When the burnt headless body of a young woman is found on the steps of a Baptist Church in Harlem, Assistant DA Alexandra Cooper is one of the first on the shocking scene.
When Assistant DA Alexandra Cooper is summoned to Tina Barr's apartment she finds a neighbour convinced that the young woman has been assaulted.
In the middle of a trial involving a businessman charged with murdering his wife, Manhattan prosecutor Alexandra Cooper is summoned to investigate an explosion of unknown origin 600 feet below street level when it is traced back to her case ...
In New York's Central Park, Assistant DA Alex Cooper and Detective Mike Chapman race to track down a serial killer before yet another young woman is found dead.
This is another spine-tingling thriller from the author of 'Final Jeopardy', 'Likely To Die', 'Cold Hit' and 'The Bone Vault'.