Night Watch: Alexandra Cooper, Book 14

AWESOME! Rebecca Stewart This reader is glad that Alex and Luc have pretty much gone their separate ways. I am ALL ABOUT Alex and Detective Mike Chapman hooking up permanently! Most, if not all of the best marriages begin first with a great friendship. Well, Alex and Mike have been best friends for ten years! Enough already, Ms. Fairstein!. "not up to her others" according to M. Poller. The book has two plots that are very loosely connected to Luc, Alex's current boyfriend. The setting begins in France and then NYC where Alex has to work hard in her job as prosecutor in the rape of a hotel maid by a wealthy Frenchman with an African background. This is based on t he real story which gripped the world a year ago an d frankly was more exciting. This one ends. Not up to par Ms Fairstein! This is one of my favourite series and I was disappointed. To be honest I found it tedious and Alex seemed to be to easily buffetted by events around her. I love Coop when she is cool calm and collected. Also the endless squabbling with Mike left me cold, usually the dialogue between the 2 characters keeps the books moving along and makes for some large laughs . At times th

New York Times best-selling author Linda Fairstein returns with a ripped-from-the-headlines thriller that takes Alexandra Cooper into the dark underside of New York City's most storied restaurants and a murder case spanning continents. Mohammed Gil-Darsin, the distinguished and wealthy Head of the World Economic Bureau, has been arrested and accused of attacking a maid in his hotel. The only evidence discovered on the body is one of Luc's matchboxes promoting his new restaurant in New York. A second body is found with Luc's matchbox - this time in Brooklyn - and Alex begins to fear that the two cases may not be as unrelated as she thought, and that uncovering the sordid secrets of the city's most wealthy and powerful could cost her and her loved ones everything they hold dear.. In her 13 best sellers, Linda Fairstein has taken millions of fans inside sinister worlds that most of us can't even imagine. As the world watches in fascination to see how the scandal will unfold, Alex finds her attention torn between