- Paperback: 465 pages
- Publisher: Pocket Books (June 2005)
- Language: English
- ISBN-10: 1416503323
- ISBN-13: 978-1416503323
- Product Dimensions: 17 x 10.6 x 3.6 cm
- Shipping Weight: 240 g
- Amazon Bestsellers Rank: #1,834,896 in Books (See Top 100 in Books)
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The specter of Edgar Allan Poe hovers, chillingly, over bestseller Fairstein's seventh thriller featuring Manhattan sex crimes prosecutor Alexandra Cooper. Alex's labyrinthine path to a serial killer travels through a lot of forensic evidence and two initially unconnected cases: the Silk Stocking rapist is terrorizing women after a few years' respite and a woman's skeleton is discovered in the wall of an East Village building. Said discovery takes on additional dimension when it's learned that the victim was walled up alive and that the house was once inhabited by Poe. Freelance writer Emily Upshaw appears, at first glance, to be the Silk Stocking rapist's latest victim, but several details feel off to Alex and NYPD detective sidekicks Mike Chapman and Mercer Wallace. Emily, it's determined, is the victim of a copycat, but she does have a tenuous link to Poe and to a secret organization called the Raven Society. These are the puzzle pieces that Alex and company work with, in a tale that develops like the proverbial peeled onion, a layer at a time. Alex, fresh from a breakup, also continues her unconsummated flirtation with Mike. It's a tribute to Fairstein's integrity and her clear, measured prose that the novel never tips into prurience. Her methodical presentation of authentic detail engages reader interest more than narrative flourish or cheap thrills. She's the real deal.
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From Booklist
Alexandra Cooper returns in another case featuring two seemingly unrelated crimes that the talented sex-crimes prosecutor is hell-bent on connecting. A serial rapist is terrorizing Manhattan's tony Upper East Side. Dubbed the Silk Stocking rapist, his usual M.O. is to terrorize the victim but not kill her. When one girl winds up dead, Alex and her trusted detective partners, Mercer Wallace and Mike Chapman, believe that perhaps a copycat perpetrator is out there who takes his crimes one step further. At the same time, Alex becomes obsessed with the stories of Edgar Allan Poe, especially after a young person's skeleton is found in an old home Poe once inhabited. Could that victim's killer still be on the loose, and, by some strange turn of fate, be connected to the Silk Stocking assaults? Fairstein pays homage to the great Poe with a complicated, intriguing account involving the underbelly of New York and a strange group of Poe enthusiasts who would do anything to gain the respect of their similarly obsessed peers. Creepy and oh-so-much fun. Mary Frances Wilkens
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Fairstein's Best Ever, Jan 5 2005
By Wilkie Collins - Published on Amazon.com
This review is from: Entombed (Hardcover)
I confess I'm a great fan of the Alex Cooper series because Fairstein, a former prosecutor, combines her vast knowledge of the criminal justice system with appealing characters, great plots, and a breezy, fast-paced style. In this book she outdoes herself. She reveals a hidden story about Edgar Allen Poe and gives us a glimpse into one of the great New York landmarks -- also a Fairstein specialty. It's fun, informative and truly frightening, worthy of the master to whom it pays homage. Be prepared to stay up all night.
11 of 11 people found the following review helpful
4.0 out of 5 stars
Much Better!, Jun 19 2005
By Wendy Kaplan - Published on Amazon.com
This review is from: Entombed (Hardcover)
Unlike the last few in Fairstein's Alexandra Cooper series, this one really held my interest, as the plot is wound around the tales of Edgar Allen Poe.When a decades-old skeleton is found entombed behind a brick wall in a home where Poe once lived, and it is ascertained that the corpse was buried alive, Poe's tales become all too real. Alex, Mercer and Chapman are quickly caught up in this very cold case that becomes hotter by the second as they uncover a mysterious Poe society, all of whose members could have been invented by the master himself.
Entwined with that interesting mystery is another case Alex has on her plate: the return of the so-called "Silk-Stocking Rapist," who terrorized women on the East Side of New York, and then mysteriously disappeared without ever having been caught. Now, it seems, he is back, and Alex, head of the DA's Sex Crimes Unit, is desperate to catch him.
I truly enjoyed this book and am glad that Fairstein seems back on track like she was in her early works. Recommended.
9 of 9 people found the following review helpful
2.0 out of 5 stars
POE IS THE ANSWER...WHAT WAS THE QUESTION???, Aug 11 2007
By Red Rock Bookworm - Published on Amazon.com
This review is from: Entombed: A Novel (Paperback)
Fairstein's epistle gives the reader a lot of information to chew on and digest. First, we have the return of a rapist who has been strangely silent for the past four years, as well as a series of seemingly unconnected murders. When workmen demolishing a 19th century brownstone that was once the home of Edgar Allan Poe discover the body of a woman buried upright behind a brick wall it appears that "life is imitating art" and someone has taken a page out of a Poe novel.Utilizing the search for the dual criminals as the "background" for the story, Fairstein takes us on a tour of the Bronx. She gives us an up close and personal look at the Botanical Gardens which contains 50 acres of forest, the waterfalls of the Bronx River Gorge, a "crystal palace" conservatory containing 17,000 glass panes, and the first Hall of Fame in America (an outdoor vista containing 98 bronze busts of Great Americans ranging from poets, to jurists, to soldiers).
And I thought Central Park was the only touch of green in NYC.
The garden, she tells us, was once owned by P. Lorillard, tobacco scion, and contains an old snuff mill as well as Poe cottage, where Poe lived with his wife/cousin until her death. (And now you have the "connector" between the Bronx Botanical Tour and the murderer who feels a kinship with Poe and commits his crimes according to macabre Poe plots).
Fairstein fleshes out her rather thin plot with loads of in depth facts and observations about everything from Fordham University to the Gould Library. All of the "facts" that liberally pepper the book could serve as the basis for a plethora of Jeopardy final questions (a game that her alter ego, Alex Cooper, and friends Mike and Mercer are rather fond of playing).
Emtombed is more a guided tour of the Bronx and a look at Poe's sad existance than the murder mystery with gothic overtones I'm sure it was meant to be.
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