One day, Ruby Rubenstein, the owner of a fruit-and-vegetable store on Delano Street, is too sick to come into work, and it is up to his capable assistant, Sun Ho, to take his place.
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When a little girl is shot on the steps of a San Francisco church, Detective Lindsay Boxer know's it's time to reconvene the "Women's Murder Club". Reporter Cindy Thomas, assistant DA Jill Bernhardt and medical examiner Claire Washburn, along with Lindsay soon track down a mystifying killer.
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The Kills
The title of the newest installment in Fairstein's Alexandra Cooper crime series (The Bone Vault; The Deadhouse; Final Jeopardy) refers not only to the several bodies that turn up in the course of the novel but to the creeks and channels that crisscross the watery periphery of Lower Manhattan. From her downtown office-and with the aid of NYPD detectives Mike Chapman and Mercer Wallace-the doughty assistant DA tackles a complicated case, the rape of 36-year-old Paige Vallis. Psychotic Andrew Tripping is accused of the rape as well as of the physical and mental abuse of his own 10-year-old son, Dulles.
In different parts of London, three recruits prepare for their first day at the Metropolitan Police's training centre at Hendon. All three had succeeded in getting into the police in spite of weaknesses. But on their first day, the assistant commissioner announces that he wants them to join a team of undercover detectives. Their brief?
