BLOOD OATH
by
Linda Fairstein
Blood Oath, the twentieth (20th) book in
Linda Fairstein’s Alexandra Cooper series, will be released on March 26, 2019.
And, this milestone book is a blockbuster.
After some
difficult times and a leave of absence, Alex Cooper returns to work. She meets
Lucy Jenner, a young woman who had been a witness to murder ten years earlier.
Something had happened to Lucy while she was a witness; something untoward,
committed by someone who had a great deal of power and prestige. As Alex delves
into the events and tries to find the truth about what had happened to Lucy,
the danger rises and threatens Alex and those close to her.
I have
always enjoyed Fairstein’s Alexandra Cooper series. The books present good
mysteries with some history mixed in and are well written. In Blood Oath, the history component deals
with Rockefeller University, a prestigious and somewhat secretive research
institute and hospital in New York City. In many of the books, the police have
a murder and Alex helps them resolve the case. But, Blood Oath feels a bit different. Fairstein seems to have returned
to her roots, so to speak. Although there is still overlap between the police
and their case and Alex and her legal work – as one would expect to find with
an attorney working for the district attorneys office – this book focuses on
Alex's work as an attorney. There is a sense of realism, or authenticity,
that permeates the book.
In Blood Oath, Alex is back – and back with
a vengeance. Fairstein is back, too. She has put together a powerful, awe
inspiring book that goes beyond the “normal” good quality found in her
Alexandra Cooper series.
My one
regret is that my Blood Oath reading
experience is over. Blood Oath is
truly one of Fairstein’s finest.
