Linda Fairstein: How I Met My Detective
I met NYPD homicide detective first grade Mike Chapman “on the job,” as New York City cops like to say.
I became a prosecutor in the Manhattan District 
Attorney’s Office back in 1972, when there were only seven women on a legal staff of two hundred lawyers. The legendary DA who hired me – Frank Hogan – told me the work of the criminal justice system was too tawdry for women, but obviously I thrived on tawdriness and stayed in the office for 30 years. I ran the country’s first Special Victims Unit, and from the moment I was assigned my first felony case, I found the qualities of the detective who would later take shape as my fictional protagonist.
Death Angel is the explosive new page turner featuring Assistant DA Alex Cooper. In Death Angel, bestseller Linda Fairstein explores the rich – and little-known – history of New York’s City’s Central Park with a shocking realism and authenticity that only her plots can deliver.
'Maybe she blessed the waters a century ago, but now she's a magnet for murder. She's an angel all right,' Mike said, staring at the beautiful sunlit figure that towered over us. 'A death angel.'
In New York's Central Park, Assistant DA Alexandra Cooper and Detective Mike Chapman race to track down a serial killer before yet another young woman is found dead.
The enormous urban park, a sanctuary in the middle of the city for thousands of New Yorkers and tourists who fill it every day, may very well become a hunting ground at night for a killer with a twisted mind . . .
Once again, Linda Fairstein thrills with an explosive page-turner filled with a shocking realism that only she can deliver.
