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Written by Linda Fairstein - audio book performed by Blair Brown - Abridged Fiction - 5 COMPACT DISCS - 5.5 hours

Publisher, Simon & Schuster Audioworks (January 2007)

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It's going to be a tough trial. Manhattan sex-crimes prosecutor Alexandra Cooper's case, involving an attack on investment banker Paige Vallis, would be difficult to prove without the latest development -- it seems that Paige has something to hide.

While Alex learns more of the sad details behind this increasingly puzzling rape case, colleague Mike Chapman is uptown in a decaying Harlem brownstone where 82-year-old McQueen "Queenie" Ransome has been murdered, her apartment ransacked.

Queenie's murder is only the first. Others follow, as the tragic strands of the Paige Vallis and McQueen Ransome cases converge in a poignant alliance of two women from very different worlds. Faced with formidable personal and professional choices, Alex faces a showdown where her wits and courage will be tested as never before.

With a winning combination of courtroom drama and historical detail, The Kills is stylish writing from a crime-writing star.

About the Author: Linda Fairstein, America's foremost expert on crimes of sexual assault and domestic violence, led the Sex Crimes Unit of the District Attorney's Office in Manhattan for twenty-five years. A Fellow of the American College of Trial Lawyers, she is a graduate of Vassar College and the University of Virginia School of Law. Her first novel, Final Jeopardy, introduced the critically acclaimed character of Alexandra Cooper and was made into an ABC Movie of the Week starring Dana Delaney. Her celebrated series has gone on to include the international bestseller Likely to Die and the New York Times bestsellers Cold Hit, The Deadhouse (chosen as a Best Book of 2001 by both The Washington Post and the Los Angeles Times), and The Bone Vault. Her nonfiction book, Sexual Violence, was a New York Times notable book in 1994. She lives with her husband in Manhattan and on Martha's Vineyard.

About the Performer: Blair Brown appeared on Broadway in Copenhagen (Tony Award), Cabaret, James Joyce's The Dead and Arcadia. Her film credits include Dogville, Space Cowboys, and Altered States. On television, she starred in The Days and Nights of Molly Dodd and has appeared on ER, Smallville and CSI: Miami. Ms. Brown has narrated over 50 documentary films and audiobooks.