Entombed

About The Author

Linda Fairstein, America 's foremost legal expert on crimes of sexual assault and domestic violence, led the Sex Crimes Prosecution Unit of the District Attorney's Office in Manhattan for twenty-five years, leaving in 2002 to write, lecture, and continue her advocacy for victims of violent crime. A Fellow of the American College of Trial Lawyers and a member of the International Society of Barristers, she is a graduate of Vassar College and the University of Virginia School of Law. Her first novel, Final Jeopardy, which introduced the character Alexandra Cooper, was published in 1996 to critical and commercial acclaim and was made into an ABC Movie of the Week starring Dana Delaney. Likely to Die, Cold Hit, The Deadhouse, The Bone Vault, and her most recent novel, The Kills, also achieved international bestseller status. 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.