The Bone Vault

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 prior to her retirement in 2002. A fellow of the American College of Trial Lawyers, she is a graduate of Vassar College and the University of Virgina 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 in 1997,Cold Hit in 1999, andThe Deadhouse in 2001 also achieved international-bestseller status. Her nonfiction bookSexual Violence was aNew York Times Notable Book in 1994. She lives with her husband in Manhattan and on Martha’s Vineyard.