Linda Fairstein, America's foremost prosecutor of crimes of sexual assault and domestic violence, has run the Sex Crimes Prosecution Unit of the District Attorney's Office in Manhattan for almost three decades. A Fellow of the American College of Trial Lawyers, she is a graduate of Vassar College and the University of Virginia School of Law. She is the author of three earlier international bestselling Alexandra Cooper novels, Final Jeopardy, Likely to Die, and Cold Hit as well as the nonfiction book Sexual Violence, a New York Times Notable Book in 1994 She lives with her husband in Manhattan and on Martha's Vineyard.