Night Watch (Alexandra Cooper, #14)

Night Watch (Alexandra Cooper #14)

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New York Times bestselling author Linda Fairstein returns with a ripped-from-the-headlines thriller that takes Alexandra Cooper into the dark underside of New York City’s most storied restaurants and a murder case spanning continents.



In her thirteen bestsellers, Linda Fairstein has taken millions of fans inside sinister worlds that most of us can’t even imagine. Thanks to...more
Hardcover, 416 pages
Published July 10th 2012 by Dutton Adult (first published 2012)
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Shelley aka Gizmo's Reviews
*Genre* Mystery/Thriller
*Rating* 3.0

*Review*

This series has been on my TBR listing for many years now. I haven't missed one book in the series and figure that there are plenty of stories to come that won't be boring or repetitive.

The main reason that I like this series is that Fairstein explores the history in and around the City of New York and she actually has the knowledge of the office of Manhattan's Sex Crimes Unit behind her (20 years). While the story is supposed to be about Alexandra Co...more
Marleen
In reality I rated this book 4.5 stars.

As may be clear from the book description, this is one action packed story. With not one but two separate but high profile and complicated mysteries to deal with our Alex has a very stressful time ahead of her. And both story-lines are interesting, well plotted and full of twists and turns. But – and since I didn’t rate this book 5 stars you must have been expecting the “but” – both parts of the story also managed to disappoint me a little bit.

As far as the...more
Jacqueline Corcoran
Alexandra Cooper is visiting her French restaurateur boyfriend when she discovers skulls outside her boyfriend’s house and a dead body. Predictably, she becomes embroiled and doesn’t like the way the police handles the case, which gets her on the wrong side of her boyfriend.

Meanwhile, her boss is frantically trying to get her to return prematurely from her vacation to become involved in a rape case. Yes, Alexandra is that important, even though when she gets back, all she can do is advise from...more
Gloria Feit
Two characteristics of the Alex Cooper series are a crime based on real events and inclusion of some landmark or aspect of New York City. This novel is no exception. The crime is a thinly disguised recap of the Dominique Strauss-Kahn affair in which the former managing director of the World Bank was accused by a hotel chamber-maid of attempted rape. The landmark is a loose one in this case, the former renowned restaurant Lutece, allowing the author to include a lot about the eatery business.

The...more
Judie
The latest of Linda Fairstein’s Alexandra Cooper series begins with the NYC Prosecutor escaping work for a one-week vacation in France to spend with her love interest, Luc Rouget, a famed restauranteur. Two days later, the body of a young woman is discovered in a pond. The only identification is a matchbook from the restaurant Luc is planning to open in Manhatten. Before Alex can get involved in the case, she is called back to New York by her boss to work on an alleged rape case involving the i...more
Marya Kowal
So disappointed.

I was looking for a gripping police procedural, or at least a crime thriller, and I got a french swamp.

No, I'm not talking about where they found the body. The author seems to think that the French are naturally rude and cryptic while using stilted dialog and a whiny and argumentative first person internal narrative that make reading this book feel like you are taking a stroll in a swamp, with your forward progress getting sucked down, shoes lost, and muck everywhere. Ugh.

One of...more
Kate
Oct 03, 2012 Kate rated it 5 of 5 stars Recommends it for: crime novel, suspense
Recommended to Kate by: my husband
The plot forms a dramatic background for exploration of the bond between Alexandra Cooper and her French restaurateur lover, Luc Roget. Their long-distance relationship is viewed through the lens of imperfect transcontinental communications and the stresses of their demanding, high-profile careers. Their worlds intersect the most when they both need it the least - which is a simplistic way of saying "I am trying hard to avoid spoilers here". The flow of words and vivid descriptions of the variou...more
Laraine
This is the fourth book I have read in the Alex Cooper series and I have liked all of them. Ms Fairstein delivers her mystery and crime stories woven around well-known New York City (NYC) cultural and other well known institutions and establishments.

This story connects her French boyfriend in the restaurant industry with the NYC legend Lutece (for those of you who might also be native New Yorkers or may remember this famous restaurant with its roots in France) but also brings a recent events--al...more
Nancy
Thoroughly enjoyed this book. Just love this series. Kept you enthralled during the whole book.

Forty-eight hours after Alexandra Cooper arrives in France to visit her boyfriend and famed restaurateur, Luc Rouget, her vacation in paradise is cut short when a young woman from the village is found murdered. The only evidence discovered on the body is one of Luc’s matchboxes promoting his new restaurant in New York. But before the investigation begins, Alex is summoned back to New York to handle a h...more
Mysterious Ed
#14 in the NYC ADA Alexandra Cooper series. Alex Cooper is the ADA in charge of sex crimes in the NYC DA's office (a role held by the author for more than two decades). As does the author, Alex has a home on Martha's Vinyard, MA, where she met French restaurateur, Luc Rouget (Bad Blood (2007)). This novel opens as she is visiting Luc at home in France on a rare vacation. She is soon recalled to New York.
At home is a case with heavy handed comparisons to the actual case when a hotel maid accused...more
Sara
At 400-some pages in length, this was a meaty book. Although at times the book was slow going, you can't help but want to finish it to figure out how all of the pieces of the puzzle come together and find out who is really doing what and why.
I really loved the very intricate story line of the book because the author gives you all these bits of information and you don't know if they all fit together as one large crime story or if there are in fact, two separate crime stories happening at the sam...more
Luanne Ollivier
3.5/5

Linda Fairstein's latest release, Night Watch, marks the fourteenth book in her highly successful Alex Cooper series.

This has been one of my favourite crime series over the years. Alex works in the New York P.D. Sex Crimes Unit. Fairstein herself Linda Fairstein was chief of the Sex Crimes Unit of the district attorney’s office in Manhattan for more than two decades and is a legal expert on sexual assault and domestic violence. This gives her novels that unmistakable ring of truth and atte...more
Kelly Robinson
The Alexandra Cooper series by Linda Fairstein is one of my favorites and never fails to disappoint. While I greatly enjoyed the story, it did seem slightly off. The story begins with Alex in France visiting her celebrity-chef boyfriend Luc, owner of a Michelin starred restaurant in France. Luc is hoping to expand to the restaurant business in NY, where Alex works as a sex crime DA. We haven't gotten to know Luc much in previous stories, and when things on vacation start to go awry (bodies and b...more
Mary
This is the 14th Alexandra Cooper mystery, and probably not my most favorite. Alexandra Cooper is a sex crimes prosecutor in the Manhattan DA's office. Along with Detectives Chapman and Mercer, they form a great team when taking down the bad guys and gals.

This mystery was a little too Law & Order, with a plot ripped from the headlines about the alleged rape of a hotel maid by an important European official. There was a subplot about Alex's boyfriend, Luc, a Frenchman who is looking to open a...more
Kate
I have long been a fan of the Alexandra Cooper novels, although I think I have missed the last few. I gave this two stars because I found it really didn't hit the standard of the previous installments (had it been a stand-alone, I might have given it 3 stars).

Generally an admirer of Alex's character, here I found her to be a shadow of her former self. The relationship between her and Luc seems forced (and why does she consistently hook up with guys who don't respect her career and have massive e...more
Marilyn
I was gifted this advance reader's copy by Dutton Press through Shelfari. This book was a good stand-alone suspense. I loved this book. It was the first Linda Fairstein book for me. The book starts with Alexander Cooper on a well-deserved vacation in France with her love-interest, Luc Rouget. A body turns up in a pond which appears to be connected to Luc Rouget. As a New York prosecutor, she is called back to New York for a high-profile case for the Special Sex Crimes Unit. Within hours another...more
Beth Allen
I really enjoyed Night Watch, the 14th entry in the Alexandra Cooper novels by Linda Fairstein.

Narrated capably by Linda Rosenblat, the audio book kept my interest to and from work every day. Alexandra Cooper's romantic vacation in France with French restaurateur Luc is interrupted by a "get back to the office fast or else" command from her boss, DA Paul Battaglia.

Alex and her colleagues Mike Chapman and Mercer Wallace are up to their necks in rape and death once more. The rape case that Alex a...more
Kathleen Huben
Night Watch, #14 in Fairstein's Alex Cooper series, opens with Alex on vacation in Mougins, France and reflecting on her relationship with French restaurateur Luc Rouget. The next day a young woman is discovered murdered near Mougins and in her pocket is a matchbox from Luc's proposed new restaurant in New York. At the same time the New York D.A. office is urgently summoning Alex to return and help in a high profile rape case. Alex increasingly finds herself torn between a rape case which is fa...more
judy
I was about to write one of my most lethal reviews because I loathe the Luc-Alex storyline. The interactions between these two always strike me as false and forced. Ms. Fairstein writes good mysteries but romances, not so much . The reasons for my higher than usual level of irritation became clear when part way through the book Ms. Fairstein let us know, subtly, that her real life husband had died. If you know anything about her beyond the jacket blurb, you'll know that she had a fantastic marri...more
Ellen
This wasn't my favorite installment in the Alex Cooper series. The story line wasn't as suspenseful as some earlier ones and both Alex Cooper and Mike Chapman have become more irritating. Alex is highly successful in her career, but seems clueless in her personal life. Chapman is downright nasty at times. For a guy who is supposed to be her best friend, he shows little respect for her and constantly points out what she does wrong and how he's always bailing her out. He's misogynistic, but loving...more
Lois
If you enjoy Linda Fairstein this is yet another fine example of what makes her books interesting to read. She does a capable job of combining ont one but two plots this time: the first involving her boyfriend Luc Rouget which starts in France and carries over to New York, and the second a case involving the sex crimes unit back at work in Manhatten. Mercer and Chapman, her two colleagues from work are present, of course. No book would be complete without their banter and professional support. R...more
Dani Johnson
I received this as an advance copy from Good Reads and Dutton Publishing. I had read one of Linda Fairstein's books previously and was very excited to win this one. I've never written a review before so I'll keep in simple. It was mentioned in a previous review that this is too straight from the headlines. I don't keep up with the news so the story was completely new for me and I really enjoyed it. I can usually figure out mystery novels pretty early on and this one kept me guessing. I liked the...more
Teryl
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Dan
Alex Cooper is in France visiting her beau, restaurateur Luc Rouget. While enjoying her stay, a young woman is found murdered and it looks like Luc is the guilty party. But then Alex is called back home to New York when Mohammed Gil Darsin, head of the World Economic Bureau is arrested and accused of rape. Luc is also in the process of opening a new restaurant in New York and when he comes to the States, another body turns up linking Luc to another murder.

Fairstein keeps the thrill going in yet...more
Celia
This is the newest Alexandra Cooper novel. Cooper is an ADAa in New York City speacializing in sex crimes. She doesn't seem able to hold onto a boyfriend, and her most recent lover, a French restauranteur named Luc, turns out to be tied to two muders. Is he the bad guy? As usually, Alex's cop buddies Mike and Mercer do most of the legwork. Mike is getting more and more nasty towards Alex as the series goes on. Either it's frustrated love or too-long-on-the-job syndrome. Anyway it's getting unple...more
Judy
Linda Fairstein does it again.
A great read in the Alexandra Cooper series. Alexandra is in Paris to vist her boyfriend, restaurateur, Luc when the body of a young woman is found dead and matches from Luc's soon-to-be NYC restaurant are found on the body.
Meanwhile back in NYC a hotel maid is raped by a high profile French business man. Sound familiar? Alex's team calls to ask qustions and in a round about way, asks her to return to the States to help.
In Paris things are not what they seem as fa...more
Annie Michelle
This big city suspense novel starts out with old skulls and bones rolling around outside of the home of a famous restaurant owner in the French countryside...
New York city prosecutor Alex Cooper no sooner lands in France to rendezvous with her very famous restaurant owner boyfriend Luc Rouged than an ex-employee of his is found murdered and in her Pocket is a matchbook promoting Luc’s new soon to be open restaurant in New York
Very soon after another body is found but this time in Brooklyn New Y...more
Nancy
Aug 14, 2012 Nancy added it
Alex Cooper is visiting her boyfriend, a restauranteur in France and a young girl is killed with a matchbox of Luc's restaurant in her pocket. In NYC a maid accuses a visiting leader of rape. Alex goes back to NYC to help with the high profile case. Another man is killed with a matchbox of Luc's restaurant in his pocket. Drugs are involved. The leader walks, because the maid's story is not all true, and is killed by his model wife leaving the court house. Luc comes to NYC, where is opening a new...more
Michelle
I have read every Alex Cooper book and this one does not disappoint. Interesting to read about the Diner en Blancs (or is that Diners en Blancs?) since that concept was just featured on an episode of Top Chef Masters.

I was saddened to learn about the passing of Justin Feldman through this book. I knew that the character had Ms. Fairstein's husband's real name, and so when the character's death was mentioned I had to stop and verify the passing of the real Mr. Feldman. My condolences to Ms. Fairs...more
Marti
This book might have gotten a 3 1/2 star rating. While it is nice to know some of the characters that will be in a book, especially when it is the 14th time out, there are also times when there is a sameness about a book in a series. This time, Alex, Alexandra Cooper, has a French boyfriend, who owns a restaurant in Mougins, France, and is planning a second in New York City. The crime de jour is that of a rich man accused of raping a maid in his hotel, which sounds similar to events which occurr...more
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Linda Fairstein (born 1947) is one of America's foremost legal experts on crimes of violence against women and children. She served as head of the sex crimes unit of the Manhattan District Attorney's office from 1976 until 2002 and is the author of a series of novels featuring Manhattan prosecutor Alexandra Cooper. Ms. Fairstein is married to Justin N. Feldman, retired counsel to the New York offi...more
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