Frequently asked questions
Who is Linda Fairstein?
Linda Fairstein is an American author, based in New York.
Who is Alex Cooper?
Alex Cooper is the main character in the Alexandra Cooper series of novels by Linda Fairstein.
What category or genre are Linda Fairstein's Alex Cooper books in?
Linda Fairstein's Alex Cooper books are crime thrillers, the main themes being murder, detective and mystery.
What is Linda Fairstein's background?
Linda Fairstein was an Assistant District Attorney in the Sex Crimes Unit at Manhattan, in New York N.Y., USA.
The author took early retirement from her job as Assistant D.A. in 2002 to concentrate full time on writing, which has proved to be a great success.
Who are the main characters of Linda Fairstein's Alex Cooper novels?
The main characters of Linda Fairstein's Alexandra Cooper novels are Alex Cooper, the New York Assistant District Attorney and two New York Police Department (NYPD) detectives, Mercer Wallace and Mike Chapman.
Where are Linda Fairstein's Alex Cooper books based?
Linda Fairstein's Alex Cooper books are based in New York, in the United States of America.
The main character also has a home in Martha's Vineyard, an island off Massachusetts, towards the north end of the east coast of the US.
How can Alex Cooper afford a home in Marth's Vineyard?
Linda Fairstein's character Alex Cooper has a private income from family wealth, which supplements her salary as a New York D.A.
Martha's Vineyard is the hideaway of the rich and famous off the east coast of the United States, with house prices double the average for the whole of the US.
What are perps?
References to a perp, or perps, are a little strange to the non-US reader, as we don't generally refer to perps, so what are perps?
Your first thought may be that it would be a man standing, a perpendicular as opposed to a man down, which is also a US cop expression. However, that is not what it means at all.
A perp is a perpetrator, that is, a person who is guilty of doing something, so perpetrators are the criminals who commit the crimes Alex Cooper investigates and prosecutes.
For every crime there is at least one perpetrator and so for every victim there must also be a perpetrator or perpetrators.