Attorney and novelist Linda Fairstein, author biographies

Fairstein is a Fellow of the American College of Trial Lawyers and 30, ran the Sex Crimes Unit prosecutor's office in Manhattan. He left office in 2002. During his tenure, has contributed to several high-profile and controversial cases, including Robert Chambers 'Murder' case Preppy in 1986.

Linda was born on May 5.1947 Mount Vernon, New York. She graduated from Vassar College in 1969 with a BA in English literature. After the completion ofUniversity of Virginia Law in 1972, he joined the Manhattan District Attorney's office as district attorney.

In 2004 Linda was named in a lawsuit by 10 million dollars against the State of New York by Dr. Oliver Jovanovic. Dr. Jovanovic, a biologist, was condemned in 1998 for kidnapping, sexual abuse and assault of a college student, who had met on the Internet. His case has been abolished in 1999, the siting of an unfair trial.

Linda Fairstein is based on their legalKnow-how for his character in the series, Alexandra Cooper, a prosecutor in Manhattan. Linda says that he wrote his first series in person because "I" to see the readers', victimhood, and then hopefully result in the classroom perspective Alex. "Linda for the first time Alex Cooper novel" Final Jeopardy ", made in an ABC television movie with Dana Delaney.

Linda says that people who do not commit very bright, probably 90% of crimes in this country. He says in hisBooks can invent, the murders, but the reasons for the killings on grounds of actual cases. She says she never wrote about each of their individual cases.

Linda centers in all his novels in places considerable near New York City. He says: "I just love the place, real and very rich in history, and then I lose my imagination." She says she wants every book a fun escape, and for the reader to come away learning something new. He told her,writing the first hundred pages is a treatment of root, but after 200 pages, is to sail safely.

Linda loves to collect historical curiosities, antique jewelry, desk and writing articles. Collects first edition books, particularly crime and mystery genre. It also collects the English literature of the nineteenth century. Read secrets, and love their favorite TV show is CSI Special Victims Unit.

Linda and her husband, Justin Feldman, lives in Manhattan and has aAt home on Martha's Vineyard, where they go every year for four months. It has a separate cottage, where he writes and plots. Linda says her passion has been a writer since high school.

Linda is still a lawyer and takes only a few cases of victims of violent crime, pro bono, as a rule. She does counseling and speaks is also a keynote speaker for sex crimes and domestic violence.

Books by Linda Stein Fire:

Series:

Alex Cooper
Final Jeopardy (1994)
Likely to die(1997)
Cold Hit (1999)
The Deadhouse (2001)
The Bone Vault (2003)
The Kills (2004)
Entombed (2005)
Dance of Death (2006)
Bad Blood (2007)
Killer Heat (2008)
Lethal Legacy (2009)

Omnibus:
Final Jeopardy / likely to die (2004)
Cold Hit / The Deadhouse (2005)

Novels:
I would like to Kill (2004) (with Rita Mae Brown, Jennifer Cruise, Lisa Gardner, Heather Graham, Kay Hooper, Katherine Neville, Anne Perry, Kathy Reichs, Julie Smith and TinaWainscott)
Hell Gate (2010)

Non Fiction:
Sexual violence: Our war against rape (1993)
The Best American Crime Reporting 2007 (2007) (with Otto Penzler)