Devil’s Bridge (An Alexandra Cooper Novel, Book 17)

Devil’s Bridge (An Alexandra Cooper Novel, Book 1by Linda Fairstein

384 Pages

Publisher: Penguin Group Dutton, Dutton

Release Date: August 11, 2015

Fiction, Mystery, Thriller, Suspense, Legal, Police Procedural

Alexandra Cooper is an assistant District Attorney. Her current case is upended when a young woman working in the DA’s office goes to sit behind the defendant. His attorney informs Alexandra that the woman is the defendant’s wife. Things get frantic as it turns out the woman was a plant to get information about his case and to place incriminating information in Alexandra’s files. Now on one knows who she is or where she went.

Alexandra goes out for drinks with the group from the office. She has another appointment so she calls an Uber and leaves. She is expecting a sedan but a black Cadillac Escalade pulls up and the driver is waving to her to get in. Just as she is about to get in the vehicle, she sees the sedan pull up to the restaurant, but it is too late. She is grabbed and pulled into the Escalade.

Mike Chapman is a homicide detective. He and Alexandra, or Coop as he calls her, have had a long relationship as friends. Now they are dipping their toes into a romantic one. Mike gets concerned when he texts her and calls but gets no answer. When Alexandra’s office calls him looking for her, he is more than worried. He knows she would not just vanish. She was taken.

The story has a fast pace, the characters are developed, and it is written in the first person point of view from different perspectives. I This is seventeenth book in the series. I did not read the others and I was able to follow along just fine. f you like legal thrillers like the ones by Marcia Clark, you will enjoy reading this one.