Linda Fairstein talks about changing the world for sex crimes victims.

Coop — Thu, 13 Jun 2013 13:52:21 +0000

Go to Makers.com today to listen to me talk about changing the world for sex crimes victims. Makers (the PBS series that debuted in February about ‘Women Who Change the world’) just launched 5 new video profiles and I appear on the home page today!

Award-winning crime writer Linda Fairstein talks about her work and offers practical writing tips.

Coop — Tue, 05 Mar 2013 20:42:33 +0000

I am poised for the launch of NIGHT WATCH this week

Coop — Sun, 08 Jul 2012 05:07:52 +0000

So that moment has finally come, and I am poised for the launch of NIGHT WATCH this week. It’s always thrilling to anticipate the moment when the boxes of books are opened and readers get a chance to re-visit Coop and Chapman and Wallace – and respond to me.
The Book Review section of today’s NEW YORK TIMES – page 2 – has a glorious full page color ad, which brought calls and notes from friends all over the country. Tomorrow morning I start the day with Don Imus at 7:35. I love to do the IMUS show – he’s wonderfully smart and has that irreverent sense of humor that makes me smile, no matter what direction the interview takes. Then some interviews during the day for pieces that will run later on. On Tuesday morning, I do the TODAY SHOW in the 9am hour, and that’s always a gift, with so many loyal viewers. And Tuesday night, my familiar hometown debut at Barnes and Noble on E. 86th Street, with lots of friends on board (come say hello!). I hope you’ve noticed that I’m tweeting and face-booking and keeping our great-looking site current. I’ll be sending photos to be posted every day of the tour, so you can see where I am and who’s with me, as I hit most of my favorite bookstores around the country. And we’ve got new features in addition to the photo gallery – like LIVING HISTORY (much more to come), with articles that explore more of the real places that have been featured in each of the novels. Thanks for waiting for me – I’m hoping you get hooked on NIGHT WATCH – take it to the beach or on vacation or on the bus or subway as you commute – and most of all, I hope you enjoy!

Come along with Coop and me

Coop — Thu, 21 Jun 2012 15:48:25 +0000

As many of you know, there is nothing I like better than my book tour, and the chance to connect with so many readers and fans on the road. That all begins on July 10, and in the meantime, I am well underway for Coop’s 15th caper, doing research whenever the time allows. It’s not a big spoiler to tell you that some of the action will be in the most spectacular setting in New York – our most wonderful Central Park. No, it doesn’t involve any of my ‘high profile’ cases – I much prefer to use my imagination. Last week, I was offered access to a tour of the park through the good graces of the Central Park Conservancy. I put on my sneakers and spent three hours, on one of the most beautiful days of the year, hiking the most remote areas of the park. As you can see in these photos, Olmstead and Vaux wanted to make two vast areas of the park into ‘woodlands’, so that New Yorkers could actually think they were in the Adirondack Mountains. And they succeeded beyond their wildest dreams. From the Ramble to the Ravine – babbling brooks and gills and waterfalls – the Park transports you to another world. And along the way, a bride and groom from London crossed my path – having even more fun than I had on my incredible tour. How can any place so serene and such a sanctuary seem to be dangerous? only a crime writer could think so, I’m sure. Do you know Huddlestone Arch? the Bow Bridge? the Point? the Gill? It’s a magical place. Come along with Coop and me.

NIGHT WATCH is coming on July 10!

Coop — Sat, 24 Mar 2012 16:39:37 +0000

I’ve had so many emails and messages asking about when Coop and Mike and Mercer are back in business. The new book is NIGHT WATCH, and it will launch with major media and a national tour on July 10th. Website under re-construction – so much to talk about. Thanks for asking.

Book Launches Bring Back the Blog

Coop — Wed, 21 Mar 2012 16:38:10 +0000

The spring weather has made everything in New York begin to blossom, and what better reason to blog again than the launch of three books by three of my favorite authors and most adored friends – all appearing on the same day? Doing this in alphabetical order, I woke up to a fabulous interview of Harlan Coben on CBS This Morning – talking about his fantastic new thriller STAY CLOSE. Clipped the great NY TIMES full-page ad for Richard North Patterson’s dazzling new novel – FALL FROM GRACE – was lucky to have an early read and offer a quote for Ric, who is my favorite writing partner on Martha’s Vineyard, where FFG is set (captured brilliantly). Then hosted a lunch for my friend (of 30 + years), Kate White – the smart, sexy, generous, funny and how-does-she-do-it-all editor in chief of COSMO, whose 8th mystery, SO PRETTY IT HURTS, completes the trifecta. If you want to check out the great ladies at Kate’s lunch, check out my press room in a day or two. The cheerful fete at Michael’s is the centerpiece of Diane Clehane’s column on media bistro and David Patrick Columbia’s daily delight on New York Social Diary. One thing I promise you is three great reads.

So overdue to blog all about the SILENT MERCY tour

Coop — Fri, 23 Sep 2011 16:56:55 +0000

which I will do next week, but in the meantime, there is a spectacular weekend of crime at MAYHEM IN THE HAMPTONS – at the great indies run by BOOKHAMPTON – so come out and talk books. My first panel is at 2pm in East Hampton – 41 Main Street – on NYC as a character in my books – and the second panel is at 4pm – as I introduce three of my favorite debut novelists: Karen Bergreen, Hilary Davidson, and Cara Hoffman. It’s a great weekend of events – won’t you come?

Launching SILENT MERCY

Coop — Thu, 24 Feb 2011 05:15:45 +0000

As my readers know, there’s nothing about the publishing process that I like more than the moment the books come out of the boxes and onto the bookshelves at stores and libraries. I get the opportunity to dash around the country and talk to everyone and anyone who shows up, see my favorite booksellers, raise funds for libraries. It’s all good. So on March 1, in case you missed it in hardcover, HELL GATE appears in paperback. And on Tuesday, March 8th, the brand new SILENT MERCY hits the street! You can find me talking with DON IMUS on Monday the 7th, see me on THE TODAY SHOW on March 8th, again on CNN’s AMERICAN MORNING on March 9th, and on March 11, deep in conversation with JOAN HAMBURG, broadcast live from the famed restaurant, 21! Check the site for the tour – Manhattan to Pittsburgh to DC to Huntingot, LI to Brooklyn, to Houston, to Atlanta, to Coral Gables, to Del Ray, to Naples, to Fort Myers, to Denver, to Boulder, to Scottsdale and on to Los Angeles. Come say hello!

the SILENT MERCY website

Coop — Wed, 02 Feb 2011 10:57:37 +0000

Come take a look! The SILENT MERCY website has launched, thanks to my brilliant and beloved webmaster. Look and listen – and please check out the tour – many dates being added all throughout April and May…and do feel free to pre-order a copy from your favorite bookseller. Cheers!

SILENT MERCY and the pre-pub reviews

Coop — Mon, 24 Jan 2011 12:45:00 +0000

I often say that my favorite period of time is after I hand in the final edit of a novel…and before the first reviews appear. It’s like a grace period…there is nothing I can change, no matter how much I’d like to, and the critics haven’t come at me yet. Well, SILENT MERCY is off to a very generous pre-pub birth, and since many of you don’t get the trade reviews….here they are.

The first to arrive was LIBRARY JOURNAL (and you know how much I love libraries, so this is so important to me)… “Fairstein’s newest thriller commences at the scene of a grisly fire at a historic Harlem Baptist church. Assistant DA Alexandra Cooper and NYPD colleagues Mike Chapman and Mercer Wallace investigate the badly burned and beheaded body of a woman on the porch of the church behind a locked gate. After a second corpse is found mutilated at a landmark Catholic cathedral and a recent unsolved murder in a Kentucky Pentecostal church is discovered, possible connections among the victims arise. Before another dies, can Cooper and her colleagues apprehend this killer who is literally and figuratively silencing women? Fairstein’s 30 years as a New York City prosecutor and a gift for suspense have enabled her to craft a riveting novel that thrusts readers into the darker side of religion and bigotry against the backdrop of some of New York’s oldest churches. VERDICT: The 13th entry in Fairstein’s series is a tightly wound mystery that delivers an adrenaline rush with its faced-paced, nail biting manhunt across several states.” (Written by Mary Todd Chestnut of Northern Kentucky University Library).

And the very next day, the PUBLISHER’S WEEKLY review appeared: “In Fairstein’s exciting 13th novel to feature NYC Assistant District Attorney Alexandra Cooper, a middle of the night call brings Alex and NYPD detectives Mike Chapman and Mercer Wallace to Harlem, where the decapitated body of a young woman has been burning on the steps of the Mount Neboh Baptist Church, originally a synagogue until the neighborhood changed. Initially, the authorities expected a hate crime, until another dead woman turns up at a cathedral in Little Italy a few days later. A religious motive emerges. especially since both victims were considered ‘outcasts’ because of their uncompromising demands about the role of women in organized religion. Meanwhile, Alex is prosecuting a defrocked Catholic priest accused of molesting boys, a high-profile trial that a politically connected bishop wants stopped. Fairstein excels at describing New York’s complicated religious history as well as the vagaries of the city’s legal and religious politics.”

I’m ready to unpack those boxes and get the books on library and bookshop shelves! march 8!