Dimensions
109 x 177 x 30mm
The glitzy reception at New York's Metropolitan Museum of Art should have been a welcome evening off for Assistant District Attorney Alexandra Cooper. But the announcement of a cooperative exhibition with the American Museum of Natural History is overshadowed by a gruesome discovery: in an ancient sarcophagus bound for a show abroad, customs officials have found the body of a young woman.
Katrina Grooten was a quiet, studious, hard-working intern at the Cloisters, the magnificent but foreboding home of the Museum's collection of medieval art. According to its records, Katrina had left her job several months earlier to return to her native South Africa: her eerily preserved body is grisly proof she'd never made it home. And the white lines on her fingernails are the telltale signs of her killer's modus operandi: arsenic poisoning.
Impeccably plotted, grippingly authentic and brilliantly engrossing, Linda Fairstein's latest Alex Cooper thriller will delight old and new fans alike.
