02141cam a2200277 4500 1261889791 TxAuBib 120315s2012||||||||||||||||||||||||eng|u 2012009632 9780525952633 hardback 0525952632 hardback (OCoLC)3673 DLC eng DLC YDX BTCTA WIM BDX BPLCP YDXCP NSB IEB VP@ TxAuBib Fairstein, Linda A. Night watch / Linda Fairstein. New York : Dutton, 2012. 402 p. : map ; 24 cm. This is a ripped-from-the-headlines thriller that takes Alexandra Cooper into the dark underside of New York City's most storied restaurants and a murder case spanning continents. Forty-eight hours after Alexandra Cooper arrives in France to visit her boyfriend and famed restaurateur, Luc Rouget, her vacation in paradise is cut short when a young woman from the village is found murdered. The only evidence discovered on the body is one of Luc's matchboxes promoting his new restaurant in New York. But before the investigation begins, Alex is summoned back to New York to handle a high profile case. Mohammed Gil-Darsin, the distinguished and wealthy head of the World Economic Bureau, has been arrested and accused of attacking a maid in his hotel. As the world watches in fascination to see how the scandal will unfold, Alex finds her attention torn between preparing the alleged victim to testify and a murder case with ties too close to home. A second body is found with Luc's matchbox, this time in Brooklyn, and Alex begins to fear that the two cases may not be as unrelated as she thought, and that uncovering the sordid secrets of the city's most wealthy and powerful could cost her and her loved ones everything they hold dear. Cooper, Alexandra (Fictitious character) Fiction. Public prosecutors Fiction. Women lawyers Fiction. France Fiction. New York (N.Y) Fiction. Legal stories. Mystery fiction.