Alexandra Cooper, head of the sex crimes unit in the Manhattan district attorney's office, is prosecuting the case of bank employee Paige Wallis, despite almost complete lack of evidence. Suddenly, Alexandra discovers that her client is trying to hide something from her. While Alex, with the help of his friend, police detective Mercer Wallace, learns all the new details of this complicated case, his colleague Mike Chapman goes to the Harlem slums, where an unknown criminal killed eighty-two-year-old McQueen Ransom and turned her apartment upside down. This murder is just the beginning. Alexandra Cooper and her friends begin to realize that they are involved in a deadly game that began many years ago. An impeccable combination of intricate intrigue, psychological drama, real and fictional events, characters with whom you do not want to part with - in a brilliant novel by a recognized master of detective stories Linda Fairstein's "Deadness."