Red boots, green boots, swishing through the hay. Bee & Billy are so excited… They’re on the farm today!
Billy
When Assistant District Attorney Alexandra Cooper is summoned to Tina Barr's apartment on Manhattan's Upper East Side, she finds a neighbour convinced that the young woman has been assaulted. But the terrified victim, a conservator of rare books & maps, denies that & refuses to co-operate with Alex & the police investigators. Tina disappears, & then another woman is found murdered in the same apartment, with an extremely valuable book at her side. The book has probably been stolen, but from whom & how? Pursuing the murderer Alex is drawn into the strange & privileged world of rich & secretive book collectors, where avarice & greed is as strong an inheritance as wealth. In a beguiling mix of history & suspense Linda Fairstein takes readers on a breath-taking ride through collections of beautiful first editions, supposedly 'lost' atlases, & deep into the hidden rooms & tunnels of the great New York Public Library.