Natalya Galinova is a prima ballerina and has a temper to match it. She is also at the end of her career as ballet is ruthless on bodies and most lead parts are really supposed to be young women which Galinova isn't anymore. She disappears during a performance and is later found dead at the same theather and it's clearly a result of foul play.
Alexandra Cooper, Assistant DA, gets involved with the investigation together with her friend and NYPD detective Mike Chapman. They both have their demons to fight and have to do so while trying to solve the case.
I liked reading this book as Cooper had to juggle other cases at the same time which is something that you'd have to do in real life. A lot of crime novels seem to forget that very few people have the luxury to spend all their working time on one case only and putting everything else on hold. This is the first book by Fairstein and I will read the others if I come across them but I won't go out of my way to find them, if you know what I mean. The language is not different from any other crime novel and there's nothing that really sets it apart from books in the same genre. It's not bad at all but I see a risk of it being just another, fairly anonymous, book on the "Crime" shelf.
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