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Terminal City is a later Alex Cooper novel and one where Linda Fairstein leans hard into her New York institutional knowledge. The case opens with a body found in a suite at the Waldorf-Astoria and quickly widens to include Grand Central Terminal, with its hidden tunnels, abandoned platforms, and decades of architectural history that Fairstein renders with the kind of love that the form rarely encourages.
The procedural details (the DA's office sex-crimes unit, the relationships between the NYPD and the federal agencies, the specific protocols around high-profile-target investigations) are handled with the insider precision Fairstein's readers expect. The Grand Central setting is one of the book's real attractions.
Four stars. A solid late-period Alex Cooper. Recommended to readers who like NYC-set procedurals with serious geographical attention.
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