Hell Gate, Linda Fairstein

I really, really, really wonder why I keep reading some of these mystery series. Hell Gate is Linda Fairstein's twelfth novel featuring NY sex crimes prosecutor Alexandra Cooper. Just how tired the series has gotten can be seen in the book's concluding chapter, in which the several intertwined mysteries that Alex and her sidekicks Chapman and Mercer solve are explained as the three present the evidence to a federal prosecutor. . . so lame. In addition, the "sexual tension" between Alex and Mike Chapman has become extremely annoying; in fact, it's hard to imagine a high-powered DA putting up with the crap Chapman gives Alex on the job, no matter how much she wants to sleep with him (regardless of what hot guy she is already sleeping with).

As usual, there is a lot of New York history thrown into the mix, but it would probably be more rewarding just to read a history of the city.

Favorite passage: None