Entombed by Linda Fairstein

A young foreign student is accosted at her front door and nearly killed. The skeletal remains of a young woman are found in the basement of a building that was once the home of Edgar Allen Poe; she appears to have buried alive in an upright position about 25 years ago. A young woman with a murky past is murdered. Is the Silk Stocking Rapist back in action in NYC? A man is found dead at the bottom of a waterfall--in a manner described in one of Poe’s works. Another man is shot. How are all these misdeeds connected? Who’s read too much Edgar Allan Poe and takes him literally? Why?

 SVU detective Mercer Wallace, homicide detective Mike Chapman, and assistant DA Alexandra Cooper team up again to solve these seemingly unrelated crimes. Alex gets in a bind; Mike has a life-changing event; Alex gets in a bigger bind. The story moves right along and keeps you wondering who the Silk Stocking Rapist is and who thinks he’s Poe.

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