By Linda Fairstein, Dutton, 398 pages, $28.50
Linda Fairstein made a bold decision to situate her latest murder mystery, Death Angel, in Central Park. Fairstein was at the helm of the Sex Crimes Unit of the Manhattan D.A.'s office for 26 years, from 1976 to 2002, and, through her extremely successful tenure in that position—which included revolutionary changes to the way rape cases are prosecuted—and afterwards, has become known as one of the country's experts on crimes of sexual assault and domestic violence. Fairstein says she prosecuted more than 40 cases that occurred in Central Park. But her name is most often linked to two of them, the 1986 "Preppie Murder" case, and, more controversially, the 1989 case of the "Central Park" jogger, a then-28-year-old investment banker who was brutally assaulted, raped, and nearly murdered while jogging one evening in Central Park.
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