num_pages: 495
description: On Roosevelt Island, a strip of land in New York City's East River, stands as abandoned nineteenth-century smallpox asylum, "The Deadhouse, where the afflicted were shipped off to die. It's a gruesome bit of history perhaps best forgotten. But for Alexander Cooper, it may be the key to a shocking murder that cuts deeper than the arctic cold front gripping the city. A respected university professor is dead - strangled and dumped in an elevator shaft. And as Cooper and her close detective friend Mike Chapman scramble for answers, they make a shocking discovery: a piece of paper, found on the lifeless body of Professor Lola Dakota, that reads The Deadhouse....
language: English
title: The Deadhouse
titlecomplete: The Deadhouse (Alexandra Cooper, #4)
characters: Alexandra Cooper
genres: Mystery, Fiction, Thriller, Suspense, Mystery Thriller, Crime, Legal Thriller, Detective, New York, Audiobook
ratings_count: 4427
places: New York City, New York
series: Alexandra Cooper
awards: awardedAt: 1009872000000
name: Macavity Award
category: Best Mystery Novel, awardedAt: 1009872000000
name: Nero Award
category: excellence in the mystery genre
publisher: Simon & Schuster (Paper)