Silent Mercy

New York Times bestselling author Linda Fairstein is at her explosive best as she plunges into the byzantine world of New York Citys most powerful and sacred institutionsand unearths the most sinister of secrets Prosecutor Alexandra Cooper has been called to a Harlem Baptist Church, where a woman has been decapitated and set on fire on the church stepswith the imprint of a Star of David necklace seared into her flesh. Then a second body is found at a cathedral in Little Italy. Alex is blind to the sick and inconceivable motives feeding a particularly vicious serial killeruntil she mines the depths of the citys vast and serpentine religious history. What Alex follows is a dangerous path that takes her far beyond the scope of her investigation, and directly into the path of a frightening and inescapable truth.