"Her most powerful and affecting novel Fairstein really knows what she’s writing about."

--James Patterson

"Linda Fairstein is truly the queen of intelligent suspense...Imagine John Grisham at his best collaborating with Patricia Cornwell at her best...add in a little extra...and then you’re close to imagining how good this book is."

--Lee Child, New York Times bestselling author of One Shot

Murder at the Metropolitan Opera House pulls Alexandra Cooper behind the scenes at Lincoln Center--and into the cutthroat conglomerate that controls the city’s theaters. Joe Berk, the powerful head of The Berk Organization, was the lover of worldclass ballerina Natalya Galinova; was he tied to her disappearance and untimely death after a performance at the Met? Shooting in the dark along with her colleagues Mike Chapman and Mercer Wallace, Alex juggles a case on the cutting edge of forensic technology: she’s about to nab a physician accused of drug-facilitated sexual assaults. But legal entanglements over DNA databanking may prevent Alex from stopping the predator. Cracking open a hidden history of the New York few others see, Alex must deliver a bravura performance--or prepare to sing her swan song.