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I recently finished reading two more books by Linda Fairstein in her series of mystery novels featuring the fictional Alexandra Cooper, an Assistant District Attorney in New York.  Killer Heat is about a serial killer with a fondness for military settings who kidnaps and murders young women in uniforms.  Lethal Legacy is about rich bibliophiles and map collectors trying to assemble the pieces of an extremely valuable old map.  The author is an intelligent and competent writer of prose, but her stories tend to be quite far-fetched.  For one thing, I don’t think it happens very often that assistant district attorneys place themselves in situations of danger while trying to solve a murder mystery with the police and save a prospective murder victim.  Lethal Legacy also has a somewhat complicated plot, and even after reading the entire book I don’t quite understand exactly why the victims were murdered.  Still, the experience of reading the books was pleasant.