Charisse Dengler talks with author and attorney Linda Fairstein about her previous position as head of the sex crimes unit at the Manhattan District Attorney's Office and her current profession as an author. Fairstein talks extensively about what it was like to be one of only seven women in the Manhattan District Attorney's Office and what it was like to be one of the first people to learn to use DNA with regard to trial work.

Fairstein also discusses what it's like to be an author and talks about where she gets ideas for her novels, the differences between working as an attorney and working as an author, and how she feels right before one of her books comes out. Recorded the day before her newest novel, Bad Blood, was set to hit bookstore shelves, this interview includes a detailed plot summary of Bad Blood.

Duration: 00:17:53