Alafair Burke

"Television producer Laurie Moran and her fiancée, Alex Buckley, the former host of her investigative television show, are just days away from their midsummer wedding, when things take a dark turn. Alex's seven-year-old nephew, Johnny, vanishes from the beach. A search party begins and witnesses recall Johnny playing in the water and collecting shells behind the beach shack, but no one remembers seeing him after the morning. As the sun sets, Johnny's...

"Queen of Suspense" Mary Higgins Clark and Alafair Burke are back with their sixth enthralling mystery in the New York Times bestselling Under Suspicion series; You Don't Own Me finds television producer Laurie Moran stopping at nothing to solve the murder of a celebrity doctor--even as she finds herself in grave danger as a mysterious stalker plots his next move. When we last saw Laurie Moran, she had recently become engaged to her show's former...

"The two identical brothers seemed perfect in every way--handsome, intelligent, popular--until a shocking summer night when one brother killed his parents in cold blood while the other had an iron-clad alibi. But which twin was where during the murders? And is it possible the two of them planned the perfect crime together? Years later, they may finally be ready to clear one name at the expense of the other and turn to Laurie Moran and her team to...

"Cuarto libro de la serie protagonizada por la reportera e investigadora Laurie Morgan y el equipo del programa de televisión Bajo sospecha"-- "Casey Carter fue condenada a prisión por el homicidio de su prometido, el famoso filántropo Hunter Raleigh III. Un crimen que entonces negaba y aún ahora niega haber cometido. Quince años después, habiendo cumplido su condena, aún no se ha librado de las miradas de quienes la consideran una asesina....

Steph Cha, a rising star who brings a fresh perspective as series editor, takes the helm of the new The Best American Mystery and Suspense, with best-selling crime novelist Alafair Burke joining her as the first guest editor.

“Crime writers, forgive the pun, are killing it right now creatively,” writes guest editor Alafair Burke in her introduction. “It was difficult—painful even—to narrow

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In this collaboration between "Queen of Suspense" Mary Higgins Clark and bestselling author Alafair Burke, "the snappy pace, layered characters, and many plot surprises will keep readers guessing in this fascinating mystery" (Booklist).
Television producer Laurie Moran is delighted when the pilot for her reality drama, Under Suspicion, is a success. Even more, the program—a cold case series that revisits unsolved crimes...

"Starting with the 2021, the annual short story anthology will now become The Best American Mystery and Suspense and the new series editor, Steph Cha, and best-selling guest editor, Alafair Burke, will select the best short mystery and suspense fiction of the year."--

"It's been said that all great literature boils down to one of two stories--a man takes a journey, or a stranger comes to town. While mystery writers have been successfully using both approaches for generations, there's something undeniably alluring in the nature of a stranger: the uninvited guest, the unacquainted neighbor, the fish out of water. No matter how or where they appear, strangers are walking mysteries, complete unknowns in once-familiar...