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Alafair Burke

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Alafair Burke graduated from Reed College and Stanford Law School. After graduating, she became a Deputy District Attorney in Portland, Oregon where she worked as a trial lawyer prosecuting domestic violence offenses and as a liaison to the police department. After five years of working at the näytä lisää District Attorney's Office, she decided to start writing. Her first novel, Judgment Calls, was published in 2003. Her other works include Long Gone, If You Were Here, The Ex, A Samantha Kincaid Mystery series, the Ellie Hatcher series, and the Under Suspicion series written with Mary Higgins Clark. She currently teaches criminal law and procedure at Hofstra Law School. (Bowker Author Biography) näytä vähemmän

Sisältää nimet: Burke Alafair, Alifair Burke, Alafair S. Burke

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Tekijän teokset

I've Got You Under My Skin (2014) 904 kappaletta
The Cinderella Murder (2014) 846 kappaletta
All Dressed in White (2015) 623 kappaletta
The Wife (2018) 620 kappaletta
The Ex (2016) 578 kappaletta
The Sleeping Beauty Killer (2016) 547 kappaletta
Long Gone (2011) 453 kappaletta
You Don't Own Me (2018) 424 kappaletta
212 (2010) 416 kappaletta
Dead Connection (2007) 398 kappaletta
The Better Sister (2019) 381 kappaletta
Angel's Tip (2008) 372 kappaletta
Judgement Calls (2003) 356 kappaletta
If You Were Here (2013) 328 kappaletta
Piece of My Heart (2020) 309 kappaletta
Never Tell (2012) 298 kappaletta
Missing Justice (2004) 258 kappaletta
Close Case (2005) 235 kappaletta
Find Me (2022) 229 kappaletta
All Day and a Night (2014) 209 kappaletta
The Best American Mystery and Suspense 2021 (2021) — Toimittaja — 54 kappaletta
Winning (2010) 7 kappaletta
Waking Kylie (Kindle Single) (2017) 6 kappaletta
Sans passé (2023) 1 kappale
Burke Alafair 1 kappale

Associated Works

Inherit the Dead (2013) — Avustaja — 291 kappaletta
Neptune Noir: Unauthorized Investigations into Veronica Mars (2007) — Avustaja — 225 kappaletta
Vengeance (2012) — Avustaja — 160 kappaletta
The Best American Mystery Stories 2009 (2009) — Avustaja — 113 kappaletta
When a Stranger Comes to Town (2021) — Avustaja — 56 kappaletta
The Arvon Book of Crime and Thriller Writing (2012) — Avustaja — 10 kappaletta
Crimespree Magazine #50 — Avustaja — 1 kappale

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Syntymäaika
1969-10
Sukupuoli
female
Kansalaisuus
USA
Syntymäpaikka
Fort Lauderdale, Florida, USA
Asuinpaikat
New York, New York, USA
Portland, Oregon, USA
Koulutus
Stanford University (Law ∙ 1994)
Reed College (BA ∙ Psychology ∙ 1991)
Ammatit
academic
legal commentator
author
Suhteet
Burke, James Lee (father)
Michel, Delauné (second cousin)
Dubus, Elizabeth Nell (cousin)
Organisaatiot
Hofstra University
Lyhyt elämäkerta
Alafair S. Burke is an American author, professor of law and legal commentator, born in Fort Lauderdale, Florida. She is the author of two series of crime novels, one featuring NYPD Detective Ellie Hatcher, the other featuring Portland prosecutor Samantha Kincaid. She received her B.A. in psychology from Reed College, completing the senior thesis "Emotion's effects on memory: spatial narrowing of attention". Burke is a graduate of Stanford Law School, served as a deputy district attorney in Portland, Oregon and is now teaching law at Hofstra Law School. She is the daughter of fellow mystery novelist James Lee Burke.

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Long gone by Alafair Burke: an excellent thriller, Reviews of Early Reviewers Books (elokuu 2011)

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BooksInMirror | 29 muuta kirja-arvostelua | Feb 19, 2024 |
A many-layered murder mystery all based on the belief that a young woman has amnesia. Kept your interest even though it was somewhat contrived. Kirkus: mystery featuring a woman with amnesia in New Jersey, a drowned fishing guide on Long Island, a 15-year-old cold case in Wichita, and much more.In her 19th mystery, and the sixth to feature detective Ellie Hatcher, Burke has taken the kitchen-sink approach, offering a rare abundance of characters, crimes, and misdemeanors. As much as there is a protagonist, it is a woman who, years ago, was thrown from an SUV in Hopewell, New Jersey, and lost her memory. Hope Miller, as she is now known, has spent the past decade and a half under the wing of a devoted friend she met after the accident, an attorney named Lindsay who lives with a boyfriend named Scott. But as the story opens, Hope has disappeared from Hopewell without leaving Lindsay any information as to her whereabouts. Since she has no legal identity, Hope has to work under the radar; she finds a job staging properties on the East End of Long Island for a sketchy real estate agent named...oh well, turns out he's not that important. Meanwhile, there's Ellie Hatcher, the detective whose series this is. She's on vacation in St. Barth's with her boyfriend, Max, having bad dreams about her dad, a cop who committed suicide because he couldn't find Wichita's College Hill Strangler, who was later arrested and jailed. Then there's this giant home improvement chain also based in Wichita whose female CEO is running for senator...and wait, there's more! This novel seems more like the work of a beginning crime writer than one with Burke's experience. Clues, red herrings, exposition, and "things you should know" are dropped in awkwardly and obviously: "Lindsay had learned that psychological trauma or post-traumatic stress disorder could also induce dissociative fugue, or what used to be called a fugue state¥a psychological condition characterized by an inability to recall one?s identity or personality." All this hand-holding aside, the book operates on what feels like a kind of anti?Occam's-razor logic, favoring the most complicated solution to any question. The good news is, there is one.For those who like a tricky brain teaser and aren't too picky about interesting characters or emotional realism.… (lisätietoja)
 
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bentstoker | 12 muuta kirja-arvostelua | Jan 26, 2024 |

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