Alafair Burke
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"When Angela met Jason Powell while catering a dinner party in East Hampton, she assumed their romance would be a short-lived fling, like so many relationships between locals and summer visitors. To her surprise, Jason, a brilliant economics professor at NYU, had other plans, and they married the following summer. For Angela, the marriage turned out to be a chance to reboot her life. She and her son were finally able to move out of her mother's home...
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"When a prominent Manhattan lawyer is murdered, two estranged sisters--one the dead man's widow, the other his ex--must set aside mistrust and old resentments. but can they escape their past? Though Chloe was the younger of the two Taylor sisters, she always seemed to be in charge. She was the honor roll student with big dreams and an even bigger work ethic. Nicky was always restless. and more than a little reckless--the opposite of her ambitious...
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Journalist McKenna Jordan is chasing the latest urban folktale-the story of an unidentified woman who heroically pulled a teenage boy from the subway tracks seconds before the arrival of an oncoming train. When McKenna locates a video snippet that purportedly captures the incident, she thinks she has an edge on the competition scrambling to indentfy the mystery heroine.
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With a psychotherapist dead, her bones broken posthumously, an anonymous letter prompts police to have the NYPD's Ellie Hatcher and JJ Rogan take a second look at the alleged serial killer convicted of breaking his victims' bones after killing them--the man demanding he is innocent and pleading to be set free. 368pp., 35K, Auth res: New York, NY
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When her dream job turns into a living nightmare, causing her to become the prime suspect in a murder investigation, art gallery manager Alice Humphrey must prove that she has been set up--a deadly mission that plunges her into a high-tech criminal conspiracy that is shockingly linked to her own family.
8) Angel's tip
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When fresh-faced college student Chelsea Hart is found murdered in East River Park, her wavy blond hair brutally hacked off, NYPD detective Ellie Hatcher catches the case--and finds herself under the watchful eye of a psychopath eager to add the prideful young female detective to his list of victims.
9) 212
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212 is acclaimed author-and former deputy district attorney-Alafair Burke's gripping thriller featuring hip, Manhattan-based detective Ellie Hatcher. Fans of Lisa Gardner, Sandra Brown, Karin Slaughter, Harlan Coben, Sue Grafton, and PJ Tracy will find it hard to put 212 down until the very last page.
11) Waking Kylie
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From the New York Times bestselling author of The Ex comes a new e-short featuring an excerpt from her forthcoming novel, The Wife.
After losing a criminal case, a prosecutor asks herself how far she's willing to go to protect the young girl whose future hangs in the balance . . .
12) 212: Novela
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Por fin en castellano el aclamado thriller de la mejor escritora del crimen de hoy: Alafair Burke.Inquietante y contundente. Te mantendrá en vilo.El guardaespaldas de un magnate es asesinado en el lujoso ático de su jefe en el exclusivo barrio de Manhattan. Mientras en la universidad de Nueva York, una estudiante de segundo año es amenazada en Internet, acechada. . . y finalmente asesinada.Los dos casos, igualmente sórdidos y terribles, terminan...
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Por fin en castellano el aclamado thriller de la mejor escritora del crimen de hoy: Alafair Burke. Inquietante y contundente. Te mantendrá en vilo. En una ciudad llena de víctimas. . . es difícil elegir sólo una. La joven universitaria Chelsea Hart está muy emocionada de pasar las últimas horas de sus vacaciones de primavera en la sala VIP de un club de élite de Nueva York, tanto es así que se separa de su grupo de amigas cuando éstas deciden...
14) Sans passé
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Elle se fait appeler Hope Miller, mais n'a aucune idée de qui elle est vraiment...
Suite à un terrible accident, Hope Miller est devenue amnésique. Quinze ans plus tard, après un déménagement dans les Hamptons aussi brusque qu'inexpliqué, elle disparaît, entraînant sa meilleure amie avocate dans une course-poursuite désespérée. Une goutte de sang suspecte, l'ombre d'un serial killer, des meurtres que 2 000 kilomètres et près de vingt...
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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 this year's Best American Mystery and Suspense to only twenty...
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2015.
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"The second thrilling novel in the New York Times bestselling Under Suspicion series following The Cinderella Murder, featuring intrepid television producer Laurie Moran as she investigates the case of a missing bride. Five years ago Amanda Pierce was excitedly preparing to marry her college sweetheart in a lavish ceremony at The Grand Victoria Hotel in Palm Beach. Then, with their guests and families on site, Amanda disappeared. In present-day...
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Simon & Schuster
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2016.
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Television producer Laurie Moran puts everything on the line to help a woman she thinks was wrongfully convicted of murder. Casey Carter was convicted of murdering her fiance, famed philanthropist Hunter Raleigh III, fifteen years ago. And Casey claims, has always claimed, she's innocent. Although she was charged and served out her sentence in prison, she is still living under suspicion. She hears whispers at the grocery store. She can't get...
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Under suspicion novel volume 1
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Simon & Schuster
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2014
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"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 by recreating them with those affected--is off to a fantastic start when it helps solve an infamous murder in the very first episode. Now Laurie has the ideal case to feature in the next episode of Under Suspicion: the Cinderella Murder. When Susan Dempsey, a beautiful...
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Simon & Schuster
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2017.
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The fifth collaborative novel in the Under Suspicion series by Mary Higgins Clark and Alafair Burke, takes place at the Met Gala in New York City.
"Laurie Moran's professional life is a success--her television show Under Suspicion is a hit, both in the ratings and its record of solving cold cases. But her romantic break from former host Alex Buckley has left her with on-air talent she can't stand--Ryan Nichols--and a sense of loneliness, despite...
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Under suspicion novel volume 7
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Simon & Schuster
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2020.
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"Television producer Laurie Moran and her fiancée, Alex Buckley, the former host of her investigative television show, are just days away from their mid-summer wedding, when things take a dark turn. Alexs 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, Johnnys...