Alafair Burke

Alafair Burke is the New York Times and internationally bestselling author of sixteen novels.

Her most recent psychological thriller, The Wife, which is being adapted as a feature film by Amazon Studios, with Alafair hired to write the screenplay. Her previous novel, The EX, was nominated for an Edgar Award for Best Novel. She’s also the co-author of the "Under Suspicion” series with the Queen of Suspense, Mary Higgins Clark.

Alafair was born in Fort Lauderdale, Florida, but grew up primarily in Wichita, Kansas.  She traces her lifelong fascination with crime to the fact that a serial killer was active in her hometown in her formative years, but it probably also had something to do with her father, James Lee Burke, bieng one of the bestselling mystery writers in the world. Her mother, a school librarian, helped her navigate her way from Encyclopedia Brown to Nancy Drew to Agatha Christie and eventually to Sue Grafton.  Her interest in crime led her to a career in America’s police precincts and criminal courtrooms. After graduating from Reed College and Stanford Law School, Alafair served as a Deputy District Attorney in Portland, Oregon, where she specialized in domestic violence offenses. 

For more about Alafair and her works, go to http://alafairburke.com/