Alafair Burke is a New York Times bestselling author whose most recent novels include The Wife and The Ex, which was nominated for the Edgar Award for best novel. She also co-authors the bestselling Under Suspicion series with Mary Higgins Clark. A former prosecutor, she now teaches criminal law and lives in Manhattan and East Hampton.Burke's new novel is The Better Sister.
One of the author's ten favorite thrillers about siblings, as shared at the Guardian:
What the Dead Know by Laura LippmanRead about another entry on the list.
Before the recent wave of popular “are they or aren’t they unreliable?” narrators, the brilliantly talented Lippman told the story of a woman who claims to be Heather Bethany, one of two adolescent sisters last seen at a shopping mall in 1975. Lippman has said that this was inspired by the real-life disappearance of two sisters in suburban Washington DC when the author herself was a teenager. Her fictional rendering of these girls is careful and beautiful.
What the Dead Know is among Jessica Knoll's top ten dark thrillers.
The Page 69 Test: What the Dead Know.
--Marshal Zeringue
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