Amazon, and The Ex, which was nominated for the Edgar Award for best novel. She is also the co-author of the bestselling Under Suspicion series with Mary Higgins Clark. She currently serves as the President of Mystery Writers of America and is the first woman of color to be elected to that position. A former prosecutor, she now teaches criminal law and lives in Manhattan and East Hampton.
Burke's new novel is Find Me [UK title: The Girl She Was].
[Q&A with Alafair Burke]
At CrimeReads Burke tagged eight of her favorite female friendships in books, including:
Laura Lippman has won every crime fiction award under the sun for good reason, and one of her early standouts is To the Power of Three. Perri, Kat, and Josie were inseparable through childhood, but by high school, one of them brings a gun to school. One girl is dead, one is fighting for her life in the hospital, and one is wounded. What happened within their faltering friendship to bring them to that moment?Read about another entry on the list.
To the Power of Three is among Megan Abbott's top ten novels of teenage friendship.
--Marshal Zeringue
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