INTRODUCING A FAVORITE AUTHOR: ALAFAIR BURKE

I’m always on the lookout for new novels–especially mystery or thriller series–by talented authors.

I was especially pleased after reading Dead Connection, the first book in the Ellie Hatcher series by Alafair Burke. Alifair’s father  is university professor and respected novelist James Lee Burke and her mother is school librarian Pearl Burke.

A graduate of Reed College and Stanford Law School, Alafair workded as a Deputy District Attorney in Portland Oregon. She is now a Professor of Law at Hofstra Law  School, where she teaches criminal law and procedure.

Alafair Burke is the author of “two power house series” (Sun-Sentinel) that have earned her a reputation for creating strong, believable, and eminently likable female characters, such as NYPD Detective Ellie Hatcher and Portland Deputy District Attorney Samantha Kincaid.  Alafair’s novels grow out of her experience as a prosecutor in America’s police precincts and criminal courtrooms, and have been featured by The Today Show, People Magazine, The New York Times, MSNBC, The Washington Post, USA Today, and The Chicago Sun-Times.  Dennis Lehane has called her “one of the finest young crime writers working today.”

A graduate of Stanford Law School and a former Deputy District Attorney in Portland, Oregon, Alafair is now a Professor of Law at Hofstra Law School, where she teaches criminal law and procedure.

She lives in New York City and spends too much time on Facebook and Twitter, but has no plans to quit.

Learn more about Alafair at http://www.alafairburke.com

Dead Connection

In this electrifying thriller, a rookie detective goes undercover on the
Internet dating scene to draw out a serial killer targeting single women
in Manhattan

When two young women are murdered on the streets of New York, exactly one year apart, Detective Ellie Hatcher is called up for a special assignment on the homicide task force. The killer has left behind a clue connecting the two cases to First Date, a popular online dating service, and Flann McIlroy, an eccentric, publicity-seeking homicide detective, is convinced that only Ellie can help him pursue his terrifying theory: someone is using the lure of the Internet and the promise of love to launch a killing spree against the women of New York City.

To catch the killer, Ellie must enter a high-tech world of stolen identities where no one is who they appear to be. And for her, the investigation quickly becomes personal: she fits the profile of the victims, and she knows firsthand what pursuing a sociopath can do to a cop–back home in Wichita, Kansas, her father lost his life trying to catch a notorious serial murderer.

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