Alafair Burke is the New York Times and USA Today bestselling, Edgar Award nominated author of fifteen crime novels, including THE NOTE, THE WIFE, and THE BETTER SISTER, which has been adapted for television on Prime Video. Published in more than twenty languages, her books have been featured on “Best Book” lists from the Today Show, Entertainment Weekly, People, O (Oprah Magazine), Oprah Daily, The Boston Globe, Washington Post, Sun Sentinel, Amazon, Barnes & Noble, and numerous other outlets.
She has been called “a genius for plot” and “one of our greatest contemporary mystery writers.” She has served on the board of the Authors Guild Foundation and as the President of Mystery Writers of America, the first woman of color to be elected to that position. In addition to her own novels, she also co-authored the bestselling Under Suspicion series and a sequel to the iconic WHERE ARE THE CHILDREN with Mary Higgins Clark.
A distinguished graduate of Stanford Law School, Alafair is a full professor at the Maurice A. Deane School of Law at Hofstra University, where she teaches criminal law and procedure. Her legal scholarship focuses on the discretionary decisions of prosecutors and police, and she frequently serves as a legal commentator for various media outlets. She lives in East Hampton and New York City.