Alafair Burke

Alafair Burke is an American crime novelist and professor of law who also writes legal commentary. She has published fifteen crime novels, including The Ex, The Wife, The Better Sister, and The Note, and two series, one following NYPD Detective Ellie Hatcher and the other Portland prosecutor Samantha Kincaid. She also co-wrote eight novels with Mary Higgins Clark, and her books have been translated into more than a dozen languages.