Showing results for "Alafair Burke" in Mystery, Thriller & Suspense

For a while, it seemed like both Taylor sisters had found happiness. Chloe landed a coveted publishing job in New York City. Nicky got married to a promising young attorney named Adam McIntosh and became a mother to a baby boy named Ethan. But now, 14 years later, it is Chloe who is married to Adam. When he is murdered at the couple's beach house, she has no choice but to welcome her estranged sister - her teenage stepson's biological mother - back into her life.

When Angela met Jason Powell, while catering a function in the Hamptons, she assumed their romance would be a fling. But, Jason, a brilliant economics professor at NYU, had other plans, and they married the following summer. The marriage meant a fresh start, a chance for Angela and her young son to move to Manhattan where no one knew of her tragic past. Six years later, her husband has become a successful and celebrated liberal figurehead, but when a college intern and then another woman come forward with allegations against him, their perfect life begins to unravel.

The two identical brothers seemed perfect in every way—handsome, intelligent, popular—until a shocking summer night when one brother killed his parents in cold blood while the other brother had an iron-clad alibi. But which twin was where during the murders? Years later, the twins are long estranged, each convinced that the other is responsible for the death of their parents. Married with children of their own, they are finally ready to clear one name at the expense of the other and turn to Laurie Moran and her team to reinvestigate their parents’ murder.

In this thrilling sequel, Melissa, a lawyer turned successful podcaster, has recently married a man whose first wife died tragically, leaving him and their young daughter, Riley, behind. While Melissa and her brother, Mike, help their mother relocate to the idyllic Hamptons, Melissa’s new stepdaughter goes missing. Drawing on the experience of their own abduction, Melissa and Mike race to find Riley to save her from the trauma they still struggle with—or worse.

‘Should come with a warning…highly addictive.’ Karin Slaughter. When prep school junior Julia Whitmire is found dead in the bathtub of her family’s Upper East Side apartment, her left wrist slashed and suicide note resting on her dresser, Ellie Hatcher and her partner, J.J. Rogan initially write the case off as a suicide.

When two young women are murdered on the streets of Manhattan - exactly one year apart, both after dates arranged through an online dating website - Detective Ellie Hatcher is moved to a special assignment on the elite homicide task force. The killer has left behind a taunting hint connecting the two cases, and Flann McIlroy, an eccentric and publicity-seeking homicide detective, is convinced that Ellie is uniquely situated to help him pursue a terrifying theory.

Television producer Laurie Moran and her fiancée, Alex Buckley, the former host of her investigative television show, are just days away from their mid-August wedding, when things take a dark turn. Alex’s seven-year-old nephew, Johnny, vanishes from the beach. A search party begins and witnesses recall Johnny playing in the water and collecting shells behind the beach shack, but no one remembers seeing him after the morning. As the sun sets, Johnny’s skim board washes up to shore, and everyone realizes that he could be anywhere, even under water.

Chelsea Hart, a fresh-faced Indiana college student, spends the final night of her spring break in the VIP room of an elite New York City nightclub with her girlfriends and a fake ID. The next morning, joggers find her in East River Park, her celebrated blonde hair hacked off. NYPD Detective Ellie Hatcher catches the case and quickly homes in on a group of privileged men who were last seen partying with Chelsea.

Deputy District Attorney Samantha Kincaid walks into her office in Portland's Drug and Vice Division one morning to find the sergeant of the police bureau's vice unit waiting for her. A 13-year-old girl has been brutally attacked and left for dead on the city's outskirts. Given the lack of evidence, most lawyers would settle for an assault charge; Samantha, unnerved by the viciousness of the crime, decides to go for attempted murder.

For Deputy District Attorney Samantha Kincaid's 32nd birthday, she gets an unusual gift: a homicide call out. The crime scene is in the elite Hillside neighborhood in Portland, Oregon. The victim is hotshot investigative reporter Percy Crenshaw, who has been bludgeoned to death in his carport.

When New York University sophomore Megan Gunther finds personal threats posted to a Web site specializing in campus gossip, she's taken aback by their menacing tone. Someone knows her daily routine down to the minute and is watching her - but thanks to the anonymity provided by the Internet, the police tell her there's nothing they can do. Her friends are sure it's someone's idea of a joke, but when Megan is murdered in a vicious attack, NYPD Detective Ellie Hatcher is convinced that the online threats are more than just empty words.

Did he, or didn't he? Olivia Randall is one of New York City's best criminal defence lawyers. When she gets a phone call informing her that her former fiancé has been arrested for a triple homicide, there is no doubt in her mind as to his innocence. The only question is who would go to such great lengths to frame him - and why? For Olivia, representing Jack is a way to make up for past regrets and the hurt she caused him, but as the evidence against him mounts, she is forced to confront her doubts.

212 is acclaimed author - and former deputy district attorney - Alafair Burke’s gripping thriller featuring hip, Manhattan-based detective Ellie Hatcher. Fans of Lisa Gardner, Sandra Brown, Karin Slaughter, Harlan Coben, Sue Grafton, and PJ Tracy will find it hard to stop listening to 212 until the very last moment.

Deputy District Attorney Samantha Kincaid is back at work after an attempt on her life and a promotion into the Major Crimes Unit. When the husband of a Portland city judge reports his wife missing, Samantha is assigned the case. She assumes her only job is to make the district attorney look good until the judge turns up. When the police discover evidence of foul play, Samantha finds herself unearthing secrets that were meant to stay hidden.

Elle se fait appeler Hope Miller, mais n'a aucune idée de qui elle est vraiment. Suite à un terrible accident, Hope Miller est devenue amnésique. Quinze ans plus tard, après un déménagement dans les Hamptons aussi brusque qu'inexpliqué, elle disparaît, entraînant sa meilleure amie avocate dans une course-poursuite désespérée. Une goutte de sang suspecte, l'ombre d'un serial killer, des meurtres que 2 000 kilomètres et près de vingt années séparent... La quête de la jeune femme se transforme vite en saut d'obstacles.

Quando il tuo sguardo è offuscato dall'amore, la verità è la cosa più difficile da vedere. Ellie Hatcher si è trasferita a New York da poco, e da poco lavora come detective al NYPD. Non ha ancora molta esperienza sul campo, ma il passato le ha già insegnato molto: a Wichita, nel Kansas, è cresciuta con un padre poliziotto che ha dedicato tutta la vita alla caccia di un serial killer, fino a morire in circostanze mai chiarite. Forse assassinato. O, forse, suicida.

Encouragée par l'énorme succès de son émission pilote, la productrice Laurie Moran a choisi de s'attaquer à "L'affaire Cendrillon" : l'assassinat de Susan Dempsey, une étudiante retrouvée près d'une somptueuse villa d'Hollywood... étrangement chaussée d'un seul escarpin. L'émission pourrait bien faire exploser l'audimat. En braquant les projecteurs sur un coupable plus dangereux qu'on ne le pense.

Laurie Moran, la célèbre productrice de télévision, fait son grand retour pour enquêter sur un meurtre non résolu : celui d'un couple, perpétré par l'un de leurs fils jumeaux.

Si fa chiamare Hope Miller, ma non ha idea di chi sia in realtà. È successo tutto quindici anni fa. Un incidente d'auto. Il trauma cranico che le ha fatto perdere la memoria. Anni di vita cancellati. Trovata senza documenti, e soprattutto senza ricordi, Hope ha dovuto iniziare da capo: nuovo nome, nuova città, nuova vita. Senza mai smettere di chiedersi che cosa si stesse lasciando alle spalle... o da cosa stesse scappando. Non ce l'avrebbe fatta, però, a ricominciare senza Lindsay.

Chloe war die jüngere,schönere erfolgreiche der beiden Taylor-Schwestern - und dann heiratet sie auch noch Adam, der zuerst mit der älteren Nicky verheiratet war, und erzieht deren Sohn. Das Glück scheint vollkommen, bis Adam ermordet wird.