Alafair Burke
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Alafair Burke is an American crime novelist. The daughter of writer James Lee Burke, she holds a law degree from Stanford and served as a deputy district attorney in Portland, Oregon, before joining the faculty of Hofstra Law School in New York, where she teaches criminal law. She created the Samantha Kincaid and Ellie Hatcher crime series and has written a number of standalone thrillers; she also co-wrote a series of novels with Mary Higgins Clark, among them "The Cinderella Murder". She has served as president of the Mystery Writers of America.
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Alafair Burke is an American crime novelist. The daughter of writer James Lee Burke, she holds a law degree from Stanford and served as a deputy district attorney in Portland, Oregon, before joining the faculty of Hofstra Law School in New York, where she teaches criminal law. She created the Samantha Kincaid and Ellie Hatcher crime series and has written a number of standalone thrillers; she also co-wrote a series of novels with Mary Higgins Clark, among them "The Cinderella Murder". She has served as president of the Mystery Writers of America.
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