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Alafair S. Burke is the Edgar-nominated, New York Times best-selling author of fourteen novels of suspense, including The Ex, The Wife, The Better Sister, and Find Me, and coauthor of the best-selling Under Suspicion series. A former prosecutor, she is now a professor of criminal law. She recently served as president of the Mystery Writers of America and was the first woman of color to be elected to that position. She lives in New York.
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Would you say you're following in the footsteps of
your father, James Lee Burke?
Actually, when it
comes to mysteries, you could say my father followed in my
footsteps. Many people don't know that he published several works
before turning to crime fiction with The Neon Rain, so no
one thought of my father as a mystery writer during my formative
years. I, however, was a huge fan of the genre. I plowed through
the entire Encyclopedia Brown series and used to steal time with
my dad's manual Royal typewriter to hammer out page turners like
"Murder at the Roller Disco." So, for the record, I beat my dad to
the mystery punch.
Clearly, though,
he's been a huge influence on me. What I really think I inherited
from my family more than any particular writing style (or talent
for that matter) is a narrative tradition. The Burkes are people
who tell stories, and I grew up watching my father work a
full-time job and then come home and write every single day to get
his stories on paper. That clearly affected me and turned me into
someone who is able ...
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