Alafair Burke, FIND ME: A Novel
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Zibby Owens
4.4 • 602 Ratings
🗓️ 7 June 2022
⏱️ 30 minutes
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Summary
Zibby is joined by Alafair Burke, New York Times bestselling author of 14 crime novels, including her most recent book, Find Me. The two talk about which real true-crime facts inspired elements of this story, why Alafair's father's suggestions that she become a writer like him led her to pursue a career as a prosecutor instead, and how collaborating on six books with the late author Mary Higgins Clark prompted her to shift from being a pantser to a plotter. Alafair also shares how female friendship factors into this novel as well as her next standalone project.
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| 0:41.8 | Alifair Burke is the author of Find Me, a novel. She is a New York Times best-selling author |
| 0:47.2 | whose most recent novels include The Better Sister, the wife, optioned for a feature film by |
| 0:52.0 | Amazon, and the X, which was nominated for the Edgar Award for Best Novel. |
| 0:56.2 | She's also the co-author of the bestselling Under Suspicion Series with Mary Higgins-Clark. |
| 1:01.4 | She currently serves as the president of mystery writers of America and is the first woman of color to be elected to that position. |
| 1:08.6 | A former prosecutor, she now teaches criminal law and lives in Manhattan and East Tim. |
| 1:13.2 | Welcome, Alifair. |
| 1:14.5 | Thank you so much for coming on Momstone of Time to read books to discuss your latest Find Me. |
| 1:20.1 | Thank you so much for having me. |
| 1:21.3 | I appreciate it. |
| 1:22.5 | It's my pleasure. |
| 1:24.2 | Could you please tell listeners what your novel is about? Yeah. So the main character of Find |
| 1:30.6 | Me, it's really two women. One goes missing. Hope Miller moves out to East Hampton, |
| 1:35.0 | leaves a small town in New Jersey, where she's lived for 15 years and she decides she wants to |
| 1:39.8 | go someplace, have a little more anonymity, a little more independence. She moves out to East Hampton |
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