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If You Were Here

If You Were Here

by Alafair Burke (Author)

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    Paperback 2013

    $4.38
Synopsis

When McKenna Jordan, a magazine journalist investigating the story of the heroic and unidentified woman, finds the video footage, she thinks she recognizes her as Susan Hauptmann. But Susan disappeared without a trace ten years earlier, having just introduced McKenna to her future husband, Patrick. McKenna's complex search for her missing friend forces her to unearth secrets that lie deep in all their pasts. A sublimely plotted mystery and a devastating thriller about marriage, private security and journalistic scandal, "If You Were Here" further underlines Dennis Lehane's assertion that 'Alafair Burke is one of the finest young crime writers working today'.

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Format: Paperback
 Pages: 384
 Edition: Main
 Publisher: Faber & Faber
Published: 05 Sep 2013
ISBN 10: 0571303447
ISBN 13: 9780571303441
Book Overview: In If You Were Here by Alafair Burke, a young pickpocket is pulled from the tracks of a subway station seconds before an oncoming train's arrival. When a video of the incident briefly emerges it unlocks a mystery that goes back over a decade.

Media Reviews
I absolutely love Alafair Burke - she's one of my favorite authors. I know it's summer when I have one of her books in my hands. IF YOU WERE HERE is her best yet. Highly recommended. Karin Slaughter After finishing If You Were Here, I don't feel I can trust anyone ever again, except Alafair Burke to provide a cracking good read. Linwood Barclay, author of No Time For Goodbye If You Were Here is a winner: a suspenseful, tightly plotted story of friendship, lies, and betrayal. Alafair Burke writes deftly about secrets buried close to home. An accomplished novel by an assured author. Meg Gardiner, author of The Shadow Tracer If You Were Here has one of the strongest openings in recent thrillers ... Burke also deserves credit for writing crime fiction (urban, pacy, stylistically restrained) so different from that of her father, -Louisiana-based James Lee Burke. John Dugdale, Sunday Times A likable standalone mystery in the style of Harlen Coben and Linwood Barclay ... Burke knows how to keep readers guessing. John O'Connell, Guardian Outstanding...Burke's accuracy in legal and judicial technicalities is impressive although most readers will find simpler pleasures in her sharp writing, well-constructed plot, and dimensional characters. Publishers Weekly
Author Bio
Alafair Burke's books include her Samantha Kincaid series, the standalone thriller Long Gone, and her highly acclaimed series starring NYPD Detective Ellie Hatcher, the previous title of which, Never Tell, was a Kindle bestseller. A former Deputy District Attorney in Portland, Oregon, Alafair is now a Professor of Law at Hofstra Law School, where she teaches criminal law and procedure. If You Were Here, her debut on the Faber list, was an O Magazine Summer Pick by Gillian Flynn and was described by Karin Slaughter as 'highly addictive,' and by Meg Gardiner as 'a suspenseful, tightly plotted story of friendship, lies, and betrayal'., Alafair Burke's books include the standalone thrillers Long Gone and If You Were Here - an Amazon Best Mystery Novel of 2013 - and her acclaimed series starring NYPD Detective Ellie Hatcher, the most recent of which, Never Tell, was a Kindle bestseller. A former Deputy District Attorney in Portland, Oregon, Alafair is now a Professor of Law at Hofstra Law School, where she teaches criminal law and procedure.