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The Ex by Alafair Burke5/22/2023 ![]() ![]() ![]() īurke received her Bachelor of Arts in psychology from Reed College, in Portland, Oregon, completing the senior thesis "Emotion's effects on memory: spatial narrowing of attention." She went on to Stanford Law School in California, graduating as a member of Order of the Coif. She traces her fascination with crime to the hunt for the serial killer known as BTK, who was active in Wichita during the 1970s. ![]() Her books have been translated into more than a dozen languages.īurke was born in Fort Lauderdale, Florida, and raised primarily in Wichita, Kansas, where her mother, Pearl Pai Chu, was a school librarian and her father, fellow crime novelist James Lee Burke, was a professor of English. She is a New York Times bestselling author of 18 crime novels, including The Ex, The Wife, and The Better Sister, and two series-one featuring NYPD Detective Ellie Hatcher, and the other, Portland, Oregon, prosecutor Samantha Kincaid. Burke (born October 1969) is an American crime novelist, professor of law, and legal commentator. Burke in 2013 at Bouchercon in Albany, New YorkĪlafair S. ![]()
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