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by Alafair Burke ‧ RELEASE DATE: Jan. 11, 2022

For those who like a tricky brain teaser and aren't too picky about interesting characters or emotional realism.

A mystery featuring a woman with amnesia in New Jersey, a drowned fishing guide on Long Island, a 15-year-old cold case in Wichita, and much more.

In her 19th mystery, and the sixth to feature detective Ellie Hatcher, Burke has taken the kitchen-sink approach, offering a rare abundance of characters, crimes, and misdemeanors. As much as there is a protagonist, it is a woman who, years ago, was thrown from an SUV in Hopewell, New Jersey, and lost her memory. Hope Miller, as she is now known, has spent the past decade and a half under the wing of a devoted friend she met after the accident, an attorney named Lindsay who lives with a boyfriend named Scott. But as the story opens, Hope has disappeared from Hopewell without leaving Lindsay any information as to her whereabouts. Since she has no legal identity, Hope has to work under the radar; she finds a job staging properties on the East End of Long Island for a sketchy real estate agent named...oh well, turns out he's not that important. Meanwhile, there's Ellie Hatcher, the detective whose series this is. She's on vacation in St. Barth's with her boyfriend, Max, having bad dreams about her dad, a cop who committed suicide because he couldn't find Wichita's College Hill Strangler, who was later arrested and jailed. Then there's this giant home improvement chain also based in Wichita whose female CEO is running for senator...and wait, there's more! This novel seems more like the work of a beginning crime writer than one with Burke's experience. Clues, red herrings, exposition, and "things you should know" are dropped in awkwardly and obviously: "Lindsay had learned that psychological trauma or post-traumatic stress disorder could also induce dissociative fugue, or what used to be called a fugue state—a psychological condition characterized by an inability to recall one’s identity or personality." All this hand-holding aside, the book operates on what feels like a kind of anti–Occam's-razor logic, favoring the most complicated solution to any question. The good news is, there is one.

Pub Date: Jan. 11, 2022

ISBN: 978-0-06-285-336-3

Page Count: 320

Publisher: Harper/HarperCollins

Review Posted Online: Nov. 1, 2021

Kirkus Reviews Issue: Nov. 15, 2021

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by Tana French ‧ RELEASE DATE: March 5, 2024

An absorbing crime yarn.

A divorced American detective tries to blend into rural Ireland in this sequel to The Searcher (2020).

In fictional Ardnakelty, on Ireland’s west coast, lives retired American cop Cal Hooper, who busies himself repairing furniture with 15-year-old Theresa “Trey” Reddy and fervently wishes to be boring. Then into town pops Trey’s long-gone, good-for-nothing dad, Johnny, all smiles and charm. Much to her distaste, he says he wants to reclaim his fatherly role. In fact, he’s on the run from a criminal for a debt he can’t repay, and he has a cockamamie scheme to persuade local townsfolk that there might be gold in the nearby mountain with a vein that might run through some of their properties. (What, no leprechauns?) “It’s not sheep shite you’ll be smelling in a few months’ time, man,” he tells a farmer. “It’s champagne and caviar.” Some people have fun fantasizing about sudden riches, but they know better. Johnny’s pursuer, Cillian Rushborough, comes to town, and Johnny tries to convince him he could get rich by purchasing people’s land. Alas, someone bashes Rushborough’s brains in, and now there’s a murder mystery. The plot is a bit of a stretch, but the characters and their relationships work well. Trey detests Johnny for not being in her life, and now that he’s back, she neither wants nor needs him. She gets on much better with Cal. Still, she’s a testy teenager when she thinks someone is not treating her like an adult. Cal is aware of this, and he’s careful how he talks to her. Johnny, not so much: “I swear to fuck, women are only put on this earth to wreck our fuckin’ heads,” he whines about Trey’s mother, briefly forgetting he’s talking to Trey. The book abounds in local color and lively dialogue.

Pub Date: March 5, 2024

ISBN: 9780593493434

Page Count: 480

Publisher: Viking

Review Posted Online: Dec. 6, 2023

Kirkus Reviews Issue: Jan. 1, 2024

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A tale that’s hard to believe but easy to swallow in a single gulp.

A bear is hunting prey in Wyoming’s Bighorns. And not just any bear.

It’s bad enough that Clay Hutmacher, who manages the Double Diamond Ranch, has lost his son, Clay Jr., to a vicious attack by a grizzly bear. What’s much worse is that Clay Jr.—who’d been about to pop the question to game warden Joe Pickett’s daughter, Sheridan—is only the first of the victims over an exceptionally broad geographical area. Marshal Marvin Bertignolli is clawed and bitten to death over in Hanna. Sgt. Ryan Winner is found bleeding out north of Rawlins. Former Twelve Sleep County prosecutor Dulcie Schalk, one of two survivors of an ambush, doesn’t survive her final encounter. The four experts chosen to kill the grizzly rope Joe into their expedition, but since their quarry keeps turning up far from the last sighting, the most meaningful confrontation the Predator Attack Team has is with a pair of Mama Bears, animal rights activists who demand due process for Tisiphone, as they’ve dubbed the presumed killer. Box, who’s far too canny to leave Tisiphone alone on center stage, follows Joe’s old antagonist Dallas Cates as the ex–rodeo star is released from prison and embarks on his revenge tour, which takes him to Lee Ogburn-Russell, an inventor whose life Dallas saved, and Axel Soledad, a correspondent who shares so many enemies with Dallas that he suggests they go after them together. Franchise fans will appreciate new details about Joe’s complicated family, the obligatory high-country landscapes, and yet another corrupt law enforcer.

Pub Date: Feb. 27, 2024

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Page Count: 384

Publisher: Putnam

Review Posted Online: Jan. 5, 2024

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Book Review: Find Me by Alafair Burke

By john valeri.

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Alafair Burke is the New York Times bestselling author of fourteen novels, including recent standalones such as the Edgar Award-nominated The Ex , The Wife , and The Better Sister as well as the Ellie Hatcher and Samantha Kincaid series. She also collaborated with Mary Higgins Clark on the five-book Under Suspicion saga. A former prosecutor, Burke teaches criminal law at Hofstra and makes her home in Manhattan and East Hampton. January sees the release of her newest, Find Me (Harper).

It’s the story of two women, Lindsay Kelly and Hope Miller, who share a unique connection that resulted in a fiercely loyal friendship. They have been inseparable since Lindsey found Hope fifteen years ago, thrown from an overturned vehicle on a local highway in the small town of Hopewell, New Jersey. Despite the passage of time, Hope—whose real name and origin story remain lost to amnesia—has no recollection of her past. Fortunately, the townspeople allowed her to forge a new identity with minimal intrusion. But when Hope decides to make a break from this quiet community and begin again in East Hampton, it appears that her previous life may have finally caught up with her when she goes missing.

Hope was last seen in a home she was staging for a real estate showing. Lindsay, now a criminal defense attorney, enlists the begrudging help of neighborhood police officer Carter Decker. When Decker’s conciliatory “investigation” turns up traces of DNA that connect to an infamous Kansas killer, suspicions grow that Hope’s disappearances may have been deliberate (though Lindsay remains steadfast in her dissent). Enter Detective Ellie Hatcher (last seen in 2014’s All Day and a Night ), whose father worked the older case—and later died of a gunshot wound, said to have been self-inflicted. Having finally come to terms with her haunted history, Ellie is once again pulled back to a time she’d rather forget as she endeavors to remedy past and present.

Burke tells the story through multiple points of view, which allows her to highlight each character’s motivations (and manipulations) as they work toward the endgame. This approach not only heightens conflict and tensions but strengthens an ensemble in which each person is contextualized rather than serving as a mere convenience. Regardless of some necessary coincidence to tie things together, an intricately developed backstory ensures that the plot comes off as far more clever than contrived. Consequently, the book works well as a standalone or an addition to the Ellie Hatcher canon depending on how readers wish to approach it.

Find Me ranks among Alafair Burke’s best. Stellar characterization and surprising twists abound, but it’s the deft handling of topics such as dissociative fugue—still very much a mystery, which lends itself nicely to genre fiction—and, to a lesser extent, codependency, that provide nuance. Further, the skillful melding of new and old should entertain all readers, regardless of their familiarity level with the author’s previous work, while the theme of identity will resound with anybody who’s ever struggled to find themselves. 

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Alafair Burke | Find Me

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Find Me by Alafair Burke

Published January 11th 2022 by Harper Date read: December 6, 2021

The Characters: 

Hope Lindsay

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The Plot (from Goodreads ):

She calls herself Hope Miller, but she has no idea who she actually is. Fifteen years ago, she was found in a small New Jersey town thrown from an overturned vehicle, with no clue to her identity. Doctors assumed her amnesia was a temporary side effect of her injuries, but she never regained her memory. Hope eventually started a new life with a new name in a new town that welcomed her, yet always wondered what she may have left behind—or been running from. Now, fifteen years later, she’s leaving New Jersey to start over once again.

Manhattan defense lawyer Lindsay Kelly, Hope’s best friend and the one who found her after the accident, understands why Hope wants a new beginning. But she worries how her friend will fare in her new East Hampton home, far away from everything familiar. Lindsay’s worst fears are confirmed when she discovers Hope has vanished without a trace—the only lead a drop of blood found where she was last seen. Even more ominously, the blood matches a DNA sample with a connection to a notorious Kansas murderer.

With nowhere else to turn, Lindsay calls NYPD homicide detective Ellie Hatcher, the daughter of the cop who dedicated his life to hunting the Kansas killer.  Ellie has always believed there was more to the story of her father’s death twenty years earlier—and she now fears that Hope’s recent disappearance could be related.

In pursuit of answers, three women search for the truth beneath long-buried secrets. And when their searches converge, what they find will upend everything they’ve ever known.  

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Hope’s real name is Tara King, and she’s from Wichita, Kansas. When she and Lindsay visited the Hamptons, Alex recognized her and panicked.

Ellie’s brother Jess knew who they both were. He told them that Alex and Hope used to date in high school. One night, the three of them and Jess’s girlfriend TC broke into a rich family’s house to party and do mushrooms. While they were high, Alex started freaking out and breaking things. A car drove up, Jess heard a shot, and then he and TC ran away.

The house belonged to Richard Mulaney, who had been grooming Alex’s sister. When Alex realized, he flew into a rage. After killing Mulaney, he convinced Hope to run away with him by telling her that she was the one to pull the trigger. She was blacked out when it happened, and she believed him. They stole a car in Indiana, and Alex was driving when they wrecked.

Steve had killed Ellie’s dad to cover up his involvement. He had known Mulaney was a pedophile and a rapist, and was taking payouts to look the other way. He was the one who killed Alex when Alex contacted him saying he had run into Hope.

The Twist: 

Hope really was faking the amnesia. She had been another of Mulaney’s groomed girls. She faked amnesia because she believed she had killed Mulaney, until she realized she couldn’t have shot him. Her mother had abused her so badly that her wrist barely worked. One day, Lindsay’s dad took them to the shooting range. Hope could barely hold a much smaller gun than the one used to kill Mulaney, so she realized there was no way she could have shot him cleanly in the stomach while drunk and high.

The Ending:

Alex wrote a letter to Hope absolving her and Jess of any crime (written before he died, but was delivered to Hope at the end of the book). Hope knew some of the things he wrote weren’t true. She was working with a therapist to “get her memories back”.

My thoughts: I actually really liked that Hope was faking amnesia. It gave a fresh take to a common trope, even if we didn’t find out until the end.

The Review: 

I’m a fan of police procedurals, so I really enjoyed Find Me .

I had no idea until I marked this as “read” in Goodreads that this book is #6 in the Ellie Hatcher series. How did I read this whole book not knowing Ellie is a repeat character?? While she doesn’t play a huge part in the main plot, we learn some big things about her past. I’ve read some of Alafair’s backlog, but nothing earlier than 2016 which explains why I missed this. I’ve liked her writing more and more with each book I’ve read, so I’m definitely interested in checking out the earlier books in the series.

All that said, this book definitely functions as a standalone. My one related thought is that there were a lot of characters to keep track of. If one knew Ellie and her boyfriend and brother from past books, that’s three fewer characters to try to keep track of details for.

As always, Alafair brings a fascinating insight into legal procedure into her writing. Find Me was unique in that it read like a police procedural, but it was all from the POV of the lawyer. For the most part, the lawyer was the one doing the investigative work. The police saw Hope’s history and dismissed her as just having run away from home, perhaps for a second time. Once another body is found and the police begin to take an interest in Hope’s disappearance, they peg her as a person of interest.

There’s a lot to keep track of in this book: characters, hints, and twists add up to keep the reader on their toes. It definitely took my full concentration, and required a few false starts until I had the time to sit down and absorb all the information thrown at us in the first few chapters. I enjoyed the premise and the story, as well as the final twist. I expect that it may be a controversial ending among avid thriller readers, but I was a fan!

Readers of the Ellie Hatcher series will definitely want to pick this one up to find out something special about her backstory, and lovers of police procedurals will want to pick this one up to enjoy its standalone story. Find Me will be published on January 11, 2022. 

QOTD: In Find Me, Hope journals as a safeguard against losing her memories again in the future. Do you journal? Would you ever let someone read them?

I do, although less frequently now that I’ve started Bookstagram. I do let people read most things with my supervision–I write most frequently about travel, so it’s fun to share those stories!

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In Alafair Burke's gripping new thriller, FIND ME, what appears to be the biggest mystery from the start ends up not being as important as the many other questions and problems that arise over the course of this well-written, engaging novel.

Hope Miller lost her memory after a horrific car accident 15 years ago. She still has not gotten it back, but thanks to her close friendship with defense lawyer Lindsay Kelly, she has had a safe place to live and work --- the town of Hopewell, New Jersey, where Lindsay's father was the chief of police.

"While she presents us with evidence of a likely suspect for one of the crimes, there are plenty of others to solve. Deviously, Burke leaves one twist to the very end."

But now Hope has left this sanctuary, where everyone knew her and no questions were asked about her past. She decides to move to the coast, to a small town near the Hamptons, and Lindsay is concerned for her friend's safety. Her fears are realized when we read about Hope's encounter with someone who appears to be dangerous and might be a ghost from her past. Hope is now gone, and the only evidence left is some blood residue on the floor. Because Lindsay insists that Hope would not just run away, the blood is tested. It's a match for blood found at the scene of a crime decades earlier and miles away in Wichita, Kansas. The victim was murdered by a serial killer.

Readers will need to keep track of all the characters, which seems a bit daunting at first. Along with Lindsay and Hope, we meet NYPD homicide detective Ellie Hatcher, whose father dedicated his life to finding the Kansas killer. She has steadfastly refused to believe that her father, whose death was ruled a suicide, ended his own life. Rather, she has always suspected that he was killed by someone connected to that long-ago case, which he wouldn't let go and didn't get solved until after his death.

The mystery seems confusing at times because there are so many pieces that Burke keeps suspended in the air, like a magician doing a juggling act…with people and crimes instead of bowling pins. But stick with it; the confusion is purposeful. It all will become clear, and brilliantly so. For Burke is guilty of a bit of misdirection herself as she presents conclusions that we all too trustingly believe. While she presents us with evidence of a likely suspect for one of the crimes, there are plenty of others to solve. Deviously, Burke leaves one twist to the very end.

Reviewed by Pamela Kramer on January 14, 2022

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Find Me by Alafair Burke

  • Publication Date: January 31, 2023
  • Genres: Fiction , Mystery , Suspense , Thriller
  • Paperback: 304 pages
  • Publisher: Harper Paperbacks
  • ISBN-10: 0062853392
  • ISBN-13: 9780062853394

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Review: Find Me by Alafair Burke

The disappearance of a young woman leaves her closest friend reeling and an NYPD homicide detective digging into her own past in this thrilling mystery full of twists from the New York Times bestselling author of The Better Sister and The Wife . Some pasts won’t stay forgotten . . . She calls herself Hope Miller, but she has no idea who she actually is. Fifteen years ago, she was found in a small New Jersey town thrown from an overturned vehicle, with no clue to her identity. Doctors assumed her amnesia was a temporary side effect of her injuries, but she never regained her memory. Hope eventually started a new life with a new name in a new town that welcomed her, yet always wondered what she may have left behind—or been running from. Now, fifteen years later, she’s leaving New Jersey to start over once again. Manhattan defense lawyer Lindsay Kelly, Hope’s best friend and the one who found her after the accident, understands why Hope wants a new beginning. But she worries how her friend will fare in her new East Hampton home, far away from everything familiar. Lindsay’s worst fears are confirmed when she discovers Hope has vanished without a trace—the only lead a drop of blood found where she was last seen. Even more ominously, the blood matches a DNA sample with a connection to a notorious Kansas murderer. In pursuit of answers, the women search for the truth beneath long-buried secrets. And when their searches converge, what they find will upend everything they’ve ever known. 

The title has a chilling double meaning in this wild thrill-ride of a story. On the surface it’s about Lindsay Kelly’s search for her missing best friend, Hope Miller. Under the surface of that desperate search, there’s Hope Miller’s search for herself.

Once upon a time, fifteen years ago, the woman now known as Hope Miller crashed a stolen SUV outside tiny Hopewell New Jersey. Her seriously injured body was found by the police chief’s daughter, Lindsay, on her way home.

When Hope regained consciousness in the hospital, she had no memory of the crash – or of any part of her life before it. She was a blank slate with no knowledge of who she was or what she was doing on that road or in that car. She had to start her life over with nothing to guide her.

But Lindsay saw her rescue of the young woman as a responsibility. She stood by the woman now called Hope every step of the way. The entire town protected her once the police chief and his daughter took her under their wing, always looking out for her. And making sure that no one tried to take advantage of her. They even found work for her, always paying in cash because Hope had no ID and no way to get one without a birth certificate. Legally, Hope existed in limbo.

Emotionally, she was a woman who began to want to stretch her wings – however tentatively. Hopewell was safe for her, but it was also a place where everyone was up in her business all the time. Lindsay’s close friendship was comforting but also confining, so Hope struck out on her own.

She moved to the Hamptons, found a place to rent for cash and an under-the-table job as a realtor’s assistant. Also for cash.

And then she disappeared. After a couple of weeks of no calls and no texts, her frantic best friend went to East Hampton to see Hope for herself. Only to learn that her friend hadn’t been seen or heard from for over a week. And that no one, not even the local police, was willing to start even a cursory search for a missing woman who might have just decided to vanish just as thoroughly as she had appeared all those years ago.

But Lindsay refused to believe that. She refused to let go. And in her unrelenting search for her missing friend she turned over a rock that no one even knew was there – until the snake crawled out.

Escape Rating A+ : What makes this thriller so suspenseful and so damn, pardon me, thrilling is the way that it turns itself inside out not just once, but over and over and over again. The story starts out simple – a woman is missing and her friend wants to find her.

Then it grows tentacles.

Hope may have scammed her boss out of some cash before she disappeared. It looks like someone left behind a lot of blood in her last known location – and it’s not her blood. Someone claims she was stalking her boyfriend – and the man’s corpse turns up literally dead in the water – but not a drowning victim. No one shoots themselves in the back of the neck, hiding the wound under the hairline to make it harder to spot.

So Hope, whoever she really is, is wanted for murder.

But those tentacles suck in an NYPD homicide detective who has never given up on finding her father’s murderer. Which should be one hell of a stretch of the long arm of coincidence. Except that Hope has no memory of who she was or where she came from, so it’s just barely possible that she had something to do with either the death of a cop in Wichita Kansas fifteen years ago OR that her true identity had some relationship to the serial killer case that obsessed him.

And it’s equally possible that nothing Lindsay Kelly thought she knew about her best friend was really true. Or that someone that either Hatcher or Kelly has relied upon in this crisis is who they think they are. Or both. Possibly both. Frighteningly both.

This is a page-turning, nail-biting, edge-of-the-seat read as ideas and assumptions knot and unknot at breakneck speed with each move that Lindsay Kelly and Ellie Hatcher take. They are both searching for a truth that neither of them really wants to find. A truth that very nearly finds them first.

And just when the reader thinks the story is done, it twists one last time and muddies all the water all over again.

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Because Find Me had me in its grip from the very first page.

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“Alafair Burke's latest propulsive thrill-ride is a suspenseful, twisty mystery about memory, friendship and secrets. A page-turner of the highest order.” -Laura Dave, author of The Last Thing He Told Me

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Some pasts won’t stay forgotten . . .

She calls herself Hope Miller, but she has no idea who she actually is. Fifteen years ago, she was found in a small New Jersey town thrown from an overturned vehicle, with no clue to her identity. Doctors assumed her amnesia was a temporary side effect of her injuries, but she never regained her memory.

Hope eventually started a new life with a new name in a new town that welcomed her, yet always wondered what she may have left behind—or been running from. Now, she’s leaving New Jersey to start over once again.

Manhattan defense lawyer Lindsay Kelly, Hope’s best friend and the one who found her after the accident, understands why Hope wants a new beginning.

But she worries how her friend will fare in her new East Hampton home, far away from everything familiar. Lindsay’s worst fears are confirmed when she discovers Hope has vanished without a trace—the only lead a drop of blood found where she was last seen. Even more ominously, the blood matches a DNA sample with a connection to a notorious Kansas murderer.

With nowhere else to turn, Lindsay calls NYPD homicide detective Ellie Hatcher, the daughter of the cop who dedicated his life to hunting the Kansas killer. Ellie has always believed there was more to the story of her father’s death twenty years earlier—and she now fears that Hope’s recent disappearance could be related.

In pursuit of answers, three women search for the truth beneath long-buried secrets. And when their searches converge, what they find will upend everything they’ve ever known.

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Find Me “will keep readers turning the pages. Appealing characters match the meticulous plotting. Burke reinforces her place in the top rank of suspense writers.”

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“Alafair Burke’s latest propulsive thrill-ride, Find Me, is a suspenseful, twisty mystery about memory, friendship and secrets. A page-turner of the highest order.” —Laura Dave, #1 New York Times bestselling author of The Last Thing He Told Me

“Alafair Burke’s Find Me is a total knockout—serpentine in structure, rich in emotional heft and deeply moving as the past comes back not just to haunt the characters but to shudder through their lives, revealing secrets big and small, dangerous and intimate. Not to be missed.” —Megan Abbott, New York Times bestselling author of The Turnout

“Find Me is a gem, the sort of smart, suspenseful, slow burn that I love.  The tension is palpable on every page, and I savored every surprise.  Alafair Burke is a treasure.” —Chris Bohjalian, New York Times bestselling author of The Flight Attendant and Hour of the Witch

“Hooray! Alafair Burke is back in this gripping, head-spinning thriller of the first order. Find Me is a perfect read: the writing is engaging, the twists are perfectly executed and the exploration of female friendships and identity offers satisfying heft to the plot. I can’t wait for Burke’s next.”

—Cristina Alger, New York Times bestselling author of Girls Like Us

“Alafair Burke once again weaves a riveting web of a story, threaded with delicious characters and hot button social issues. If you’re looking for the perfect twisty mystery, you’ve found it in Find Me.” —Janelle Brown, New York Times bestselling author of Pretty Things

“From one of our greatest contemporary mystery writers comes another superb nail-biting thriller. Alafair Burke uses an intricately layered and twisty plot to ensnare us and then pulls us in for a close examination of intimacy and community. I devoured it, from its riveting first scene to the shocking last page.” —Angie Kim, internationally bestselling author of Miracle Creek

"With recent New York Times bestselling hits like The Better Sister and The Wife, Alafair Burke needs no introduction. If you enjoy a twisty amnesia mystery, order yourself a copy of Find Me right now. In Find Me, the disappearance of a young woman leaves her best friend reeling and an NYPD homicide detective digging into her own past in this twisty mystery about the power of female friendships."

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"Internationally bestselling author of 18 books, Alafair Burke returns with a chilling tale about a woman who has forgotten everything and rebuilt her life, and what happens when she and her best friend uncover something that was supposed to remain hidden."

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“A skillfully constructed, delightfully twisty thriller powered by Burke’s trademark strong, relatable heroines and realistic foes.” 

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“The two women feverishly piece together the disparate parts of the story, and Burke’s masterful control over pacing and plot reveals will make readers just as anxious to uncover the truth.”

—BookPage Magazine 

“Amnesia certainly is a familiar plot trope, found in daytime dramas to novels. But in the exciting “Find Me,” Alafair Burke puts a fresh spin on this syndrome by steering the plot device toward friendship and obsession.  . . . [The novel] works as both a clever standalone novel as well as the solid sixth continuation of Burke’s series featuring NYPD Detective Ellie Hatcher. . . .Burke’s focus on her intelligent characters and smart plotting energizes “Find Me” ….[and her] reputation for delivering highly entertaining, intricately plotted novels continues.”

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The disappearance of a young woman leaves her best friend reeling and an NYPD homicide detective digging into her own past in this twisty mystery about the power of female friendships. From the  New York Times  bestselling author of  The Better Sister  and  The Wife.

Some pasts won’t stay forgotten . . .

She calls herself Hope Miller, but she has no idea who she actually is. Fifteen years ago, she was found in a small New Jersey town thrown from an overturned vehicle, with no clue to her identity. Doctors assumed her amnesia was a temporary side effect of her injuries, but she never regained her memory. Hope eventually started a new life with a new name in a new town that welcomed her, yet always wondered what she may have left behind—or been running from. Now, she’s leaving New Jersey to start over once again.

Manhattan defense lawyer Lindsay Kelly, Hope’s best friend and the one who found her after the accident, understands why Hope wants a new beginning. But she worries how her friend will fare in her new East Hampton home, far away from everything familiar. Lindsay’s worst fears are confirmed when she discovers Hope has vanished without a trace—the only lead a drop of blood found where she was last seen. Even more ominously, the blood matches a DNA sample with a connection to a notorious Kansas murderer.

With nowhere else to turn, Lindsay calls NYPD homicide detective Ellie Hatcher, the daughter of the cop who dedicated his life to hunting the Kansas killer. Ellie has always believed there was more to the story of her father’s death twenty years earlier—and she now fears that Hope’s recent disappearance could be related.

In pursuit of answers, the women search for the truth beneath long-buried secrets. And when their searches converge, what they find will upend everything they’ve ever known.

Find Me by Alafair Burke is an intriguing mystery with an interesting cast of characters.

Lawyer Lindsay Kelly is very worried when her best friend Hope Miller does not return any of her calls. Hope has long term amnesia and has recently moved to the East Hamptons. Lindsay becomes increasingly concerned and cannot be dissuaded from checking on her friend. What she discovers is even more troubling since Hope has seemingly vanished without a trace. Detective Carter Decker does not seem too concerned so Lindsay investigates Hope’s disappearance on her own.

During her search for Hope, Lindsay crosses paths with NY Detective Ellie Hathaway. A drop of blood from a long-ago serial murder case in Wichita is found at the house where Hope is last known to have been. Ellie is immediately interested since the Wichita case consumed her father before the killer was eventually caught and prosecuted.

When another East Hamptons missing persons case takes a murderous turn, Detective Decker is suddenly very interested in finding Hope. Lindsay knows her friend had nothing to do with the death and she knows she has to locate Hope before the police do. With Hope’s future on the line, will Lindsay uncover what the connection is between Hope, Wichita and the East Hamptons murder?

Find Me is an engrossing mystery that is full of tension. Lindsay is a devoted friend who is determined to prove Hope’s innocence. Hope is an enigmatic character due to her amnesia. Ellie is still troubled about her father’s death so she hopes to new information will provide answers. The storyline is engaging and moves at a brisk pace. With shocking plot twists, Alafair Burke brings this suspenseful mystery to a stunning conclusion.

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Find Me by Alafair Burke

Rating: 6/10.

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I’ve been in a bit of a reading slump recently, no lie. This is the first book that I’ve picked up in four months! I guess I just needed some time off from reading and there’s nothing wrong with that. I thought I would pick up an easy thriller type of a read, something that wouldn’t require much thinking and a gripping book. For me, that genre is always the psychological thriller, or suspenseful reads. I chose Find Me simply because it sounded like it would get me out of my reading slump, also because it came out very recently on January 11th 2022. Thank you to Harper Books for my Advanced Review Copy! Let’s get on with the plot for Find Me.

We follow a young woman named Hope Miller. Hope has no memory of who she is. Fifteen years ago, she was found in a small New Jersey town thrown from an overturned vehicle, with no clues to her identity. Doctors assumed her amnesia was a temporary side effect of her injuries, but she never regained her memory. Eventually, Hope started a new life in this small and welcoming town, but deep inside, she always wondered where she came from, who she left behind and who she may have been running from. After 15 years in this small town, Hope decides to leave it behind and start fresh elsewhere.

Hope’s best friend, Lindsey Kelly, a Manhattan defense lawyer worries about Hope moving to a bigger town in East Hampton because she’ll be far away from anything or anyone familiar. Lindsay’s worst nightmare comes true when she finds out that Hope has disappeared without a trace. The only lead is a drop of blood found where she was last seen. Even more ominously, the blood matches a DNA sample with a connection to a notorious Kansas murderer.

The women search for the truth beneath long buried secrets in the pursuit of answers. when their searches converge, what they find will upend everything they’ve ever known.

It’s been a really really long time since I've read any crime fiction books! I actually forgot about all the detective work and writing style that goes into it!

This book was definitely a slow burner type of read.

It was all about figuring out the clues, and following each character throughout the book to find out the answers to this nagging mystery. It took its sweet time to letting us solve this puzzle. If you’re a fan of detective type, slow burning reads then you’ll enjoy reading this crime story.

Apparently one of the characters in this book is part of a series of books from this author, Ellie Hatcher, who plays a police officer in this book has a series of books called The Hatcher Series, but I don’t think you would need to read them to be able to read this plot line. Just thought that was a cool fact.

There were quite a plethora of characters in this book, which made it a little hard to follow who was who in the beginning. It drove me crazy for a while. But as the story built up, it got a little easier to navigate it all. Of course, our central characters are Hope, who is our amnesia stricken character, and her best friend Lindsey, the Manhattan lawyer. Together, they go on the hunt to try and solve this mystery which eventually comes together towards the end of the book. I actually found their relationship quite sweet. That enduring friendship they had, and there’s also a fun twist at the end with them which I liked a lot.

The book also had these timelines that I paid absolutely no attention to! Ha I guess to mark the date and time that everything was happening. Each new chapter began with one. I personally didn’t feel that it was needed because I honestly kind of bypassed them. I will say that the writing was okay, not the most gripping style of writing, but it was very easy to read and you could tell the writer kind of knew her stuff!

All in all, this was a good book. I wouldn’t say that it had the most interesting reveal at the end, it was a little underwhelming for me.

I wasn’t massively blown away by any means, hence my lower rating. But I did manage to get to the end and figured out this whole mystery behind the character’s amnesia and disappearance. It’s a good book for fans of slow burning crime/police reads. But after reading this, I definitely realized I’m more of a fan of shocking psychological thrillers with crazy plot twists haha. The book was okay, not great and not terrible, sorta just okay.

For this song pick, I kept singing this song in my brain every single time I picked up this book! It always made me laugh when I did it. My song pick is a fantastic song by the one and only Madonna and it’s ‘Who's That Girl’ . Haha I mean it’s pretty fitting right?! What a fun music video too, Madonna was a total babe back in the day.

Genre: Crime Fiction | Mystery | LGBTQ+

Pages: 320 Pages

Publication Date: January 11, 2022

Publisher: Harper Books

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Find Me author Alafair Burke shares intel on her new thriller and recommends other crime novels

The best-selling crime novelist previews her riveting new tale and bringing back Ellie Hatcher.

Prepare to hunt for truth in Find Me .

Defense lawyer Lindsay Kelly is desperate to find her friend Hope Miller in Alafair Burke's latest Find Me (out Jan. 11). The new tale is a complex one from Burke, who highlights the amount of plot driving this story. Hope has amnesia from a car accident 15 years before the story begins. Her disappearance ties back to the time she's lost, then another case from the past gets tangled up in the web Lindsay has to unravel. "It's pretty twisty as a result," says Burke. "There's a lot of different points of view, and there are jumps in time as well."

Find Me will have the same realism the author brings to her other work, which comes from her years working in law. Having worked as a prosecutor and with Portland Police Department, she's seen the rhythm of a case from the beginning. "If you think of Law & Order , I know the first half and the second half," she explains. That experience allows her to outline what a case looks like from the investigators' point of view and those being investigated.

What's different about this story is it's less procedural than some of her earlier work. Inspired by her long-standing interest in amnesia and how memory works, Find Me explores the case from multiple vantage points. This allows Burke to depict the civilian perspective and the incredible power of female friendship in addition to the law enforcement professionals' search for the truth. "[Lindsay and Hope] have this commitment to each other that's unique and different from the relationships they have with men. I think a lot of women, in particular, will resonate with the special nature of female friendship," she shares.

Longtime fans of Burke's work — she has written or co-authored 20 books — will be happy to see Ellie Hatcher return in Find Me . The NYPD detective, the main character in 5 of Burke's previous books, appears in the new story. Exploring Ellie's past turns Find Me into a bigger, sprawling tale. Those who haven't met Ellie through Burke's past work won't be lost, "but for readers who have missed her, this is a chance for them to see her again."

In addition, to delivering a new page-turning mystery of her own, Burke also recommended a few other great crime novels for those looking for more captivating reads.

The Collective by Alison Gaylin

All the books I recommend will have different kinds of relationships at the heart of the book. The Collective is a great twisty page-turner of a thriller, but it's really about a mother's commitment to her child and the lengths she's going to seek justice.

The Turnout by Megan Abbott

Megan Abbott always writes about female relationships with such a unique voice. In The Turnout, two very different sisters are running a ballet studio together, and when an outsider enters their relationship, it changes everything.

Last Girl Ghosted by Lisa Unger

There's an online date that seems too good to be true. The main character thinks she's finally found the love of her life. Then he suddenly ghosts her, and she realizes that there's much more to the story than a bad date.

Like a Sister by Kellye Garrett

Female friendships are unique, and sisterhood is as well. There's a fine line between love and insanity. In Like a Sister , the main character has a difficult and complicated relationship with her half-sister, who is found dead. It's about the main character's struggle to find out what happened but also reclaims their relationship in her head and realizes there were things she'd never understood about her sister.

We Were Never Here by Andrea Bartz

Women tell their friends they'll be there through anything, but when anything includes homicide, the limits of loyalty can be tested.

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"Alafair Burke's latest propulsive thrill-ride is a suspenseful, twisty mystery about memory, friendship and secrets. A page-turner of the highest order." --Laura Dave, author of The Last Thing He Told Me

The disappearance of a young woman leaves her best friend reeling and an NYPD homicide detective digging into her own past in this twisty mystery about the power of female friendships. From the New York Times bestselling author of The Better Sister and The Wife.

Some pasts won’t stay forgotten . . .

She calls herself Hope Miller, but she has no idea who she actually is. Fifteen years ago, she was found in a small New Jersey town thrown from an overturned vehicle, with no clue to her identity. Doctors assumed her amnesia was a temporary side effect of her injuries, but she never regained her memory. Hope eventually started a new life with a new name in a new town that welcomed her, yet always wondered what she may have left behind -- or been running from. Now, she’s leaving New Jersey to start over once again.

Manhattan defense lawyer Lindsay Kelly, Hope’s best friend and the one who found her after the accident, understands why Hope wants a new beginning. But she worries how her friend will fare in her new East Hampton home, far away from everything familiar. Lindsay’s worst fears are confirmed when she discovers Hope has vanished without a trace -- the only lead a drop of blood found where she was last seen. Even more ominously, the blood matches a DNA sample with a connection to a notorious Kansas murderer.

With nowhere else to turn, Lindsay calls NYPD homicide detective Ellie Hatcher, the daughter of the cop who dedicated his life to hunting the Kansas killer. Ellie has always believed there was more to the story of her father’s death twenty years earlier -- and she now fears that Hope’s recent disappearance could be related.

In pursuit of answers, the women search for the truth beneath long-buried secrets. And when their searches converge, what they find will upend everything they’ve ever known.

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While Hope and Lindsay's deep friendship takes center stage, Ellie's intelligence, insight, and lingering grief over her father will keep readers turning the pages. Appealing characters match the meticulous plotting. Burke reinforces her place in the top rank of suspense writers.

Find Me is a gem, the sort of smart, suspenseful, slow burn that I love. The tension is palpable on every page, and I savored every surprise. Alafair Burke is a treasure.

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Alafair burke.

Alafair Burke is the New York Times and internationally bestselling author of twenty novels.

Her most recent novel, FIND ME, has been called a "skillfully constructed, delightfully twisty thriller" (Booklist) and "a twisting, surprising, and satisfying new thrill ride" (Ms. Magazine). THE BETTER SISTER has been praised as “twisty” (BookBub), “mesmerizing” (Publishers Weekly), “fast-moving” (Library Journal), and “a non-stop thriller fest” (Suspense Magazine). THE WIFE was selected as a best-of-the-month pick by Amazon, Barnes & Noble, Entertainment Weekly, O (Oprah Magazine), and others. It is being adapted as a feature film, with Alafair writing the screenplay.

Her 2016 novel, THE EX, was nominated for an Edgar Award for Best Novel.

In addition to the standalone novels that have earned her a reputation as “a genius for plot” (Oprah Magazine) and “a virtuoso” of domestic suspense (Minneapolis Star Tribune), she authors “two power house series” (Sun-Sentinel) featuring NYPD Detective Ellie Hatcher and Portland Deputy District Attorney Samantha Kincaid. Alafair is also the co-author of the “Under Suspicion” series with Queen of Suspense Mary Higgins Clark.

Alafair's novels grow out of her experience as a prosecutor in America's police precincts and criminal courtrooms, and have been featured by The Today Show, People Magazine, The New York Times, O Magazine, MSNBC, The Washington Post, USA Today, and The Chicago Sun-Times. Harlan Coben has said she is "a major talent," and Dennis Lehane called her "one of the finest young crime writers working today" back when she was young.

A graduate of Stanford Law School and a former prosecutor, Alafair is now a professor at Hofstra Law School, where she teaches criminal law and procedure. She lives in New York City and East Hampton with her husband and two beloved dogs.

Learn more about Alafair at www.alafairburke.com. Follow her on Facebook, Twitter, and/or Instagram if you're prepared for a healthy dose of dog photos along with your book news.

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    Consequently, the book works well as a standalone or an addition to the Ellie Hatcher canon depending on how readers wish to approach it. Find Me ranks among Alafair Burke's best. Stellar characterization and surprising twists abound, but it's the deft handling of topics such as dissociative fugue—still very much a mystery, which lends ...

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    This book by Alafair Burke captivated me from beginning to end. I got invested in several of the characters and did not want to see them come to harm, especially since danger and circumstances with no explanation were lurking around every corner. The main character is Hope, who lost her memory (which had never returned) in a devastating car ...

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    Hi everyone. This is the author, Alafair Burke. I won't give myself all the stars I think this book deserves, but I did want to make clear that FIND ME is a standalone! One of my recurring characters, Ellie Hatcher, does appear on the page. Those of you who have missed her can say hello. But you definitely don't need to read the Hatcher series to enjoy this novel. Happy reading!!

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    Find Me by Alafair Burke Format: eARC Source: supplied by publisher via Edelweiss Formats available: hardcover, paperback, ebook, audiobook Genres: mystery, suspense, thriller Series: Ellie Hatcher #6 Pages: 293 Published by Harper on January 11, 2022 Purchasing Info: Author's Website, Publisher's Website, Amazon, Barnes & Noble, Kobo, Bookshop.org, Better World Books

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    Review: Find Me by Alafair Burke is an intriguing mystery with an interesting cast of characters. Lawyer Lindsay Kelly is very worried when her best friend Hope Miller does not return any of her calls. Hope has long term amnesia and has recently moved to the East Hamptons. Lindsay becomes increasingly concerned and cannot be dissuaded from ...

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