Alafair Burke Books in Order

Portland prosecutor Samantha Kincaid pursues attempted murder charges after a thirteen-year-old girl is attacked. Preparing the case draws her into an underage prostitution ring, a death penalty prosecution and the possibility of a serial killer.

Newly assigned to major crimes, Samantha Kincaid investigates the disappearance of a Portland judge. Pressure for a quick resolution clashes with evidence of older secrets and corruption, drawing the prosecutor toward people with considerable power.

After investigative reporter Percy Crenshaw is murdered, Portland prosecutor Samantha Kincaid questions a suspect's withdrawn confession. Following the journalist's work exposes connections between drug dealers and police, straining her relationship with her detective boyfriend.

New York detective Ellie Hatcher joins a homicide investigation linking murdered women to an online dating service. Going undercover makes her a potential target and revives memories of her father's fatal pursuit of a serial killer.

The murder of visiting college student Chelsea Hart draws Ellie Hatcher into Manhattan's nightclub scene. Although police identify a promising suspect, similarities to older killings persuade Ellie to keep investigating beyond the department's preferred explanation.

When an NYU student is murdered after receiving online threats, Ellie Hatcher investigates connections to other deaths. A missing roommate and links to a powerful real estate figure complicate the search for the person responsible.

After being attacked while on police duty, a female officer faces a danger closer to home. She must protect her husband from his own worst impulses as the aftermath of the assault threatens their lives together.

Alice Humphrey's new job managing a Manhattan art gallery seems ideal until she finds its rooms stripped bare and her employer dead. With police treating her as a suspect, she investigates the deception surrounding her employment.

Ellie Hatcher initially accepts a privileged teenager's death as suicide, despite her parents' objections. Pressure to investigate leads Ellie into a circle of classmates, prescription drugs and cyberbullying, where threats continue after the girl's death.

Journalist McKenna Jordan investigates a woman filmed rescuing a teenager from subway tracks. The stranger resembles a close friend who vanished ten years earlier, drawing McKenna into secrets involving her own marriage and former legal career.

Disgraced former cop Perry Christo, now a private investigator, is hired to find the wealthy daughter of an Upper East Side socialite. The search moves through wintry New York and the Hamptons in a serial noir novel written chapter by chapter by twenty mystery authors.

A psychotherapist's murder raises doubts about a convicted serial killer's guilt. Ellie Hatcher and J. J. Rogan review his old cases while a lawyer whose sister was among the victims joins efforts to challenge his conviction.

Laurie Moran’s show tackles the decades‑old murder of Susan Dempsey, a brilliant student found dead in a Hollywood canyon instead of at the audition she never reached. Reuniting suspects and witnesses on set brings long‑hidden motives and a watching killer to light.

A distraught mother asks Under Suspicion to revisit her daughter’s disappearance on the eve of a lavish destination wedding. Laurie Moran brings the bridal party, jilted groom, and family to the same resort, hoping the cameras will finally reveal what happened to the missing bride.

Defense lawyer Olivia Randall represents her former fiance after his arrest for a triple homicide. Certain he has been framed, she investigates the evidence while confronting old regrets and doubts about how well she ever knew him.

Years after Casey Carter is convicted of killing her wealthy fiancé as he slept, she insists she was framed. Featuring her story on Under Suspicion, Laurie Moran must decide whether Casey is a wronged woman or a manipulative killer while someone works hard to keep the truth hidden.

During a glittering gala at New York’s Met, a wealthy widow falls—or is pushed—from the museum’s rooftop garden. Laurie Moran’s team restages the event for Under Suspicion, uncovering jealous relatives, art‑world rivalries, and a stalker who may strike again.

After losing a criminal case, prosecutor Diane Light must decide how far she will go to protect a young girl. This short story follows the conflict between a courtroom outcome and her concern for Kylie's future.

Angela Powell believes her husband when women accuse him of misconduct. After one accuser disappears, defending him threatens to expose Angela's own hidden past, forcing her to reconsider the marriage that gave her a fresh start.

Laurie Moran profiles the unsolved shooting of a famous physician whose controlling behavior extended far beyond his marriage. As filming begins, anonymous threats and unnerving videos suggest someone close to the case still wants his widow, and the truth, silenced.

The murder of a Manhattan lawyer reunites estranged sisters Chloe and Nicky Taylor, his widow and former wife. Old resentments complicate their efforts to face the investigation together as their intertwined family history comes under scrutiny.

While Under Suspicion investigates the disappearance of a toddler from a family’s Hamptons birthday party years earlier, Laurie Moran also faces a tragedy close to home. The case weaves together sibling rivalries, a violent storm, and the devastating cost of one terrible decision.

When Hope Miller disappears, her friend Lindsay Kelly searches for the woman who has lived with amnesia for fifteen years. A blood sample linked to a Kansas killer brings detective Ellie Hatcher and her family's past into the investigation.

Decades after their childhood abduction, Melissa and Mike Eldredge help their mother Nancy relocate from Cape Cod to the Hamptons. When Melissa’s young stepdaughter disappears under eerily similar circumstances, they must confront old trauma to save her before history repeats itself.

During a Hamptons reunion with longtime friends Lauren and Kelsey, May Hanover joins a drunken prank that leaves a stranger missing. As police focus on the three women, old scandals and buried secrets make May question whom she can trust.