In Burke’s latest page-turner, a vacation in the Hamptons goes terribly wrong for three friends with a complicated history. Kirkus Reviews, in a starred review, calls The Note “Engrossing…Burke builds an intricate structure of secrets layered within secrets, revealed for maximum suspense.”
Growing up, May Hanover was a good girl, always. Well-behaved, top of her class, a compulsive rule-follower. Raised by a first-generation Chinese single mother with high expectations, May didn’t have room to slip up, let alone fail. Her friends didn’t call her the Little Sherriff for nothing. However, even good girls have secrets, and regrets. When May and two of her old friends are reunited for the first time in years for a few days of sun and fun, there’s a chance encounter with a pair of strangers that goes horribly wrong.
Alafair Burke is the Edgar-nominated, New York Times and internationally bestselling author of fourteen novels of suspense, including The Ex, The Wife, The Better Sister, and Find Me, and coauthor of the best-selling Under Suspicion series. A former prosecutor, she is now a professor of criminal law at Hofstra University. She recently served as president of the Mystery Writers of America and was the first woman of color to be elected to the position.