Even Gone With the Wind had a shocking, cold-blooded murder.

[On men:] ... you never know what they're like until you get them home and take them out of their packages.

Alafair Burke understands the criminal mind. Long Gone is both an education and an entertainment of the first order. This is a very clever and very smart novel by a very clever and smart writer. The dialogue crackles, the plot is intriguing, and the pacing is perfect.

I grew up reading crime fiction and, especially in the '80s, women were just there to be saved or screwed.

Long Gone is the type of book that should come with a warning. It’s a compulsively readable, highly addictive story. The ending will leave you breathless.

I'm sold as a literary writer in Holland; I'm sold as crime fiction in England. I think of it as just literature.

A lot of men just don't read. They don't read fiction at all.