Usually, guys, when something bad happens, they punish someone else.

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.

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'm not somebody who believes in evil.

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

I don't understand people who say they're bored. Look out your window.