I have a few unusual fans, as you can imagine, so I try to protect the privacy of my home life.

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.

I think a lot of guys who are on the internet a lot, they're kind of anesthetized to some of the violent language and all that because they see it all the time.

You can only make decisions with the information you have at the time

You can take my heart, but I can't let you take my dog.

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.