I am really, I think, truly an easygoing, positive, fun person.

It's the Snickers bars. Snickers equal romance.

Truth is, every writer has to be a good editor, and you have to edit yourself. It's a skill every writer has to acquire.

My theory is that you find out who your true friends are when something good happens to you, not when something bad happens to you. Everybody loves you when something bad happens to you. Then you're easy to love.

I love the dignity in the name Philadelphia, but at heart, we're Philly.

I still think I'm writing Nancy Drew with a mortgage.

Alafair Burke's first standalone is a must read! You'll lose yourself in this riveting story of Alice Humphrey, a woman whose nightmare begins when she goes to work at her new gallery job, only to find everything gone—and a murdered man on the floor. You can't guess the plot twists that follow, as Alice's whole word turns upside down and she has to question everyone and everything she thought was real. And the ending is a shocker you'll never see coming.