Alafair Burke is the New York Times bestselling author of fourteen novels, including The Better Sister, The Wife, The Ex, and Find Me, in addition to the Under Suspicion series, coauthored with Mary Higgins Clark. A former prosecutor, she now teaches criminal law and lives in New York City.
<b style="box-sizing: inherit; color: rgb(10, 10, 10); font-family: Hind, Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif;">The <i style="box-sizing: inherit;">New York Times </i>bestselling Under Suspicion series by the </b><b style="box-sizing: inherit; color: rgb(10, 10, 10); font-family: Hind, Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif;">“Queen of Suspense” Mary Higgins Clark and Alafair Burke returns with this gripping mystery following television producer’s Laurie Moran investigation of the unsolved Met Gala murder—in which a wealthy widow was pushed to her death from the famous museum’s rooftop.</b><br style="box-sizing: inherit; color: rgb(10, 10, 10); font-family: Hind, Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif;"><br style="box-sizing: inherit; color: rgb(10, 10, 10); font-family: Hind, Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif;"><span style="color: rgb(10, 10, 10); font-family: Hind, Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif;">Laurie Moran’s professional life is a success—her television show </span><i style="box-sizing: inherit; color: rgb(10, 10, 10); font-family: Hind, Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif;">Under Suspicion</i><span style="color: rgb(10, 10, 10); font-family: Hind, Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif;"> is a hit, both in the ratings and its record of solving cold cases. But her romantic break from former host Alex Buckley has left her with on-air talent she can’t stand—Ryan Nichols—and a crippling sense of loneliness.</span><br style="box-sizing: inherit; color: rgb(10, 10, 10); font-family: Hind, Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif;"><br style="box-sizing: inherit; color: rgb(10, 10, 10); font-family: Hind, Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif;"><span style="color: rgb(10, 10, 10); font-family: Hind, Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif;">Now Ryan has suggested a new case. Three years ago, Virginia Wakeling, a member of the Board of Trustees of the Metropolitan Museum of Art and one of the museum’s most generous donors, was found dead in the snow, after being thrown from the museum’s roof on the night of the Met Gala. The leading suspect then and now is her much younger boyfriend and personal trainer, Ivan Gray.</span><br style="box-sizing: inherit; color: rgb(10, 10, 10); font-family: Hind, Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif;"><br style="box-sizing: inherit; color: rgb(10, 10, 10); font-family: Hind, Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif;"><span style="color: rgb(10, 10, 10); font-family: Hind, Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif;">Ivan runs a trendy, successful boutique gym called Punch—a business funded in no small part by the late Virginia—which happens to be the gym Ryan frequents. Laurie’s skepticism about the case is upended by a tip from her father’s NYPD connection, and soon Laurie realizes there are a bevy of suspects—including Virginia’s trusted inner circle.</span><br style="box-sizing: inherit; color: rgb(10, 10, 10); font-family: Hind, Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif;">
