Mystery spotlight
The Note
by Alafair Burke
Three friends leave a petty, joking note on a stranger's windscreen. By morning the driver is missing.
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One small act of revenge in a Hamptons parking space becomes a police investigation - and each woman has a reason not to be looked at closely.
Publisher's blurb
Synopsis
Burke's thriller runs on the friendship between three women whose lives were each derailed by a public scandal. The plot is a clockwork of alibis and old headlines, but the interest is in what the trio conceal from one another and how quickly solidarity becomes leverage.
The editorial feature
A genuinely well-plotted summer mystery with something to say about the internet's appetite for a villainess. Burke's court-trained ear for interrogation gives the middle section its bite.
Book details
- Genre
- Mystery
- Released
- 14 January 2025
- Publisher
- Knopf
- Extent
- 320 pages
- Featured on
- 14 January 2025
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