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Marcia Legates Dunn Have a great Thanksgiving with your family...hope all is well and life is good!
Lisa Marrone 2 Great Authors!!!
Rick Bonner Both GREAT THANKS
Mary Ritter Bast Good job, Alafair! I finished Angel's Tip last night - tried not to race through it but it was so compelling I read it in two nights. Great character development (I feel like I know them), and in particularl, I appreciate your sensitivity about the women who were murdered.
Nancy Heuer-Evans I think it's a rare and wondrous thing to write books that stimulate strangers to log into a site and share their thoughts. Your books, Mr. Burke, have transported me through space and time and culture on many sleepless nights. The language thrills my eyes and ears and heart---there are times when I have to stop and re...-read a passage aloud to my husband so he can hear the melody of it. There's a grace to the decay, an art to the violence and an overriding compassion for the broken people that sings through your work and resonates in my soul. Each time I've picked up a novel of yours, I feel like I'm getting to go on a (possibly perilous and yet amazing) vacation with my very best friend. How odd is must be for you to have your readers excavate through your writings and feel like they know you as a result. Please don't stop doing what you do--it reaffirms my faith that fiction is transformative when it's done well, and that really good writers actually change our lives.
Mary Ritter Bast Wow, so Alifair is real! To James Lee, I'm sure you know this and have been told it a million times, but I'll say it anyway: Your writing is equal to or better than any novelist today and you've raised the mystery genre to an art. To Alifair, I'll look forward to reading your work.
Roger Hi, Mr Burke- I'm new to your work. I read Jolie Blon's Bounce last year, and was just struck dumb by the whole thing. Now am reading Crusader's Cross. You do great work. Keep doing what you do!
Kay Bush Sealy Thank you for the wonderful books you have written. It has given me great pleasure to read them all!!
James Lee and Alafair Burke
BTK. Charlie Manson. Ted Bundy. John Lithgow. Alafair blogs today about
the "Faces of Evil" at
http://www.murderati.com/blog/category/a
www.murderati.com
Authored by 12 of today's leading mystery and crime writers, MURDERATI examines critical themes, historical archetypes and trends in publishing, marketing and the life of the published author.
Linda Bohach Bellisario I still want to know if the ham and onion sandwich is a cold or hot sandwich and do you eat them or just Dave Robicheaux eats them?
Jen Emery
I
found your work, quite by accident, at the library one day, and after
reading one book, I spent the next 6 weeks devouring your works with
the urgency of one who has reunited with a long, lost love, and
attempts to make up for for the irretrievable years with an over
abundance of obsessive dedication bordering on the pat...hological. I
don't know how I've missed you.
I am a rather distinctly dark person, and it was quite liberating to
get to know your fictional character, Dave. Your descriptive writing,
from my perspective bordered on brilliance.
Jen Emery
I have always secretly
wished to write, and reading your work serves to remind me how
completely inadequate my work would be, so thank you for reminding me
how crappy my writing is by being so capable. The level of your skill
seems so high, one wonders why you chose the genre you did? You are so
obviously capable of anythin...g, why mystery fiction? Thank you, for the
biggest surprise of the year, and 6 weeks of complete happiness, and
upset, and anger, and all the emotions an author of your ability allows
the reader to experience. Thank you.
Tena Clark Faruque Happy Halloween!!
James Lee and Alafair Burke Happy Halloween from Jim and Alafair.
