All Day and a Night by Alafair Burke

All Day and a Night

A Novel of Suspense

Alafair Burke

HarperCollins · Print & ebook · June 16, 2015

“Spring loaded and razor sharp, All Day and a Night is a surprising and compelling thriller.

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Who it’s for
Follow Ellie Hatcher through a tense investigation where old convictions and new violence collide.
Genres
Police Procedurals, Suspense, Women Detectives
Published
HarperCollins, June 16, 2015

About this book

“Spring loaded and razor sharp, All Day and a Night is a surprising and compelling thriller. But Alafair Burke has given us something more gripping than just a crime novel.

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Her story is about women, their drive, their compassion, and their public and private battles for success and acceptance.” — Ivy Pochoda, author of Visitation Street A new murder case with ties to a convicted serial killer leads Detective Ellie Hatcher into a twisting investigation with explosive and deadly results in this superb mystery from the “terrific web spinner” (Entertainment Weekly) and New York Times Bestselling author Alafair Burke. When psychotherapist Helen Brunswick is murdered in her Park Slope office, the entire city suspects her estranged husband—until the District Attorney’s office receives an anonymous letter. The letter’s author knows a chilling detail that police have kept secret: the victim’s bones were broken after she was killed. Her injuries were eerily similar to the signature used twenty years earlier by Anthony Amaro, a serial killer serving a life sentence for his crimes. Now, Amaro is asking to be released from prison, arguing that he was wrongly convicted, and that the true killer is still on the loose. NYPD Detectives Ellie Hatcher and JJ Rogan are tapped as the “fresh look” team to reassess the original investigation that led to Amaro’s conviction. The case pits them against both their fellow officers and a hard-charging celebrity defense lawyer with a young associate named Carrie Blank, whose older sister was one of Amaro’s victims. As the NYPD and Amaro’s lawyers search for certainty among conflicting evidence, their investigations take them back to Carrie’s hometown, where secrets buried long ago lead to a brutal attack—one that makes it terrifyingly clear that someone has gotten too close to the truth.

Cases Reopened

Follow Ellie Hatcher through a tense investigation where old convictions and new violence collide.

Come here for

  • A police procedural where a new murder reopens a serial killer’s conviction
  • Conflicting evidence and a case that crosses police and legal lines

Expect

  • A twisting mystery built around a “fresh look” at an earlier case
  • A sharp focus on women’s public and private battles for acceptance

Where it sits

Police Procedurals88%
Suspense28%
Women Detectives28%

Percentages are BookFrontier’s reading of the book.

Publisher categories

  • Mystery
  • Police Procedurals
  • Women Detectives
  • International Crime Fiction
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  • Amateur Sleuths
  • Suspense
  • Crime Fiction
  • Legal Thrillers
Authors
Alafair Burke
Publisher
HarperCollins
Published
June 16, 2015
Format
Print & ebook
Reading lane
Mystery