Alafair Burke
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Mary Higgins Clark:
4. I am incredibly honored to be your first co-author other than your talented and beloved daughter, Carol. How did you go about choosing a collaborator for the "Under Suspicion" series? And how would you compare the process of co-authoring to writing exclusively on your own?
Mary Higgins Clark
I was given the books of four authors. I read them very, very carefully, and I immediately sensed that Alafair and I were in the same vein, and it would be very smooth to work with her.
When I am on my own, I am creating situations, creating characters, getting the feel of the people, and getting to know if I want to make a trip with them. While working with Alafair, we had the back-and-forth of who these people are, what is their relationship to each other, and of course, the basic plot. We were completely in tune, and I think the book shows it!
When I am on my own, I am creating situations, creating characters, getting the feel of the people, and getting to know if I want to make a trip with them. While working with Alafair, we had the back-and-forth of who these people are, what is their relationship to each other, and of course, the basic plot. We were completely in tune, and I think the book shows it!
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Kathy G.
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Mary Higgins Clark:
What was the strangest way you got an inspiration for a character in your books?
Alafair Burke
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Mary Higgins Clark:
3. THE CINDERELLA MURDER involves the investigation into the murder of a promising UCLA college student named Susan Dempsey. One of the challenges of crime fiction is to make victims feel real to readers who may only "meet" a murder victim on the page for a short time, if at all. Do you think we met that challenge in THE CINDERELLA MURDER? What will make readers care about Susan?
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