Win a signed copy of Dead Connection

Win a signed copy of Dead Connection by Alafair Burke

To kick off the launch of her new thriller Dead Connection, author
Alafair Burke is giving away signed copies of her book. At some time
in your life, you had a first date, blind date, internet date, or
perhaps a didn't-even-know-it was-supposed-to-be-a-date date that
makes a great story, whether sweet, embarrassing, or laugh out loud
hilarious. Tell Alafair your story and the authors of the top 5
stories will receive signed copies of Dead Connection.

To enter, please visit http://www.alafairburke.com/first_date.htm

Dead Connection
By Alafair Burke
Published by Henry Holt and Company, LLC
July 2007;$19.95US/$24.95CAN; 978-0-8050-7785-8

In this electrifying thriller, a rookie detective goes undercover on
the internet dating scene to draw out a serial killer targeting single
women in Manhattan.

When two young women are murdered on the streets of New York, exactly
one year apart, Detective Ellie Hatcher is called up for a special
assignment on the homicide task force. The killer has left behind a
clue connecting the two cases to FirstDate.com, a popular online
dating service, and Flann McIlroy, an eccentric, publicity-seeking
homicide detective, is convinced that only Ellie can help him pursue
his terrifying theory: Someone is using the lure of the Internet and
the promise of love to launch a killing spree against the women of New
York City.

To catch the killer, Ellie must enter a high-tech world of stolen
identities where no one is who they appear to be. And for her, the
investigation quickly becomes personal. She fits the profile of the
victims, and she knows firsthand what pursuing a sociopath can do to a
cop -- back home in Wichita, Kansas, her own father lost his life
trying to catch a notorious serial murderer.

When the FirstDate killer begins to mimic the monster who destroyed
her father, Ellie knows the game has become personal for him, too.
Both hunter and prey, she must find the killer before he claims his
next victim -- who could very well be herself.

Expertly plotted and perfectly paced, Dead Connection catapults
Alafair Burke to the front ranks of American thriller writers, and
introduces the dynamic Ellie Hatcher to readers eager for a young,
fresh heroine in the gritty world of the NYPD.

Author
A former deputy district attorney in Portland, Oregon, Alafair Burke
now teaches criminal law at Hofstra Law School and lives in New York
City. She is the daughter of the acclaimed crime writer James Lee
Burke. Her three novels in the Samantha Kincaid series, Judgment
Calls, Missing Justice, and Close Case, are available in paperback
from St. Martin's Press. Dead Connection is her first thriller
featuring Ellie Hatcher.