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Alexandra Burt
Alexandra Burt is a freelance translator based in the US. Born near Frankfurt in Germany, she moved
to Texas 20 years ago. While pursuing literary translations, she decided to tell her own stories. After
years of writing classes and gluttonous reading, her short fiction has appeared in fiction journals and
literary reviews. She also teaches short story writing at a local college. Remember Mia was her first
novel, published as Little Girl Gone in the UK where it was a bestseller. It was also a bestseller in
Germany and sold in four other countries. Her new novel, The Good Daughter, will be published
early in 2017.
Books:
Remember Mia
Book agent: Laura Longrigg
Publisher: Berkley Publishing US
Published date: US - July 2015
Book category: Fiction
Foreign rights owned: MBA
Rights sold: Germany - DTV; US - Penguin / Berkley (Michelle Vega); UK – Avon; Czech Republic Columbus; Poland – Swiat Ksiazki.
In this riveting psychological suspense debut, a young mother’s worst nightmare
becomes devastatingly real…
First I remember the darkness.
Then I remember the blood.
I don’t know where my daughter is.
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Estelle Paradise wakes up in a hospital after being found near dead at the bottom of a ravine with a
fragmented memory and a vague sense of loss. Then a terrifying reality sets in: her daughter is
missing.
Days earlier, Estelle discovered her baby’s crib empty in their Brooklyn apartment. There was no
sign of a break-in, but all traces of seven-month-old Mia had disappeared. Her diapers, her clothes,
her bottles—all gone.
Frustrated and unable to explain her daughter’s disappearance, Estelle begins a desperate search.
But when the lack of evidence casts doubt on her story, Estelle becomes the number one suspect in
the eyes of the police and the media.
As hope of reuniting with Mia becomes all she has left, Estelle will do anything to find answers: What
has she done to her baby? And what has someone done to her?
Reviews:
‘Fast-paced and gripping…the author’s ability to keep the reader guessing undoubtedly make this novel difficult to put down.’ INDEPENDENT
‘A good, twisty read.’ DAILY MAIL
‘A gruesomely compelling tale.’ METRO
‘A page-turner too addictive to put down.’ OPRAH
‘Your heart will beat faster with every page.’ HUFFINGTON POST
'As riveting as Gone Girl, but with an even sharper emotional edge, this
story of a missing seven-month-old baby and the mother who has no
recollection of the events surrounding her daughter's disappearance will
pull you in from the very first page. The fast-paced plot, psychological
intrigue, and engrossing twists will have you flipping pages faster and
faster as Estelle's memories are gradually uncovered and piece by jagged
piece the puzzle comes together.'
-Kelly Jones, Author of Lost and Found in Prague
'REMEMBER MIA is a twisty, gripping read—beautifully written and impossible to put down.'
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-Meg Gardiner, Edgar Award winning author
The Good Daughter
Book agent: Laura Longrigg
Published date: US Berkley, UK Avon February 2017
Book category: Fiction
Foreign rights owned: MBA
Rights sold: UK, US and Poland.
‘It all started with the crickets.’
Dahlia Waller returns to her home town of Aurora, Texas, to live with her mother, Memphis. She is
determined to mend their mother-daughter relationship and get answers about her rather
unorthodox childhood spent in hiding and on the run.
Only months into her stay, Dahlia discovers a barely alive Jane Doe (unidentified woman) in the
woods. In her panic to get help she falls into a stream – almost immediately she starts to
experience an extreme sense of smell and alarming blackouts and hallucinations. She also develops
a fixation on Jane Doe and other missing women. With the help of her childhood friend, Bobby de la
Vega, a police officer, she looks into the other old case files and in the process comes across a
property on the outskirts of Aurora. The old farmhouse is seemingly frozen in time, down to the
silverware in drawers and sheets on the beds, and a mysterious jar of dead crickets on the
windowsill. The deeds to the house are in her mother’s name.
It’s also empty and when Dahlia and her mother are made homeless – Memphis set fire to her
bedroom – they move in. Memories flood in for both women, painful for Dahlia who has no idea of
the events that took place thirty years before - and for Memphis because she does, she was there…
Reviews:
'A stunning read from a superb storyteller.'
Clare Macintosh
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'A Good Daughter by Alexandra Burt is stunning. Every landscape, from rural Texas to the dark past
of the characters, is intricately and beautifully crafted, pulling you in from the very first page to the
very last. Rarely do we get to enjoy psychological suspense with such extraordinary descriptive
narration. It's a wonderful read!'
Wendy Walker
Little Girl Gone (UK)
Book agent: Laura Longrigg
Publisher: Avon
Published date: 24 September 2015
Book category: Fiction
In this riveting psychological suspense debut, a young mother’s worst nightmare
becomes devastatingly real…
First I remember the darkness.
Then I remember the blood.
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I don’t know where my daughter is.
Estelle Paradise wakes up in a hospital after being found near dead at the bottom of a ravine with a
fragmented memory and a vague sense of loss. Then a terrifying reality sets in: her daughter is
missing.
Days earlier, Estelle discovered her baby’s crib empty in their Brooklyn apartment. There was no
sign of a break-in, but all traces of seven-month-old Mia had disappeared. Her diapers, her clothes,
her bottles—all gone.
Frustrated and unable to explain her daughter’s disappearance, Estelle begins a desperate search.
But when the lack of evidence casts doubt on her story, Estelle becomes the number one suspect in
the eyes of the police and the media.
As hope of reuniting with Mia becomes all she has left, Estelle will do anything to find answers: What
has she done to her baby? And what has someone done to her?
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Reviews:
‘Fast-paced and gripping…the author’s ability to keep the reader guessing undoubtedly make this novel difficult to put down.’ INDEPENDENT
‘A good, twisty read.’ DAILY MAIL
‘A gruesomely compelling tale.’ METRO
‘A page-turner too addictive to put down.’ OPRAH
‘Your heart will beat faster with every page.’ HUFFINGTON POST
‘A twisty, gripping read – beautifully written and impossible to put down.’ MEG GARDINER, Edgar Award winning author
“Skip your morning coffee as you read this one. Your heart will pound a little faster with every page.”—Oprah.com
"As riveting as Gone
Girl, but with an even sharper emotional edge, this story of a missing
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seven-month-old baby and the mother who has no recollection of the events surrounding her
daughter’s disappearance will pull you in from the very first page. The fast-paced plot, psychological
intrigue, and engrossing twists will have you flipping pages faster and faster as Estelle’s memories
are gradually uncovered and piece by jagged piece the puzzle comes together."—Kelly Jones, Author
of Lost and Found in Prague
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