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Anne Burt

Biography

Anne Burt

Anne Burt is the coauthor with Christina Baker Kline of the thriller PLEASE DON'T LIE. Anne’s debut novel, THE DIG, was a March 2023 American Booksellers' Association Indie Next pick and the Strand Bookstore's mystery selection of the month. Anne is also the editor of MY FATHER MARRIED YOUR MOTHER: Dispatches from the Blended Family and coeditor, with Christina Baker Kline, of ABOUT FACE: Women Write About What They See When They Look in the Mirror. Her essays and fiction have appeared in numerous publications and venues, including Salon, NPR and The Christian Science Monitor; she is a past winner of Meridian’s Editors’ Prize in Fiction. Anne graduated from Yale in 1989 with a BA in history, and from NYU in 1997 with an MFA in creative writing. She lives in Weston, Connecticut and New York City.

Anne Burt

Books by Anne Burt

Please Don't Lie
by Christina Baker Kline and Anne Burt - Fiction, Psychological Suspense, Psychological Thriller, Suspense, Thriller

Two years ago, Hayley Stone lost everything. First, her parents died in a devastating fire. Then, her sister overdosed, leaving Hayley alone and hounded by a media circus that turned her family’s tragedy into tabloid fodder. When her new husband suggests a fresh start in the Adirondacks, the promise of anonymity in an isolated mountain town feels like salvation. But the mountains hold darker secrets than she ever imagined. Her once-loving husband grows distant and volatile. The widow down the road keeps spewing vague accusations. Not even their new friends can help her shake the creeping sense that something is off. As winter edges closer, Hayley discovers that her sanctuary is anything but safe. In trying to escape her past, she may have run straight into something far more dangerous.

The Dig
by Anne Burt - Fiction, Suspense, Thriller

Antonia King has a complicated relationship with the past. She and her brother were found amid the rubble of a bombed-out apartment in Sarajevo and taken in by a family of contractors in Thebes, Minnesota. Eager to escape the constraints of her adopted town, Antonia embarks on a high-powered legal career. But it isn’t long before her brother’s mysterious disappearance pulls her back home. There, over the course of a single day, Antonia unearths decades of secrets and lies, leading to shocking revelations about her adoptive family --- and the sinister truth behind her biological mother’s death --- that will alter the course of her life and change her definition of family forever.