Before You Knew My Name

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Author
Jacqueline Bublitz
Publisher
Allen & Unwin
Genres
Fiction, Thriller

Before You Knew My Name

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    Synopsis

    This is not just another novel about a dead girl.

    When she arrived in New York on her 18th birthday carrying nothing but $600 cash and a stolen camera, Alice Lee was looking for a fresh start. Now, just one month later, she is the city's latest Jane Doe, an unidentified murder victim.

    Ruby Jones is also trying to start over; she travelled halfway around the world only to find herself lonelier than ever. Until she finds Alice's body by the Hudson River.

    From this first, devastating encounter, the two women form an unbreakable bond. Alice is sure that Ruby is the key to solving the mystery of her life - and death. And Ruby - struggling to forget what she saw that morning - finds herself unable to let Alice go. Not until she is given the ending she deserves.

    Before You Knew My Name doesn't ask whodunnit. Instead, this powerful, hopeful novel asks: Who was she? And what did she leave behind? The answers might surprise you.

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    Powerful and Devastating: Read an Extract from Before You Knew My Name by Jacqueline Bublitz

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    Powerful and Devastating: Read an Extract from Before You Knew My Name by Jacqueline Bublitz

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          Jacqueline Bublitz
          About the author

          Jacqueline Bublitz

          Jacqueline 'Rock' Bublitz is a writer, feminist, and arachnophobe, who lives between Melbourne, Australia and her hometown on the west coast of New Zealand's North Island. She wrote her debut novel Before You Knew My Name after spending a summer in New York, where she hung around morgues and the dark corners of city parks (and the human psyche) far too often. She is now working on her second novel, where she continues to explore the grand themes of love, loss and connection.

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