Before You Knew My Name
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3.9
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Jacqueline Bublitz
Winner of Crime Debut and Readers’ Choice Awards—Sisters in Crime Editors’ Choice/Staff Pick by The New York Times Book Review “A brave and timely novel.” —Clare Mackintosh, internationally bestselling author of Hostage This is not just another novel about a dead girl. Two women—one alive, one dead—are brought together in the dark underbelly of New York City to solve a tragic murder.When she arrived in New York on her eighteenth 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. She may be dead but that doesn’t mean her story is over. Meanwhile, Ruby Jones is also trying to reinvent herself. After travelling halfway around the world, she’s lonelier than ever in the Big Apple. Until she stumbles upon a woman’s body by the Hudson River, and suddenly finds herself unbreakably tied to the unknown dead woman. Alice is sure Ruby is the key to solving the mystery of her short life and tragic death. Ruby just wants to forget what she saw…but she can’t seem to stop thinking about the young woman she found. If she keeps looking, can she give this unidentified Jane Doe the ending and closure she deserves? A “heartbreaking, beautiful, and hugely important novel” (Rosie Walsh, New York Times bestselling author), Before You Knew My Name doesn’t just wonder whodunnit—it also asks who was she? And what did she leave behind?
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Author
Jacqueline Bublitz
Pages
320
Publisher
Simon and Schuster
Published Date
2022-11-01
ISBN
1982199016 9781982199012
Ratings
Google: 4
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" ⭐️⭐️⭐️⭐️"
Sher Free✌️
"Be prepared to not be able to put this book down! Aside from the bouncing around timeline this book was absolutely amazing!"
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Amanda Tucker
"Interesting perspective as author writes from the story from the murder victims posthumous perspective. Other than that the rest of story and characters fell flat to me. "
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Movie Critic
"Thank you to #netgalley for allowing me to give an honest review on this ARC. I liked this book, did not love it because I figured it out long before the ending."
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Y Bennett
"I read this book a while ago so it is hard for me to remember enough to give it a great rating. <br/><br/>I do remember it was relatively challenging for me to get through, the weight of the content and the speed at which the story moved made it hard for me to keep reading and I wanted to put the book down several times. I do however have several quotes that I wrote down from the book. I thought the topic of the oppression that women go through to be spoken on so eloquently, there were several times throughout the book that my thoughts felt extracted from my brain and painted onto the page. <br/><br/>Overall I really enjoyed the plot line. I thought that, while relatively predictable, the storyline was well thought out and considered, but more importantly I thought that the hard topics the text faced were dealt with logically and eloquently. I appreciated being broken hearted for these people and for the world that we live in where stories like this go untold and forgotten far too often. Glad to have read it, I think about this book often."
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Caitlin Betcher
