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Issue Details: First known date: 2021... 2021 Before You Knew My Name
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'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.' (Publication summary)

Publication Details of Only Known VersionEarliest 2 Known Versions of

    • Crows Nest, North Sydney - Lane Cove area, Sydney Northern Suburbs, Sydney, New South Wales,: Allen and Unwin , 2021 .
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      Extent: 336p.
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      • Published May 2021
      ISBN: 9781760878856
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Works about this Work

Before You Knew My Name by Jacqueline Bublitz Review – More Than a Gripping Whodunnit Zoya Patel , 2021 single work review
— Appears in: The Guardian Australia , 18 June 2021;
— Review of Before You Knew My Name Jacqueline Bublitz , 2021 single work novel

'The Melbourne writer’s debut novel challenges the conventions of the crime genre, weaving feminism, philosophy and mortality throughout.'
Jacqueline Bublitz on Bringing the Dead Girl Back to Life : ‘I Didn’t Set Out to Write a Crime Novel’ Lucy Clark , 2021 single work review
— Appears in: The Guardian Australia , 15 June 2021;
— Review of Before You Knew My Name Jacqueline Bublitz , 2021 single work novel

'As any reader of crime fiction knows, dead girls on page one are a dime a dozen. The formula has been tried and tested ad nauseam: a mutilated body is discovered in grisly fashion, forensic mysteries and inconsistencies follow, and then hundreds of pages are concerned with whodunnit.' (Introduction)
Jacqueline Bublitz on Bringing the Dead Girl Back to Life : ‘I Didn’t Set Out to Write a Crime Novel’ Lucy Clark , 2021 single work review
— Appears in: The Guardian Australia , 15 June 2021;
— Review of Before You Knew My Name Jacqueline Bublitz , 2021 single work novel

'As any reader of crime fiction knows, dead girls on page one are a dime a dozen. The formula has been tried and tested ad nauseam: a mutilated body is discovered in grisly fashion, forensic mysteries and inconsistencies follow, and then hundreds of pages are concerned with whodunnit.' (Introduction)
Before You Knew My Name by Jacqueline Bublitz Review – More Than a Gripping Whodunnit Zoya Patel , 2021 single work review
— Appears in: The Guardian Australia , 18 June 2021;
— Review of Before You Knew My Name Jacqueline Bublitz , 2021 single work novel

'The Melbourne writer’s debut novel challenges the conventions of the crime genre, weaving feminism, philosophy and mortality throughout.'
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