Böcker av Jacqueline Bublitz

You can run from your past, but not from the girls left behind.Nineteen years ago, Ruth-Anne Baker's childhood friend was murdered by suspected serial killer Ethan Oswald. Since that day, as much as she's tried to forget, she's been haunted by dead girls. And when another young girl goes missing from the same town, she can't help but be drawn back in to a world she's long since left behind.As she unlocks parts of herself that she hasn't dared to revisit, Ruth becomes certain a woman helped Oswald commit his terrible crimes. And so, under the guise of producing a true crime podcast, she sets out to prove her theory.Crossing the globe from New York to New Zealand, Ruth draws perilously closer to three very different women. The deeper she delves, the more she can't shake the feeling that one of them knows the truth - about her childhood friend. About the missing girl. And, perhaps most dangerously of all, about Ruth herself...Blending blisteringly taut suspense with a moving exploration of the ways in which violent crime ricochets through the lives of those left behind - by the victim, but also the killer - Leave the Girls Behind is a darkly beautiful and remarkably empathetic read that will linger long after you've turned the final page, for fans of Bright Young Women and Notes on an Execution.

"A psychological suspense novel about two young women who have recently moved to New York City: Alice, who is brutally murdered, and Ruby, who finds Alice and investigates her death"--

Alice and Ruby were always going to meet. But it didn't need to be like this. A startling, moving and uplifting novel about two women brought together in the most extreme of circumstances. Jacqueline Bublitz is - simply - the most remarkable debut novelist and hers will be a major reading group launch for 2021.

Before Ruby knew Alice's name, life was different. When she arrived in New York on her 18th birthday carrying nothing but $600 cash and a stolen camera, Alice 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 Lee'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. [quotes to come]