Jacqueline Bublitz’s first novel, Before You Knew My Name, was praised for the way it used the trappings of crime fiction to explore feminism and female resilience against the onslaught of male violence. In her second novel, she takes another run at similar themes; the result is a complex and sometimes confronting read.
We meet Ruth, our protagonist, on the day a young girl goes missing from her home town. The disappearance triggers old traumas in Ruth – when she was a child, her best friend, Beth, was kidnapped and murdered in the same town.
