Because She Looked Away

Fifteen-year-old Bethany Trent vanishes without a trace from a sunny Cambridge park, and for the next four years her sister Claire holds onto the hope of finding her alive, fighting to keep the case in the public eye. But when Claire inherits her mum''s house, she discovers a body in the garden which the police had already searched. After a family tragedy, DI Ronnie Blake reluctantly relocates to Cambridge to live with her brother Alex and nephew Noah. Although she prefers to work alone, she is put in charge of the small but disorderly missing persons'' team who first investigated Bethany''s disappearance. As Ronnie begins to uncover the clues in the original case notes and the secrets kept by Bethany''s family, she realises that the killer is playing a complex and deadly game. Ronnie needs to use her wits and unite her dysfunctional team to discover why Bethany had to die. Praise for Alison Bruce '' Alison Bruce always delivers. Her latest is tense, twisty, terrific'' Ian Rankin '' [Alison Bruce] has written a superior thriller, full of suppressed menace'' The Times Crime Club '' A powerful and absorbing story that stayed with me long after I''d finished reading. A writer at the top of her game'' Elly Griffiths ''Unpredictable, challenging and compelling'' Sophie Hannah ''Alison Bruce has long been one of the most adroit crime fiction practitioners in the UK . The Moment Before Impac t is . . . her most accomplished outing yet'' Barry Forshaw, Financial Time ''As always, Bruce produces a rewarding read'' The Times '' I Did It For Us held me from the off. It''s compelling, slickly plotted and brilliantly written'' Amanda Jennings ''One of our most interesting crime writers'' Daily Mail

Préface
A brilliant new crime novel from the author of the critically acclaimed DC Gary Goodhew series set in Cambridge

Auteur
Alison Bruce is the author of 10 crime novels and two non-fiction titles. Her first novel, Cambridge Blue, was described by Publishers Weekly as an 'assured debut' and introduced both detective, DC Gary Goodhew, and her trademark Cambridge setting. She went on to write six further novels in the DC Goodhew series before writing two psychological thrillers I Did It for Us and The Moment Before Impact. Because She Looked Away is the first in a new series, again set in Cambridge but this time featuring DCI Ronnie Blake and the DEAD team. Alison herself lives just outside Cambridge and has been shortlisted twice for the CWA Dagger in the Library award.

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Praise for Alison Bruce

'Alison Bruce always delivers. Her latest is tense, twisty, terrific' Ian Rankin

' [Alison Bruce] has written a superior thriller, full of suppressed menace'*The Times Crime Club*

'A powerful and absorbing story that stayed with me long after I'd finished reading. A writer at the top of her game' Elly Griffiths

'Unpredictable, challenging and compelling' Sophie Hannah

'Alison Bruce has long been one of the most adroit crime fiction practitioners in the UK. *The Moment Before Impac*t is . . . her most accomplished outing yet' Barry Forshaw, Financial Time

'As always, Bruce produces a rewarding read' *The Times

'*I Did It For Us held me from the off. It's compelling, slickly plotted and brilliantly written' **Amanda Jennings

'One of our most interesting crime writers'*Daily Mail

Alison Bruce is fascinating. Her imagination is always unpredictable and her writing is challenging and compelling* - Sophie Hannah

I Did It For Us held me from the off. It's compelling, slickly plotted and brilliantly written - Amanda Jennings

Résumé
A brilliant new crime novel from the author of the critically acclaimed DC Gary Goodhew series set in Cambridge