Because She Looked Away

After the sudden death of her sister, devastated detective DS Ronnie Blake relocates to Cambridge to help her brother Alex raise their sister''s young son, Noah. She reports for her first day but instead finds herself being questioned by a special investigations unit, nicknamed the DEAD Team. With a small group of six, the once-successful DEAD team has a single outstanding case, Operation Byron, and the failure to resolve it threatens the unit''s existence. Their most promising lead is an anonymous note linking three seemingly unconnected people: a convicted fraudster, a dead academic... and Ronnie''s sister Jodie. When Ronnie is denied information about Operation Byron, she follows a lead and makes a discovery which links Operation Byron to a disturbing unsolved murder. She is rapidly drawn into an intricate web of deceit, buried secrets and tragedy and the discovery that her connection to Cambridge is far darker than she could ever have guessed. Praise for Alison Bruce '' Alison Bruce always delivers. Her latest is tense, twisty, terrific'' Ian Rankin '' 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 ''As always, Bruce produces a rewarding read'' The Times ''One of our most interesting crime writers'' Daily Mail

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.