Before You Knew My Name by Jacqueline Bublitz review – more than a gripping whodunnit

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

Two women arrive in New York on the same day, both determined to change their lives in a city famous for new beginnings. Weeks later, one is dead and the other is reeling from discovering her brutalised body – and becomes obsessed with solving the murder.

The debut novel of Melbourne writer Jacqueline Bublitz, Before You Knew My Name, is essentially a crime novel, but that label feels reductive here. The narrative is more complex than a whodunnit, traversing romance, philosophy, feminism, politics and inequality.

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