Before You Knew My Name Audible Audiobook – Unabridged

Jacqueline Bublitz (Author), Penelope Rawlins (Narrator), Wavesound from W. F. Howes Ltd (Publisher)

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When she arrived in New York on her 18th birthday, carrying nothing but $600 cash and a stolen camera, Alice Lee 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’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.

Listening Length

10 hours and 52 minutes
Author

Jacqueline Bublitz
Narrator

Penelope Rawlins
Audible release date

13 May 2021
Language

English
Publisher

Wavesound from W. F. Howes Ltd
ASIN

B094RBKN77
Version

Unabridged
Program Type

Audiobook
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Listening Length	10 hours and 52 minutes
Author	Jacqueline Bublitz
Narrator	Penelope Rawlins
Whispersync for Voice	Ready
Audible.com.au Release Date	13 May 2021
Publisher	Wavesound from W. F. Howes Ltd
Program Type	Audiobook
Version	Unabridged
Language	English
ASIN	B094RBKN77
Best Sellers Rank	592 in Audible Books & Originals (See Top 100 in Audible Books & Originals) 6 in Women Sleuth Mysteries (Audible Books & Originals) 19 in Women's Fiction (Audible Books & Originals) 57 in Women Sleuth Mysteries (Books)

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Breathe to Read

Brilliant

Reviewed in Australia on 17 May 2021

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As an avid reader, I refuse to waste my time with banal, ordinary writing. This book, however, was an absolute joy to read. Jacqueline Bublitz writes with precision and depth, peppering the novel with insights and truths that are so important in this world today. I often stopped to digest and ponder her observations before reading on. The characters are beautifully rendered, and the story is intricately woven and exquisitely crafted; an absolutely brilliant read. I am eagerly anticipating her next novel.

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Suzie Jackson

A moving and powerful story..

Reviewed in Australia on 21 May 2021

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The characters are natural and believable, descriptions clear and real. This book charts the predictable paths of its character’s lives, scarily recognisable. Even the intimate descriptions of New York landscape ring true to a non-American, but the killer is the clear, calm path toward ever-present danger that people, especially women walk every day. Reassurance of the apparent existence of an afterlife provides some comfort, but the dread of possibilities remains...

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Southern Woman

Captivating, beautiful, fresh and heaps of other things I don't have the words to articulate.

Reviewed in Australia on 9 February 2022

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My daughter said, this Kiwi author has produced this novel. It's a crime novel but from a fresh perspective. I love crime novels so thought I'd look it up. Turns out I already had it in my e library, my interest piqued when I read the description but hadn't read it. So I started reading, and couldn't pull myself away. This book is amazing. Very different, utterly compelling, complex but easy to read. It filled my world the three nights it took me to read. Now, where's her next book....

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Davina MacLeod

Compelling reading.

Reviewed in Australia on 31 October 2021

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This a captivating story and it surprised me that it is the author's debut book.

It is well written, has a great storyline, believable characters and kept me reading
even when my eyes were begging for me to stop reading and go to sleep.

You will not regret buying this book, and I don't give praise lightly.

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kazz

Stunning debut from a brilliant emerging author

Reviewed in Australia on 16 July 2021

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This is a novel so superbly crafted that it moves seamlessly between the life and death, present and past, of its two beautifully developed characters, Alice and Ruby. Their story/ies are poignant, funny, sad and engaging. At times, various tensions build to then resolve or deep-dive the reader further into its emotional landscape. A stunning debut and highly recommended.

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aeb

A beautifully crafted memorable book

Reviewed in Australia on 8 June 2021

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Poignant and it sticks with you - a crime book more like Lovely Bones than the array of usual murder stories, it puts the victim up front and centre. Feminist but it doesn't hit you over the head with it - men might find it helpful to make sense of #metoo and female fears without feeling attacked.

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K. Marshall

Simple yet nothing new

Reviewed in Australia on 6 July 2021

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I was interested to read this after many positive reviews. What surprised me early on was the incredible similarity to one of my favourite books, The Lovely Bones. I was surprised this hasn’t come up In reviews. While the story was ok, the writing and the plot techniques echoed this other great work so strongly I struggled to enjoy this.

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Monica Riordan

Beautifully written compelling story

Reviewed in Australia on 20 June 2021

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This is the kind of book you devour - you don't want to put it down. The story is beautifully interwoven between the two main female characters, who each have an important story to tell.
I finished this book a couple of weeks ago, and it has stayed with me, popping into my head at unexpected moments. The themes are so relevant to this time we live in, and explores topics that women in particular have lived with their entire lives.
Highly recommended!

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Lynda Kelly

One I'll Not Forget In A Hurry....

Reviewed in the United Kingdom on 15 September 2021

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This was SO good !! What a terrific story and something a bit different as well. It relates the tale of 2 very different women who rock up in New York on the same day, though they don't know each other. Sadly one is killed and the other finds her body......what a unique premise !! I even paid for it and I rarely do that with an author I've never read before. Totally sold it to me, along with the tremendous cover.
It had its humorous moments, which you'd not expect, along with the expected sad incidents that were upsetting, too. It was nice (though shocking) that English spellings were used when we were based in America as well.
My favourite character was Noah.....I want to know this man !! It's rare someone creates somebody so very likeable and kind and he's just my sort of person. We all need a Noah in our lives. It was mainly the latter passages featuring him that had me sobbing. One simple word that Alice uttered in a phonecall also did for me.....I was pleased I was reading alone as the tears streamed down my face.....
And for me, which is always a massive bonus, there weren't many mistakes. She did write Malborough lights when it should be Malboro Lights and ticks not tics then softy not softly and Dewy Decimal System and not Dewey. I spotted one misplaced comma and a missing question mark but that was it. There was one line she used twice that totally threw me as well. I just didn't understand it, however many times I re-read it, even trying it out loud: "It isn't always, only ever, bad"....I just don't get it !!
I have to point out here (cos' I was THAT proud of myself) that I spotted Alice's first clue she left for Ruby.....and I never normally spot anything too pertinent !! I am writing this review and playing 'Try a Little Tenderness' in the background as I complete it since it was referenced, very appropriately. I usually associate that tune with Ducky in Pretty In Pink as a rule but now I'll always remember Alice as well when I hear it....
So I highly recommend you give this one a go as it is terrific, trust me.

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Nicky Hudson

Tale in New York

Reviewed in the United Kingdom on 12 September 2021

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18 year old Alice runs away to New York, fleeing her troubled life in America’s Mid West. We know from the outset of the book that things don’t end well for her.

Thirty something Ruby has also run away to New York, leaving Melbourne and a doomed love affair

Alice and Ruby meet, and change each other in ways they could never imagine

I thought this was a great book, a lovely story with some powerful messages about the way society treats and views women

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a l penfold

Very thought provoking book

Reviewed in the United Kingdom on 6 August 2021

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When I first started reading this book I didn’t think I was going to enjoy it…..it’s very different to my usual books, but once I got into it I couldn’t put it down, as I said in the headline it’s very thought provoking, beautifully written and completely captivating. I will be reading some more of Jacqueline,s books from now on.

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willow

Stayed with me

Reviewed in the United Kingdom on 30 August 2021

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Loved this book, and have passed it on to my daughter and granddaughter as they will too! Great writing & characters and the voices of two vulnerable but strong females who have moved to New York separately but on the same day. One is in her thirties and alive, the other is a teenager who has been raped & murdered a few weeks after arriving.
The link between them is fascinating. Highly recommended.

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MFSL

Beautifully written

Reviewed in the United Kingdom on 21 August 2021

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Loved it. Felt like an homage to murder victims. Who were they, how they felt, what they thought, what dreams they had. When tragedies like these occur, we tend to focus on perpetrators and tend to overlook forget the victims.I liked that the focus relied entirely on Alice and Ruby and not on the murder itself, although of course it was central to the plot. It reminded me a bit of the Lovely Bones. Beautifully written. Would highly recommend.

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