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We Keep the Dead Close: A Murder at Harvard and a Half Century of Silence
Becky Cooper
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Description for We Keep the Dead Close: A Murder at Harvard and a Half Century of Silence
paperback.
SHORTLISTED FOR THE CRIME WRITERS' ASSOCIATION ALCS GOLD DAGGER FOR NON-FICTION
'Brilliant and extraordinary' Philippe Sands
'Astonishing ... Cooper is one hell of a detective' Alex Marzano-Lesnevich, author of The Fact of a Body
'Seductive ... Haunting' Ariel Levy, author of The Rules Do Not Apply
In 1969, Jane Britton, an ambitious graduate student at Harvard, was found bludgeoned to death in her apartment. A whisper network kept Jane's story alive: a rumour of an affair with a professor that ended in tragedy when Britton threatened to expose him.
Forty years later, when curious ... Read more
Product Details
Format
Paperback
Publication date
2021
Condition
New
Publisher
Cornerstone
Number of Pages
512
Place of Publication
London, United Kingdom
ISBN
9781786090553
SKU
9781786090553
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99-1
About Becky Cooper
Becky Cooper is a former New Yorker writer, assistant to David Remnick, Adam Gopnik and D.T. Max, producer for the New Yorker Radio Hour. Currently, she is artist-in-residence at Harvard University, as well as Senior Fellow at Brandeis’s Schuster Institute for Investigative Reporting. Her undergraduate thesis, a literary biography of David Foster Wallace, won Harvard’s Hoopes Prize, the highest undergraduate ... Read more
Reviews for We Keep the Dead Close: A Murder at Harvard and a Half Century of Silence
A brilliant and extraordinary book.
Philippe Sands Exhilarating ... Becky Cooper masterfully uncovers the story of Harvard undergrad Jane Britton
Vogue
Exhilarating and seductive ... Haunting, fascinating, and surprising. Cooper will keep you riveted. Ambitious ... A highly sophisticated investigation of a cold case mixed with elements of memoir and trendy cultural criticism.
Spectator
This ... Read more
Philippe Sands Exhilarating ... Becky Cooper masterfully uncovers the story of Harvard undergrad Jane Britton
Vogue
Exhilarating and seductive ... Haunting, fascinating, and surprising. Cooper will keep you riveted. Ambitious ... A highly sophisticated investigation of a cold case mixed with elements of memoir and trendy cultural criticism.
Spectator
This ... Read more