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 undergrad Becky Cooper first heard the story she felt
compelled to find out more. We Keep the Dead Close is an account of her complex and fascinating
investigation spanning a decade.
