A cold case waits to be solved ...and a killer waits in the wings. Amy was seven years old when her father was arrested for murder. His subsequent trial and conviction scarred her childhood and cast a shadow over her life until, twenty-two years later, new evidence suggests he was innocent and Amy sets out to clear his name. But Amy is not the only person troubled by the past. DC Gary Goodhew is haunted by the day his grandfather was murdered and is still searching for answers, determined to uncover the truth about his grandfather's death and find his killer. But, right now, someone is about to die. Someone who has secrets and who once kept quiet but is now living on borrowed time. Someone who will be murdered because disturbing the past has woken a killer.

A superb writer
A superb writer
Bruce is doing for Cambridge what Colin Dexter did for Oxford with Inspector Morse * Daily Mail *
Bruce is doing for Cambridge what Colin Dexter did for Oxford with Inspector Morse * Daily Mail *
Menacing and insidious
Menacing and insidious
Alison Bruce has created an unusual and interesting main character * The Times *
Alison Bruce has created an unusual and interesting main character * The Times *
The tension is ratcheted up to the bitter end!
The tension is ratcheted up to the bitter end!
An exciting debut from a very promising new talent
An exciting debut from a very promising new talent

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.