Review

Review: Before You Knew My Name forces us to look at how the media treats female victims

By Frank O'Shea
July 31 2021 - 12:00am
  • Before You Knew My Name, by Jacqueline Bublitz. Allen & Unwin, $29.99.

This is a murder mystery with a difference, told from beginning to end in the first-person voice of the victim. She is 19-year-old Alice, recently moved from small-town Wisconsin to New York city. We are told in the first 100 or so pages that she is about to be killed; as an unknown in New York, she becomes Jane Doe or Riverside Jane until the final third of the story.