A literary true-crime book about the 1969 case involving Jane Britton, an ambitious 23-year-old graduate student in Harvard's Archaeology Department, who was found bludgeoned to death in her Harvard University apartment.
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' Alexandria 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 23-year-old graduate archaeology student at Harvard, was found bludgeoned to death in her apartment. For forty years, a whisper network has kept Jane's story alive and in 2009, as a curious undergrad at Harvard, Becky Cooper first heard the whispers of this story. The first telling, the body was nameless- a student had had an affair with her professor, who had murdered her in the Peabody Museum of Archaeology and Ethnology because she'd threatened to talk about the affair. Though the rumours proves false, the story that actually unfolds is even more complex and one that has compelled Cooper to investigate for almost a decade.
