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Every Contact Leaves a Trace

Every Contact Leaves a Trace

by Elanor Dymott

Publisher Jonathan Cape

Genre: Crime

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About the book

'If you were to ask me to tell you about my wife, I would have to warn you at the outset that I don't know a great deal about her. Or at least, not as much as I thought I did...'

Alex is in his thirties, a solitary man who has finally found love in the form of his beautiful and vivacious wife, Rachel. When Rachel is brutally murdered one Midsummer Night by the lake in the grounds of their alma mater, Worcester College, Oxford, Alex's life as he knew it vanishes. He returns to Oxford that winter, and through the shroud of his shock and grief, begins to try to piece together the mystery surrounding his wife's death.

Playing host to Alex's winter visit is Harry, Rachel's former tutor and trusted mentor, who turns out to have been involved in some way in almost every significant development of their relationship throughout their undergraduate years. In his exploration of Rachel's history, Alex also turns to Evie, Rachel's self-centred and difficult godmother, whose jealousy of her charge has waxed and waned over the years. And then there are her university friends, Anthony and Cissy, who shared with Rachel her love of Browning and a taste for the illicit.

As Alex delves deep into the past to uncover shocking secrets and constantly shifting versions of the truth, it is with these virtual strangers as his guides that he begins to confront the terrifying reality that neither his life, nor his love, are the things he thought them to be.

About the Author

Elanor Dymott

Elanor Dymott’s debut novel, Every Contact Leaves A Trace, was longlisted for the 2013 Authors' Club Best First Novel Award. pocket-paradise was published by Jonathan Cape in 2016. Her short fiction has been published in literary magazines, and anthologised by Penguin (USA) in XO, Orpheus, and she also writes for newspapers and magazines.


Elanor was born in Zambia, and grew up in the USA, South East Asia and England. Before becoming a writer, she worked as a commercial lawyer in the City of London and in South East Asia. She now lives in London, where for ten years she was a reporter for the Incorporated Council of Law Reporting for England and Wales and wrote the Times Law Reports. As well as giving writing classes and seminars at literary festivals, schools and colleges (including the Oxford University Kellogg College Centre for Creative Writing), she mentors first-time novelists one-to-one.


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