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Crime & Justice · inspired by real events

The Names We Could Not Give

Alice Bell is two hours late. A body has been found in the Green River. As fictional detective Mara Ellison waits by a family's silent telephone, she makes a promise she will have to learn how to keep.

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Genre
Crime & Justice
Audience
Adult readers
Chapters
15
Fiction status
inspired by real events
Editorial responsibility
My Life Story Editorial

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Secrets, Searches and Discoveries

Chapters

  1. 01Stay Until the Telephone Rings
  2. 02A Question Asked Twice
  3. 03The Small Map
  4. 04Beyond the Edge
  5. 05Ten More Chairs
  6. 06What Can Be Promised
  7. 07The Other Key
  8. 08Ordinary Weather
  9. 09Before There Is News
  10. 10What the Science Changed
  11. 11Four Is Not Everyone
  12. 12Seven
  13. 13The Price of Answers
  14. 14Forty-Eight
  15. 15A Call Kept

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