What July Knew

Emily Koch is an award-winning journalist and author of two novels, If I Die Before I Wake and Keep Him Close. Her books have been shortlisted for the Crime Writers'' Association Ian Fleming Steel Dagger award, won France''s Prix du Bureau des Lecteurs Folio Policier, longlisted for the Authors'' Club Best First Novel Award, and been selected as a Waterstones Thriller of the Month. Waterstones said her second novel ''cements Koch''s place as one of the most exciting new crime writers of our day.'' She lives in Bristol.>

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Emily Koch is an award-winning journalist and author of two novels, If I Die Before I Wake and Keep Him Close. Her books **have been shortlisted for the Crime Writers' Association Ian Fleming Steel Dagger award, won France's Prix du Bureau des Lecteurs Folio Policier, longlisted for the Authors' Club Best First Novel Award, and been selected as a Waterstones Thriller of the Month. Waterstones said her second novel 'cements Koch's place as one of the most exciting new crime writers of our day.' She lives in Bristol.

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A moving mystery about family secrets, grief and growing up.

July knows 18 things about her mother. But not the truth.

Summer, 1995. On her tenth birthday, July's teacher sets the class a project to find out about a relation they don't know. It's easy for July to choose her subject. She doesn't remember her mother, who died when she was small, and her father refuses to talk about her. Ever. The only memories she has of her are flashbacks from the accident that claimed her mother's life.

But then she receives the note: 'She didn't die in a car accident.'

Determined to discover what really happened, July begins to investigate, cycling around the street where her family used to live and questioning the neighbours. When she is caught snooping round a crumbling house at the end of the road, she learns that the man living there was the last person to see July's mother alive.

In his version of the story, he is a hero. In everyone else's, he is anything but...

A compelling and moving mystery about family, community and the secrets people keep to protect those they love. Perfect for fans of Joanna Cannon, Janice Hallett and Elizabeth is Missing.

Praise for Emily Koch:

'Really well-written, deeply moving and psychologically affecting... Highly recommended' Alex Michaelides, author of The Silent Patient

'A debut to be reckoned with' Guardian

'Packs a real emotional punch' Cara Hunter, author of Close to Home