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|title=Every Contact Leaves a Trace

|author=Elanor Dymott

|publisher=Jonathan Cape

|date=April 2012

|summary=Part love story, part murder mystery, part campus novel - this may appeal to fans of Donna Tartt. More literary mystery than fast paced crime but pleasingly dark and twisted.

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We learn from the prologue that the narrator, Oxford educated lawyer, Alex's wife has been murdered. We also know that Alex knew little of his wife, Rachel's past, particularly of the time that they spent together at Worcester College. This is critical in understanding who may have killed her, and why. What follows is Alex learning about this hidden past. ''Every Contact Leaves a Trace'' is partly a thriller and partly a whodunnit although the structure adopted by Elanor Dymott is somewhat unusual.

For more debut fiction set in the education system, this time from across the pond, the much hyped [[The Art of Fielding by Chad Harbach]] may well appeal.

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