Every Contact Leaves A Trace

Intriguing

Woman & Home

A compelling mystery... I highly recommend it to anyone looking for an intelligent page turner

Farm Lane Books

Elegant and eerie

Marie Claire

A powerful meditation on grief, love and the nature of uncertainty

Sunday Times

A dark clever campus novel that draws the reader into a skilfully woven web of half-told stories... Crafted and elegantly written

Metro

Dymott’s capacity to conjure striking imagery is exceptional. This is more than a murder mystery. It’s an examination of the subjectivity of accounts of truth. It’s a desperately moving love story about a lonely man who finds salvation in another only to have his idyll destroyed. It's a tale of revenge, served cold and deadly

Independent

An exquisite, creepy and unexpectedly sexy murder mystery...with the tension of a Nicci French thriller, the intellectual fizz of Donna Tatt’s The Secret History and the very best of Maggie O’Farrell’s unnerving readability, Dymott is a classy storyteller... Read this novel now before everyone else starts talking about it

Elle

Elanor Dymott's arresting debut...combines the pleasures of a thriller with an elegiac meditation on the trials of youth

The Lady

In addition to creating a cleverly calibrated and creepy murder mystery, Dymott has also fashioned a neatly tailored exploration of the desperate psychology of loss... This is a cunning, sharp first novel that revels in keeping one in the dark

Independent on Sunday

Wholly absorbing

Evening Standard

Wonderfully unique

The Times

A startlingly original blend of mystery, love story and emotional journey...not be missed

Stylist

It’s rare to feel so completely inside someone’s head

Psychologies

This is a love story, told in reverse, a haunting tale of youth and lost love, and a poetical thriller.A powerful debut and a distinctive voice

Tom Hollander

Elanor Dymott’s gorgeous debut novel is a murder mystery that’s also a brilliant meditation on love and memory and loss. Like the Robert Browning poems her characters read at Oxford, the book is spooky, lovesick, dark, and lush, its narrator circling obsessively back on the death at its heart

Maile Meloy

An irresistible blast of an opening which never disappoints in a journey into a complex knot of intense and ultimately destructive relationships from which the murder that is the dark core ofThis excellent debut novel distills

Jon Snow

A beautiful, lucid nightmare of a book. A mystery of love and murder that is elegantly written, disturbing, always compelling, and lingers long in the mind

Adam Foulds

A literary thriller wrapped up in a whodunit love story, Elanor Dymott's debut makes for compulsive reading. The complexity of the plot put me in mind of The Secret History; it deserves to reach just as wide an audience

John Boyne, author of The Boy in the Striped Pyjamas

Every Contact Leaves a Trace is beautifully paced, from the graphic event at its start through all its shifting possibilities to its strange, logical conclusion. It is a marvelous book

Bernard O’Donoghue

Erudite debut

Independent

This murder mystery...gripped me with unusual force... This novel sucks you in beautifully, and will not let you go

Evening Standard

This is a class act which unveils its secrets as tantalisingly as a courtesan

John Koski, Daily Mail Ireland

Wonderfully evocative of Oxford, this is a love story and a mystery that will keep you guessing

Good Book Guide

Part love story, part murder mystery… Dymott’s novel is ample proof of the literary flair that lurks within some lawyers

Alex Wade, The Times

One of the best books I’ve read this year

Edinburgh Evening News