We Keep the Dead Close by Becky Cooper (Book #19)

Title: We Keep the Dead Close: A Murder at Harvard and a Half Century of Silence

Author: Becky Cooper

Dates Read: Feb. 11 - Feb. 19

Format: Audiobook

Rating: ★★★★★

Description: 1969: the height of counterculture and the year universities would seek to curb the unruly spectacle of student protest; the winter that Harvard University would begin the tumultuous process of merging with Radcliffe, its all-female sister school; and the year that Jane Britton, an ambitious 23-year-old graduate student in Harvard's Anthropology Department and daughter of Radcliffe Vice President J. Boyd Britton, would be found bludgeoned to death in her Cambridge, Massachusetts apartment.

Review: This was such an amazing book. Part true crime, part investigation into the misogynistic and shady history of Harvard University - particularly the Harvard Anthropology department. Cooper does an amazing job breathing life into the nearly 60-year-old cold case of the murder of Jane Britton. Her questions and investigative work push the police to dig back into the case which, by the end of the book, is solved by police standards and the case is closed. I just cannot get over how great this book was. I'm half inclined to pick it up and read it again!