A kind and well-loved woman was brutally and inexplicably murdered — the pregnant wife of a respected police inspector — and her death has left Scotland Yard shocked and searching for answers. Perhaps most horrifying of all, the trigger of the weapon that killed her was apparently pulled by a stranger...a twelve-year-old boy. The anatomy of a murder, the story of a family in crisis. What Came Before He Shot Her is a powerful, emotional novel full of deep psychological insights, a novel that only the incomparable Elizabeth George could write.