Tell me Everything : : the Story of a Private Investigation

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Call Number: Adult Book / Nonfiction / Biography / General / Krouse, Erika, 363.259 Kr
On Shelf At: Malletts Creek Branch, Pittsfield Branch, Westgate Branch

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"Part memoir and part literary true crime, Tell Me Everything is the mesmerizing story of a landmark sexual assault investigation and the female private investigator who helped crack it open. Erika Krouse has one of those faces. "I don't know why I'm telling you this," people say, spilling confessions. In fall 2002, Erika accepts a new contract job investigating lawsuits as a private investigator. The role seems perfect for her, but she quickly realizes she has no idea what she's doing. Then a lawyer named Grayson assigns her to investigate a sexual assault, a college student who was attacked by football players and recruits at a party a year earlier. Erika knows she should turn the assignment down. Her own history with sexual violence makes it all too personal. But she takes the job anyway, inspired by Grayson's conviction that he could help change things forever. And maybe she could, too. Over the next five years, Erika learns everything she can about P. I. technique, tracking down witnesses and investigating a culture of sexual assault and harassment ingrained in the university's football program. But as the investigation grows into a national scandal and a historic civil rights case, Erika finds herself increasingly consumed. When the case and her life both implode at the same time, Erika must figure out how to help win the case without losing herself"-- Provided by publisher.

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more than a memoir submitted by johnbiancke on July 5, 2022, 8:06am This is more than a memoir. It s the tip of a nasty iceberg in the sporting world.

Interesting submitted by karenkay on August 5, 2022, 7:54pm I thought this book was an interesting look into how a lawyer builds a case.

Gripping submitted by tuttlium on July 20, 2023, 8:07am This book is nonfiction but reads like a thriller. I started reading it at 10 pm one night and stayed up all night to finish it. Absolutely gripping.

Brutal and moving submitted by Steve Amick on August 27, 2023, 12:08am Probably the best of the several recent books out with this very same title. Erica Krause is a fantastic short story writer (New Yorker magazine, etc) who turned to private investigation because of a football sex scandal, but more because of personal demons. She blends all three of these thigns: her personal abilities to pull stories from people, her difficult personal background, and even works in her gorgeous sense of language, especially in some of the latter chapters. She just won the Edgar for this. I didn't even realize they had a nonfiction/true crime portion of the award, but she got it.