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Tell Me Everything: The Story of a Private Investigation

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  • Mar 15, 2022
  • #Memoir #Crime
Erika Krouse
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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 private investigator who helped crack it ope... Show More

Part memoir and part literary true crime, Tell Me Everything is the mesmerizing story of a landmark sexual assault investigation and the 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, Krouse 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. Krouse 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, Krouse 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, she finds herself increasingly consumed. When the case and her life both implode at the same time, she must figure out how to help win the case without losing herself.

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Number of Pages: 288

ISBN: 1250240301

ISBN-13: 9781250240309

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Nora Biette-Timmons @biettetimmons · Dec 16, 2022
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In this literary memoir, Krouse recounts being a down-on-her-luck novelist who got into P.I. work as a result of her uncanny knack for getting strangers to open up. Her new gig leads her to investigate a gang rape at a local Colorado college involving members of the football team and recruits. The procedural that follows is both narratively straightforward and complex with introspection as Krouse comes to terms with her own abuse through her P.I. work and writing. With Tell Me Everything, Krouse figures out a whole new way to do what good writing does: She makes the personal universal and vice versa. –Rich Juzwiak
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