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Petraitis, Vikki,
author.
The unbelieved /
Vikki Petraitis.
Crows Nest, NSW :
Allen & Unwin,
2022.
373 pages ;
24 cm.
"Every town has its secrets. Don't ask. Don't tell"--Cover.
When Senior Detective Antigone Pollard moves to the coastal town of Deception Bay, she is still in shock and grief. Back in Melbourne, one of her cases had gone catastrophically wrong, and to escape the guilt and the haunting memories, she'd requested a transfer to the quiet town she'd grown up in. But there are some things you can't run from. A month into her new life, she is targeted by a would-be rapist at the pub, and realises why there have been no convictions following a spate of similar sexual attacks in the surrounding district. The male witnesses in the pub back her attacker and even her boss doesn't believe her. Hers is the first reported case in Deception Bay, but soon there are more. As Antigone searches for answers, she encounters a wall of silence in the town built of secrets and denial and fear. The women of Deception Bay are scared and the law is not on their side. The nightmare has followed her home.
Winner 2023 Sisters in Crime Davitt Award for Readers' Choice.
Women detectives
Fiction.
Homecoming
Fiction.
Women
Crimes against
Fiction.
Rapists
Fiction.
Fear
Fiction.
Small cities
Fiction.
Australian fiction.
206
Secrecy
Fiction.
20804
Small cities
Australia
Fiction.
Social isolation
Fiction.
21406
Rape
Fiction.
Rape victims
Fiction.
Deception Bay (Qld.)
Fiction.
Melbourne (Vic.)
Fiction.
AUS crime / mystery fiction (Victoria)
Australian fiction
32
Thrillers (Fiction).
lcgft
Detective and mystery fiction.
lcgft
18104
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ATH
2022-08-23
Dymocks
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PET
064368
2023-09-05 00:00:00
2023-08-24
2022-08-23
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