TY  - BOOK
AU  - Petraitis,Vikki
TI  - The unbelieved
SN  - 9781761067396
U1  - A823.4 23/eng/20220802
PY  - 2022///
CY  - Crows Nest, NSW
PB  - Allen & Unwin
KW  - Women detectives
KW  - Fiction
KW  - Homecoming
KW  - Women
KW  - Crimes against
KW  - Rapists
KW  - Fear
KW  - Small cities
KW  - Australian fiction
KW  - Secrecy
KW  - Australia
KW  - Social isolation
KW  - Rape
KW  - Rape victims
KW  - Deception Bay (Qld.)
KW  - Melbourne (Vic.)
KW  - AUS crime / mystery fiction (Victoria)
KW  - Thrillers (Fiction)
KW  - lcgft
KW  - Detective and mystery fiction
N1  - "Every town has its secrets. Don't ask. Don't tell"--Cover
N2  - 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
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