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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 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.

3 chapters
what a tough but moving story
(view spoiler)[ I can't imagine being Erika and having to witness all this pain and disbelief
but also the rage and power dynamic of the players. Just yuck.

I liked her description of everyone talking to her and it being her face. I found her insight into herself as being a mimic really fascinating too

I love how she stumbled in to this job and I'm curious to see how this wraps up and if she continued in this field. This has me equally disgusted and wanting to know how it all turned out (hide spoiler)]

6 chapters

(view spoiler)[ wow, all those suspended sentences, all those crimes unpunished. no wonder the kids showing around the recruits didn't see anything wrong with what they were doing. They kept getting away with it or told it was what was expected so they were okay to expect it

the third party consent was so frustrating I wanted to throw my book (hide spoiler)]

9 chapters

(view spoiler)[ so the case is shaping up. the girls are coming together to fight back and society is expressing opinions

I hate that they are stealing diaries and publishing them
just gross

and I can't believe how big and how ugly a picture this paints. They just think they run the world and these girls owe it to them. just gross (hide spoiler)]

Trisha wrote: "3 chapters
what a tough but moving story
I can't imagine being Erika and having to witness all this pain and disbelief
but also the rage and power dynamic of the players. Just yuck.

I liked her ..."

I agree!

and I'm done!

this was such a moving story! I wasn't sure what I was getting in to when I got this one but it was so much more than I thought

(view spoiler)[ WOW! now I'm going to go look up the case. the appellate judge information sounds fascinating - I'd love to hear it if the recording is still out there

and I'm so disgusted with her family. what a horrible horrible mom. I'm so glad she learned to let them go and move on.

I loved JD and I was glad they stayed together (hide spoiler)]