Completely riveting.  I couldn’t listen to this audiobook fast enough.   

 

Krouse has always been used to people telling her everything.  She has a face that encourages it somehow. But the more she got immersed in other people’s stories, particularly the landmark case she was assigned to as a new PI, she realized that her own story still burned hot within.  

 

In a blend of the personal and professional, Krouse creates a book that is part memoir and part true crime expose.  She lays bare her own struggles to overcome sexual assault while also recounting her PI work investigating a college football program and the numerous sexual assaults alleged against its players.     

 

I found both aspects of this novel to be equally enthralling and heart wrenching in a way they might not have been if told singularly.  Krouse’s dedication and passion for the job combined with her own trauma and healing sets this novel apart from others.  

 

In a story like this, I typically prefer the author as narrator. But Gabra Zackman’s delivery felt every bit as intimate and personal.  

Thank you to Erika Krouse, Flat Iron Books, and MacMillan Audio for this #gifted copy.