The Unbelieved - Softcover

The Unbelieved

Paperback. Zustand: Very Good. 384 pages. So you believed the alleged rapists over the alleged victim?' Jane's voice to ok on an indignant pitch. 'Girls lie sometimes.' I nodded. 'And rapists lie all the time.' 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 ca ses had gone catastrophically wrong, and to escape the guilt and the haunting me mories, she'd requested a transfer to the quiet town she'd grown up in. But the re are some things you can't run from. A month into her new life, she is targete d by a would-be rapist at the pub, and realises why there have been no convictio ns 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 he r. Hers is the first reported case in Deception Bay, but soon there are more. A s Antigone searches for answers, she encounters a wall of silence in the town bu ilt of secrets and denial and fear. The women of Deception Bay are scared and th e law is not on their side. The nightmare has followed her home. Chilling, time ly and gripping, The Unbelieved takes us behind the headlines to a small-town wo rld that is all too real - and introduces us to a brilliant new voice in crime f iction. Artikel-Nr. 3462c

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