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''So you believed the alleged rapists over the alleged victim?' Jane's voice took 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 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.
'Chilling, timely and gripping, The Unbelieved takes us behind the headlines to a small-town world that is all too real - and introduces us to a brilliant new voice in crime fiction.' (Publication summary)
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- Large print.
- Dyslexic edition.
Works about this Work
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Vikki Petraitis : The Unbelieved
2022
single work
review
— Appears in: The Newtown Review of Books , August 2022;
— Review of The Unbelieved 2022 single work novel 'After more than 25 years of writing true crime, Vikki Petraitis turns her hand to fiction.'
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Vikki Petraitis : The Unbelieved
2022
single work
review
— Appears in: The Newtown Review of Books , August 2022;
— Review of The Unbelieved 2022 single work novel 'After more than 25 years of writing true crime, Vikki Petraitis turns her hand to fiction.'
Awards
- 2023 winner Davitt Award — Readers' Choice Award
- 2023 shortlisted Davitt Award — Best Debut
- 2023 shortlisted Davitt Award — Best Adult Crime Novel
- 2022 inaugural winner The A&U Crime Fiction Prize
- Deception Bay, Morayfield - Narangba - Deception Bay area, Caboolture area, Brisbane Outer North, Brisbane, Queensland,
- Melbourne, Victoria,