Summary
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.…
Book Details
| ISBN-13: | 9781761067396 |
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| ISBN-10: | 1761067397 |
| Author: | Vikki Petraitis |
| Publisher: | Allen & Unwin |
| Imprint: | Allen & Unwin |
| Format: | Paperback |
| Number of Pages: | 384 |
| Release Date: | 2 August 2022 |
| Weight: | 486g |
| Dimensions: | 37mm x 155mm x 235mm |
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Critics Review
Having already collected Allen & Unwin’s in-house crime fiction prize, The Unbelieved is set to launch with a splash as Vikki Petraitis gathers her considerable storytelling experience into an impressive debut. The author’s background in true crime writing and podcasts means The Unbelieved absolutely captures the zeitgeist-it’s a pacy thriller packed with facts and statistics, and a nod to the real-life problems of our justice system when it comes to male violence. Detective Antigone Pollard is a big-city cop returned to her home town of Deception Bay to recover from a case that went awry. Almost immediately targeted by a would-be rapist in the local pub, she finds a series of connected sexual assaults in the district and uncovers corruption at every level during her search for the truth. There are many villains in Deception Bay, spanning the full spectrum of harm from insensitive jerks to active predators, but Antigone is a mighty protagonist. She’s fearless, exacting, honourable and smart, teaching a self-defence class at the local CWA and confronting bad behaviour with breathtaking regularity. The Unbelieved is a gleaming puzzle box of plot twists, conspiracy and comeuppance, and if the story’s many parts are all tidied away a little too neatly, that would be my only criticism amid heaped praise. Among so many stories featuring women’s suffering, The Unbelieved is a standout success. Anne Barnetson is a bookseller and illustrator based in Perth.
Vikki Petraitis
Vikki Petraitis’s true crime work includes the bestselling The Frankston Murders, The Phillip Island Murder, and The Vanishing of Vivienne Cameron. Vikki has made these cases into hugely successful podcast series with Casefile Presents, which have topped charts around the world and been downloaded millions of times. Her expertise lies in interviewing police and victims to create compelling narratives.
Vikki brought thirty years of true crime writing and investigating to create her first work of fiction, The Unbelieved, which won the 2023 Readers’ Choice Davitt Award and is now an acclaimed ABC and BBC TV co-production, Dustfall. Her second novel is The Stolen. Vikki is also a popular presenter, well known for her compelling true crime talks and keynote addresses.
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