num_pages: 288
description: 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 dont know why Im 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 shes 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 Graysons 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 universitys 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.
language: English
title: Tell Me Everything: The Story of a Private Investigation
publisher: Flatiron Books