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The Unbelieved
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Winner of the inaugural Allen & Unwin Crime Prize.
'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.
'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.
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Table of contents
- COVER PAGE
- PRAISE
- ABOUT THE AUTHOR
- TITLE PAGE
- COPYRIGHT PAGE
- DEDICATION
- CONTENTS
- EPIGRAPH
- PROLOGUE
- CHAPTER 1: A QUIET DRINK ON THE WAY HOME
- CHAPTER 2: WATCHING THE DETECTIVE
- CHAPTER 3: THEREāS NO PLACE LIKE HOME
- CHAPTER 4: BROKEN SLEEP, BROKEN DREAMS
- CHAPTER 5: JUSTICE IS BLIND
- CHAPTER 6: THE MURDERERāS DAUGHTER
- CHAPTER 7: THE MOOD OF THE SEA
- CHAPTER 8: YOU CAN NEVER HIDE THE SWELLING
- CHAPTER 9: A RAINBOW OF BRUISES
- CHAPTER 10: TWO DECEASED ADULTS, ONE LIVE CHILD
- CHAPTER 11: THE GIRL ON THE ROAD
- CHAPTER 12: SCHOOL CORRIDORS OF SMALL POWERS
- CHAPTER 13: THE LOST BOY
- CHAPTER 14: THE COMFORT OF A NANA
- CHAPTER 15: THE NAUGHTY BOY IN THE ATTIC
- CHAPTER 16: THE INTRUDER
- CHAPTER 17: A HALL FULL OF WOMEN WITH CAKE
- CHAPTER 18: MORE THAN ONE
- CHAPTER 19: DEAD MERV
- CHAPTER 20: SUNDAY LUNCH AND A HOMICIDE FILE
- CHAPTER 21: A NAYLE IN THE COFFIN
- CHAPTER 22: TROUBLE IN THE TEA AISLE
- CHAPTER 23: THE INSIDES OF MERV
- CHAPTER 24: THE DEVILāS CORNER
- CHAPTER 25: THE WISHING POOL
- CHAPTER 26: THE GIRL THEY DIDNāT BELIEVE
- CHAPTER 27: CHICKS CRY FOUL
- CHAPTER 28: THE WATCHING MULLIGANS
- CHAPTER 29: DIMITRIāS LEMONS
- CHAPTER 30: THE TOWN MEETING
- CHAPTER 31: THE WAFFLES BARRIER
- CHAPTER 32: THE TABLES TURN
- CHAPTER 33: THEIR PRECIOUS BOY
- CHAPTER 34: NO WINNERS
- CHAPTER 35: SEAWEED
- CHAPTER 36: THE CALL LOG
- CHAPTER 37: HER HISTORY TOO
- CHAPTER 38: THE ARREST
- CHAPTER 39: THE FALLOUT
- CHAPTER 40: THE DECEPTION BAY SPRING FAIR
- CHAPTER 41: THE CHIEF COMMISSIONERāS VISIT
- CHAPTER 42: NO SUPERHERO ENDING
- CHAPTER 43: THE āJUSTICEā SYSTEM
- EPILOGUE
- ACKNOWLEDGEMENTS
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