Tell Me Everything

A New York Times Book Review Editors’ Choice Part memoir and part literary true crime,Tell Me Everything is the mesmerizing story of a landmark sexual assault investigation and the female private investigator who helped crack it open. Erika Krouse has one of those faces. ΓÇ£I donΓÇÖt know why IΓÇÖm telling you thisΓÇ¥ people sayspilling confessions. In fall 2002Erika accepts a new contract job investigating lawsuits as a private investigator. The role seems perfect for herbut she quickly realizes she has no idea what sheΓÇÖs doing. Then a lawyer named Grayson assigns her to investigate a sexual assaulta college student who was attacked by football players and recruits at a party a year earlier. Erika knows she should turn the assignment down. Her own history with sexual violence makes it all too personal. But she takes the job anywayinspired by GraysonΓÇÖs conviction that he could help change things forever. And maybe she couldtoo. Over the next five yearsErika learns everything she can about P. I. techniquetracking down witnesses and investigating a culture of sexual assault and harassment ingrained in the universityΓÇÖs football program. But as the investigation grows into a national scandal and a historic civil rights case that revolutionizes Title IX lawErika finds herself increasingly consumed. When the case and her life both implode at the same timeErika must figure out how to help win the case without losing herself.