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Tell Me Everything:
The Story of a Private Investigation
Winner of the 2023 Edgar Award for Best Fact Crime,
Colorado Book Award for Creative Nonfiction, Housatonic Book Award for Nonfiction, Book of the Month Club, New York Times Editors’ Choice, People Magazine People Pick, BookPage Best Nonfiction of 2022, Kirkus Reviews Best Nonfiction of 2022, Slate 10 Best Books of 2022 (Laura Miller), Jezebel 10 Best Books of 2022
“This is literary nonfiction at a high level.”
—The New York Times Book Review
“Mesmerizing on every page.”
—The Washington Post
March 2022, Flatiron Books
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.
“The best story I’ve read in a long, long time.”
—Lacy Crawford, author of Notes on a Silencing
“Tell Me Everything is our new standard.”
—Charles D’Ambrosio, author of Loitering
“Propulsive as anything by Raymond Chandler but with twice the emotional IQ.”
—Melissa Febos, author of Girlhood
“Tell Me Everything affected me more than any memoir I’ve read in the last decade.”
—Joanna Rakoff, author of My Salinger Year
“Erika Krouse achieves a singular accomplishment of voice in her stunning memoir.”
—Michelle Bowdler, author of Is Rape a Crime?
“Gripping and moving, both excavation and investigation.”
—Caitlin Horrocks, author of Life Among the Terranauts
“Masterful…Extraordinary…it’s Krouse’s own persona, with her supernatural powers, her supersize wounds, and her spiritual speedball of courage and vulnerability, that makes this book mesmerizing on every page.”
—The Washington Post, Marion Winik
“This lyrical, jarring, propulsive memoir of Krouse’s time as a private investigator is literary nonfiction at a high level — the author manages the tricky high-wire act of balancing the story of a case with a more personal dive into her past.”
—The New York Times Book Review
✶“A stunning story of redemption and hope. Readers will be gripped.”
—Publishers Weekly starred review
✶“An exceptionally well-told, perceptive examination of a sexual abuse scandal and its personal and social relevance.”
—Kirkus starred review
✶“Readers will devour this searingly intimate tale of institutional misogyny.”
—Library Journal starred review
✶“Erika Krouse’s memorable, highly personal account of a landmark Title IX case reads like a compelling detective novel.”
—BookPage starred review
“Tell Me Everything isn’t a testimony of suffering. It’s the evidence of what Krouse has made from it: an artist, and a formidable one.”
—Laura Miller, Slate
“A triumph of literary reportage and memoir.”
—Sarah Weinman, Air Mail
Contenders
An "Outstanding Mixed-Martial-Arts-Female-Comedy-Philosophy Novel."
Finalist for the VCU Cabell First Novelist Award
Published by Rare Bird Books, ISBN-13: 978-1940207636
Street-fighter Nina Black lives by her fists in Denver, stealing wallets and taking advantage of men who try to take advantage of her. This symbiosis is upended when one of her marks, a cop and MMA comeback contender, wants his wallet—and his dignity—back.
“I couldn't stop turning these brilliant pages."
—Margot Livesey, author of The Flight of Gemma Hardy
“This book is like watching Lorrie Moore's humor in a glorious street brawl with Ernest Hemingway's bullfighters."
—Nick Arvin, author of The Reconstructionist and Articles of War
“By turns hilarious, exciting, tough as rusty nails, and blazingly heartfelt, it's a knockout on every level."
—David Wroblewski, author of The Story of Edgar Sawtelle
“Contenders may well be the best woman warrior novel ever written.”
—Baine Kerr, author of Wrongful Death
Come Up and See Me Sometime
(short story collection)
Winner of the Paterson Prize
A New York Times Notable Book
Starred Publishers Weekly and Kirkus Reviews
Translated into six languages
Published by Scribner, ISBN-13: 978-1501142727
With Mae West as an ingenious guiding spirit, Erika Krouse introduces us to thirteen young, single, geographically and emotionally nomadic women looking for self-knowledge and trouble.
“Krouse leaves us with a feeling of unbounded, exhilarating possibility.”
—The New York Times Book Review
“Krouse is the master of one-liners, pulling the tablecloth from under painful situations, while skillfully leaving the table intact.”
—Denver Rocky Mountain News
"I gobbled up this book in one sitting - it was like eating a whole chocolate cake.”—Anna Maxted, author of Running in Heels
“The compressed intensity explodes on impact.”
—Emily Wortis Leider, author of Becoming Mae West
“Erika Krouse makes an intelligent, dreamily off-kilter debut.”
—Jennifer Egan, author of the Pulitzer Prize-winning A Visit from the Goon Squad
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