It takes the average reader 5 hours and 56 minutes to read The Unbelieved by Vikki Petraitis
Assuming a reading speed of 250 words per minute. Learn more
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.
The Unbelieved by Vikki Petraitis is 347 pages long, and a total of 89,179 words.
This makes it 117% the length of the average book. It also has 109% more words than the average book.
The average oral reading speed is 183 words per minute. This means it takes 8 hours and 7 minutes to read The Unbelieved aloud.
The Unbelieved is suitable for students ages 12 and up.
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