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*Starred Review* This is a powerful example of how an investigative reporter can right injustices and expose the need for further reform. Lueders, news editor for Isthmus, an alternative newspaper in Madison, Wisconsin, and president of the Wisconsin Freedom of Information Council, has expanded his original investigative series for his paper into a compelling book, as suspenseful and harrowing as the best mystery novels. In September 1997, a visually impaired woman named Patty, living in Madison, was raped in her home, her teen daughter asleep in her own room just down the hallway. Patty has suffered a double nightmare: the sexual assault itself and her revictimization at the hands of police, particularly through the bias of one police detective, who suspected (and later charged) Patty with falsely reporting a crime. Lueders lays bare the many missteps of the case, starting with the detective's bias and continuing through the unwillingness of the justice system to support one woman's word against the police, even after DNA evidence was found. Patty herself emerges as a remarkable heroine: legally blind, scraping by on a paltry income, she keeps fighting to be heard. This works as investigative journalism, heroic tale, and exquisitely paced mystery.