FICTION

The Last Good Girl

288p. (Anna Curtis: Bk. 5). ebook available. Touchstone. May 2016. Tr $25. ISBN 9781476761114.
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When Emily Shapiro attends her first frat party as a college freshman, she is raped. She believes fraternity president Dylan put something in her drink, but no one believes her. He is the son of Michigan's lieutenant governor and a campus do-gooder, while she is the university president's daughter. Months later, an argument between Emily and Dylan is caught on security footage and Emily goes missing. Luckily, assistant U.S. attorney Anna Curtis is visiting her hometown and agrees to prosecute the case against Dylan as part of a Department of Justice task force investigating sexual assaults on college campuses. With the help of FBI Agent Samantha Randazzo and the rest of her team, Anna fights small-town corruption, college donor privilege, and campus sexism to find justice for the young women who have been hurt by the fraternity known on campus as the "rape factory." While this book is the fifth in the series, it can also be read as a stand-alone. Teens will identify with Emily—she has such high hopes for her freshman year at a school she's always loved. Teens will vilify Dylan, too, and they'll root for Anna to take him and the fraternity down.
VERDICT Teen fans of Jodi Picoult's novels and Jon Krakauer's Missoula will speed through this riveting tale about campus rape.

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