Reviews tagging 'Sexual assault'

The Ghosts That Haunt Me: Memories of a Homicide Detective by Steve Ryan

2 reviews

daniellekat's review

challenging dark

1.0

I am so angry about this book I don't know that I am going to be able to write clearly. There are 6 cases in this book and EVERY one of them is about the murder of a woman (one case also includes 2 male victims, but was still centred around the female victim; it was a jealous lover situation). 4 of the cases were about girls under 18 years old.  It took the author until page 160 to name a single woman expert (police, crown attorney, medical professional, paramedic, etc.) by name, however he had no problem listing every male police partner, medical professional, etc that entered the story. This might have been saved if the author had an ounce of self awareness, but after the violence against women and misogyny, the general "police are heroes and are all great at their jobs" tone was too much. Finally the inclusion of a author's note just acknowledging literally anything (violence against women and girls, permission of used names, why these cases stuck with him...did he notice that they were all women and half were children?) would have helped BIG TIME. 

* Also I know police work is an intense and necessary field and I don't want to discredit that work, but have some awareness.

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Torture, Violence, Blood, Child abuse, Domestic abuse, Child death, Emotional abuse, Injury/Injury detail, Misogyny, Murder, Physical abuse, and Suicide

Moderate: Self harm, Medical content, Toxic relationship, and Pedophilia

Minor: Sexual assault

theinstabookworm's review

challenging dark informative reflective sad tense fast-paced

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Content Warnings

Moderate: Sexual assault, Murder, Domestic abuse, and Self harm