Erika Krouse: The Secret to Spotting Dark Secrets

04/23/23 • 21 min

ERIKA KROUSE is the author of "Tell Me Everything". She talks about becoming a private investigator in a college sports scandal and then discovering she cannot avoid investigating a dark secret of her own.

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