"You Get Tough. You Get Even‪"‬

Drawing from traditions of the teen girl sleuth, the detective of film noir, and contemporary novels of the empowered female detective, the television series Veronica Mars uses rape as a central theme to create a new kind of girl detective--a cynical, wisecracking adolescent heroine.

   This article originally appeared in Clues: A Journal of Detection, Volume 27, Issue 1.