Blue Murder?

By Joan Lock

How does a police officer come to commit the ultimate crime?

Certainly we are disturbed, yet at the same time curious when a homicide suspect is a supposed guardian of the law who has apparently abandoned all their beliefs and training. What could have motivated them? Did their professional expertise help them to plan or conceal the crime? 

Joan Lock investigates and presents us with a fascinating and sometimes macabre collection of police dramas. The young constable who planned his wife’s murder and even planted false clues to mislead his colleagues. The bizarre tale of the detective called in to investigate the murder he himself had committed. The country copper who waited in armed ambush for his sergeant and, perhaps most chilling of all, the story of the ex-policeman whose cold-blooded execution of his old buddies is unparalleled in police history.

Spanning the years from 1846 to the present day, these are just some of the extraordinary cases chronicled in Blue Murder?.