For years, Sgt Wayne Jenkins and his elite team of plain-clothed officers - the Gun Trace Task Force - had been the city's lauded heroes, working to get drugs and guns off the streets.
What does it mean to write about a killer? From an award-winning author comes a tale of a notorious double-murder, a political scandal, and a writer who found himself entangled in this strange, true story.
Features some of the most notorious and often baffling cases in Leicestershire's history. These are the stories of those involved in Foul Deeds and Suspicious Deaths, at a time when murder was a capital offence and guilt or innocence was proven without the benefit of modern forensic technique or DNA profiling.
It's me.' These women were left confused and traumatised, unable to move on and searching for answers.
Through forensic detective work, they eventually confirmed they had all been in serious relationships with fictional men who were actually married police officers and whose deceit was being funded by the tax payer.
A brutal murder in a small fishing community raises urgent questions of right and wrong, and even the nature of good and evil, in this masterfully told true story.