Description:
Murder at the Met is about misogyny in the British police. It opens with the killing of a newly appointed police commissioner at a training course in Great Windsor Lodge. The forty-two detectives present are all suspects. Then a young woman in Cambridge dies from an overdose of a date rape drug. The two investigations come together in an escalating spiral of encounters that pit detectives against detectives and ministers against ministers. A series of escalating encounters involving unexpected by credible events culminate in the home secretary's office encouraged suicide.
Brief description:
Richard Ned Lebow is Professor Emeritus at Dartmouth College and KIng's College London and Honorary Fellow of Pembroke College of the University of Cambridge. He is the author of some fifty scholarly books in the fields of international relations, comparative politics, political theory, political psychology, history, classics, and philosophy of science. His first venture into fiction is Rough Waters, a book of short stories. He is now writing crime novels featuring Inspector Rudi Khan of the Cambridge Constabulary. Lebow is married and father of three children and two grandchildren. He and his wife live in Cortona, Tuscany and Etna, New Hampshire.