The Thick Blue Line Ii

Jayne Gooding's harrowing, painful, empathetic and remarkable fictional sequel continues into the 1980s and 90s. A time of rave culture, football hooligans, hard drugs and the AIDS epidemic. Lucy Penfold, now a Police Sergeant, transfers from Devon to Sussex following the breakdown of her unexpected, vibrant, delightful yet intense relationship with Pippa. Can Lucy deal with the deeply rooted sexism and overcome the belief, by some of her Senior Officers, that female officers were there to simply make up the numbers? Will Lucy survive her battle to do the right thing and break the unwritten code amongst police officers while discovering that Pippa, now bitter and resentful, is in Sussex and plotting against her?

Jayne Gooding's conclusion of the fictional Thick Blue Line Trilogy continues with Sergeant Lucy Penfold into the 1990s. It is a period of political idealism, freedom for Nelson Mandela and the fall of the Berlin Wall. However, just below the surface lies an underbelly of increasingly violent crimes, major credit card fraud and razor slashing hooligans. Lucy continues to battle with her conscience and strives to do the right thing, both in her professional and personal life, but nothing can prepare her for the devastation that is about to occur...

The investigation into the murder of Officer David C. Douglass, member of the Lower Township Police Department, New Jersey. The investigative leads of this case were utilized by NYPD BLUE in one of the segments and nationally televised.

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