James and Alesha are on the ropes!

Matt and Ronnie have a particularly grisly case on their hands when a pregnant junior doctor is found beaten to death in the car park of the hospital where she works. Unable to provide a solid alibi for where he was at the time of the killing, the victim’s boyfriend, Joe Nash, quickly becomes the prime suspect. What’s more, mobile-phone records put him in the right place at approximately the right time. When his therapist finally comes forward to provide him with an alibi for the evening in question, the detectives begin to suspect that the pair are having an affair, which suggests that the murder was a crime of passion. However, once Nash is arrested, a more complex and harrowing picture begins to emerge, pointing to a conspiracy involving senior-level government officials. Determined to get to the bottom of this highly sensitive case before another life is destroyed, James and Alesha defy the instruction of the Director of Public Prosecutions to delve further, risking their careers in the process.

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Patrick McLennan is a London-based journalist and documentary maker who has worked as a writer, sub-editor, digital editor and TV producer in the UK and New Zealand. His CV includes spells as a news producer at the BBC and TVNZ, as well as web editor for Time Inc UK. He has produced TV news and entertainment features on personalities as diverse as Nick Cave, Tom Hardy, Clive James, Jodie Marsh and Kevin Bacon and he co-produced and directed The Ponds, which has screened in UK cinemas, BBC Four and is currently available on Netflix.

An entertainment writer with a diverse taste in TV and film, he lists Seinfeld, The Sopranos, The Chase, The Thick of It and Detectorists among his favourite shows, but steers well clear of most sci-fi.