Denise Woods, a female police officer, is the protagonist of Life of Crime. The story follows Denise as she rises through the ranks of the Metropolitan Police Service over the course of three decades (starting with the Brixton Riots of 1985). Female officers must work to be accepted in a profession dominated by men in where sexism is rampant. Denise takes DS Ray Deans to a murder scene one September morning, when she discovers the battered, beaten, and strangled body of a teenage girl named Anna. Denise is determined to bring Anna's murderer to justice because she has met the adolescent before. What the facts surrounding Anna's murder are not as they initially appear, Denise disregards the explicit instructions and advise of her superior officers and pursues her own lines of inquiry. As the investigation continues, Denise's passion for the case causes her to clash with DCI Ferguson, her superior officer.
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Denise Woods, a female police officer, is the protagonist of Life of Crime. The story follows Denise as she rises through the ranks of the Metropolitan Police Service over the course of three decades (starting with the Brixton Riots of 1985). Female officers must work to be accepted in a profession dominated by men in where sexism is rampant. Denise takes DS Ray Deans to a murder scene one September morning, when she discovers the battered, beaten, and strangled body of a teenage girl named Anna. Denise is determined to bring Anna's murderer to justice because she has met the adolescent before. What the facts surrounding Anna's murder are not as they initially appear, Denise disregards the explicit instructions and advise of her superior officers and pursues her own lines of inquiry. As the investigation continues, Denise's passion for the case causes her to clash with DCI Ferguson, her superior officer.
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