For the Love of Murder: A Miscarriage of Justice

For the Love of Murder: A Miscarriage of Justice
by Alan C. Bruce

Edinburgh, 1955. Two dead girls. One haunted detective. And a justice system with blood on its hands.

Detective Tom Richards thought he’d put a killer behind bars — and into the hangman’s noose. A decade ago, his testimony helped convict a man for a string of brutal murders. The case was closed. Justice served.

But now, two more girls are found dead — killed in strikingly similar circumstances. As the old investigation begins to crumble under fresh evidence, Richards is forced to reckon with an unthinkable truth: the man he helped condemn may have died innocent… and the real murderer is still at large.

With his career in freefall, the press circling, and his own family life fracturing, Richards spirals into guilt, doubt, and obsession. When a figure from his past reappears, old wounds reopen — and long-buried secrets threaten to destroy what little remains of his sanity.

For the Love of Murder: A Miscarriage of Justice is a brooding, character-driven crime thriller about the fallibility of memory, the cost of conscience, and the dark corners of a justice system too eager to move on. Ideal for fans of Ian Rankin, Denise Mina, and the morally complex noir of the golden age.