Twenty Five Years

This book is a crime drama, and while a work of fiction, it has a focus on domestic violence and the impact on the law enforcement officers who respond to these calls for help. Most often, these calls end without resolution, particularly when the victims of spousal abuse refuse to follow up and file charges. Officers may respond to the same home many times, usually observing the spousal abuse becoming more severe, beginning as a violent argument and ending even years later with the murder of the spouse. Sergeant Phil Harrigan is on his twenty-fifth year of service to the Layton Police Department and is now a squad leader. Harrigan, like many of his squad members, has responded over the past twenty-five years to many domestic violence calls. Unknown to his family, friends, and colleagues, Harrigan has become emotionally disturbed and is resorting to meting out his own form of justice on the people who have harmed their spouses. The reader may find some degree of sympathy for Harrigan's solutions, but not for long.