The Law Killers: True Crime from Dundee

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In this updated edition of The Law Killers, journalist Alexander McGregor turns a measured eye on some of the most disturbing crimes in recent history. Murder, he suggests, is never singular. It takes many forms, shaped by circumstance, character and silence, and its persistence forces uncomfortable questions about the societies in which it occurs.

Moving through a series of cases, McGregor traces patterns of violence that resist easy explanation. A body found in woodland raises doubts that linger for decades. A schoolboy’s early crimes cast a long and troubling shadow. Elsewhere, killings cross borders, unfold within families, or hide behind the appearance of domestic order. Each case is approached with attention to detail rather than spectacle, and with a steady awareness of the lives altered or ended.

This is true crime written with restraint, concerned less with shock than with understanding, and with what is revealed when the familiar surfaces of everyday life are carefully peeled away.