The Sealed File
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Last published Sat, Jan 29, 2022
Halloran Doyle, a disgraced police officer is found dead in Sherfield High's pool, in November of 1977.
After Judy's father is killed, it seems as if the tiny town of Sherfield will forget the scandal that followed Officer Halloran and his family after he was seen raping a young girl named Betty Davis three months before his wife was due to give birth. However, as the town triples in size over the next twenty years, and all trouble has been buried under such a rapid growth, retired police officers have begun turning up dead, all in a similar manner.
Judy, who has just graduated from the police academy herself, is tasked with unravelling the mystery of what happened to her father's colleagues, realise that he was not the only rogue officer in the force, and uncover a mystery that this formerly sleepy Alabama town had so desperately tried to keep hidden.
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