Twisted Avenues of Crime

As Commissioner Harper blissfully enjoyed the thought of his cream bun from his favourite shop with a hot cup of tea back in his office, he came upon a group of people looking up at a man on the roof of the high-rise across the street. It appeared to be a young man on the parapet of the building.

Suddenly, the young man jerked around and fell, hitting the bitumen seconds later while the crowd responded in horror. Harper told the local constable to keep the onlookers back while he called for assistance. Then since it was considered a suicide, he went off to his office and let the local police deal with it.

Yet something about the young man’s actions haunted him. Nevertheless, he tried to put it in the back of his mind and focused on his current cases. But then events take a turn and other recent suicides come to Commissioner Harper’s attention. Consequently, he turn’s his team’s attention to the question, “how do a number of apparent suicides equate to murder on a grand scale?” He couldn’t fathom how it was murder but there was something about the suicides including the number in recent months, that wasn’t adding up.

Initial research was suggesting these people came from different walks of life and had different careers, “so what was the link between them if there is an elaborate murder scheme?” He thought. One link found they were all business people in some form or another.

Hence, the business community was beginning to be concerned with the deaths of so many business people. Assigned to figure out the answers to these questions, DCI Radey and her team find the suicide victims worked in small businesses to large corporations. Their research also began to uncover investor violations in the stock market, but it wasn’t initially clear how these violations were connected to the so called “suicides.” What was most disturbing though was that as her team developed profiles of the victims, it became apparent that their behaviour would not have lead anyone to expect they were contemplating suicide.

“So why did they? Or rather, who made them commit suicide and how?” was the questions not only on DCI Radey’s mind but that of her team as well as her bosses, Commissioner Harper and DCI Bryant