Murder at the Met is about misogyny in the British police. It opens with the killing of a newly appointed police commissioner at a training course in Great Windsor Lodge. The forty-two detectives present are all suspects. Then a young woman in Cambridge dies from an overdose of a date rape drug. The two investigations come together in an escalating spiral of encounters that pit detectives against detectives and ministers against ministers. A series of escalating encounters involving unexpected by credible events culminate in the home secretary's office encouraged suicide.