In Bed with the Badge

The Barbara Sheehan Story

In Bed with the Badge is this generations Burning Bed. Ms. Joyce and her brother, Raymond, tell the bloodcurdling story of how their father, Ray Sheehan retired NYPD Detective turned wife-beating into an art form by utilizing the very tactics he was taught in the police force. In a terrifying moment of kill or be killed, the authors mother, Barbara Sheehan, shot her husband with his own weapon. The authors recount the details of the years of abuse their mother and they sustained at the hands of their father, and open up a dialogue about the controversial defense, Battered Woman Syndrome.

In Bed With The Badge
By: Jennifer Joyce & Raymond Sheehan
February 2013
English / 288 Pages / Hardcover / 6 x 9 / True Crime
ISBN-13: 978-0-9843047-1-4
Price: $22.99 / E-Book Available