Lynda La Plante
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An international bestseller, Lynda La Plante's thrilling detective novel Prime Suspect introduced readers around the world to Detective Chief Inspector Jane Tennison, a gritty investigator locked in a tooth-and-nail struggle to claim the authority, acceptance, and respect she deserves from Scotland Yard's chauvinist detective squad-even as she desperately tracks the maniac now running loose in the streets of London. Fans of Sue Grafton's Kinsey Millhone...
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Anna Travis mysteries volume 9
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London's Detective Chief Inspector Anna Travis must decide where her loyalties lie, duty to the job or personal ambition, in this masterful tale of suspense from the award-winning, international bestselling author of the Prime Suspect series-one of today's finest crime writers, alongside such talents as Sophie Hannah, Ruth Rendell, Kate Atkinson, and Ian Rankin.
Six months ago, London nightclub owner Josh Reynolds was found dead. Ruled a suicide,...
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In Prime Suspect 3, Lynda La Plante's no-nonsense detective, Jane Tennison, takes on the most insidious nemesis she's ever faced-her own mounting obsessions. Determined to bring justice to the murder of a teenaged male prostitute, but thwarted by conspiracy, corruption, and chauvinism at every level of her own police force, Jane is starting to crack. And though she's finally broken through the glass ceiling of her old station house and been promoted...
4) Backlash
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Anna Travis mysteries volume 8
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Award-winning and international bestselling author Lynda La Plante returns with the eighth installment in her acclaimed series featuring London's Detective Chief Inspector Anna Travis.
Late night on a notorious high-rise estate in the borough of Hackney. A woman on the street never makes it home after a long night of drinking. A white van is being driven erratically. The driver is pulled over by the police and questioned. A suspect . . . an arrest...
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The fast-paced follow-up to Lynda La Plante's first Prime Suspect thriller, Prime Suspect 2: A Face in the Crowd brings reunites readers with Detective Chief Inspector Jane Tennison as she hunts down a mysterious killer hidden amidst London's dark streets and dockways-and as she continues to struggle against the male dominated politics of Scotland Yard. The no-nonsense detective will strike a chord with readers of Laura Lippman's Tess Monaghan books...
6) Widows
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The groundbreaking thriller from the Queen of Crime Drama and the basis for Steve McQueen's major motion picture. WIDOWS is a fast-paced heist thriller with an all-female cast you won't forget
Facing life alone, they turned to crime together
A security van heist goes disastrously wrong and three women are left widowed.
When Dolly Rawlins discovers her gang boss husband's plans for the failed hijack, an idea starts to form ...
Could she and the...
7) Royal Flush
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Wealthy racing yard owner Edward de Jersey, has spent the last few years of his life reaping the rewards of his criminal mastermind past and spending his free time priming his star horse, Royal Flush, for a Derby win. Having successfully pulled off some of the most lucrative heists in history as 'The Colonel', at the height of his activity, he was one of the most prolific criminals of his time.
But, when his financial advisor invests his fortune...
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DOLLY, LINDA, SHIRLEY AND BELLA ARE BACK. AND THIS TIME IT'S A FIGHT TO THE FINISH.
Against all the odds, Dolly Rawlins and her gangland widows managed the impossible: a heist their husbands had failed to pull off - at the cost of their lives.
But though they may be in the money, they're far from easy street.
Shocked by her husband's betrayal, Dolly discovers Harry Rawlins isn't dead. He knows where the four women are and he wants them to pay....
9) Twisted
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A family under constant scrutiny from both the police and the press as a fifteen year old goes missing after a sleepover with a friend; a marriage at breaking point; a father who has seemingly lied about his alibi; and a detective feeling the pressure to deliver an arrest, are thrust together to make for yet another incredibly intricate and dark thriller from Lynda La Plante.
Note: this novel contains themes of sexual abuse and self harm.
10) Pure Evil
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ALL KILLERS WANT TO MAKE THE FRONT PAGE . . .
It was supposed to be a simple case: a young man arrested for armed assault.
But it was just the beginning.
As Rodney Middleton awaits trial, Detective Jack Warr is warned by his mentor DCI Ridley that they have only scratched the surface of the man's crimes.
Then DCI Ridley is suddenly removed from his post. No one is to contact him - and no one will say why.
As Warr digs into Middleton's past,...
11) Enfouis
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L'inspecteur Jack Warr se lance dans une enquête qui le plongera dans son passé... Jusqu'à pénétrer l'univers dangereux et secret de la pègre londonienne. La nouvelle série de Lynda La Plante, autrice et scénariste aux multiples récompenses, à l'origine d'une quarantaine de best-sellers internationaux.
Le premier volet des enquêtes de Jack Warr. Une série vendue au Royaume-Uni à plus de 600 000 exemplaires, par Lynda La Plante, la reine...
12) Murder Mile
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Can Jane Tennison uncover a serial killer?
The fourth in the Sunday Times bestselling Jane Tennison thrillers, MURDER MILE is set in 1979 at the height of the 'Winter of Discontent' when economic chaos has led to widespread strikes across Britain.
Jane Tennison, now a Detective Sergeant, has been posted to Peckham CID, one of London's toughest areas. As the rubbish on the streets begins to pile up, so does the murder count: two bodies in as many...
13) Blood line
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Anna Travis mysteries volume 7
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"Still reeling from the death of her fiance, Detective Anna Travis has thrown herself into her new role as the chief inspector for London's murder squad. When Scotland Yard's missing persons bureau is unable to locate the son of a court employee, the superintendent--James Langton, Anna's former lover turned sometimes friend--urges her to take on the suspicious assignment. But is this new investigation purely a missing persons case--or a full-blown...
14) Judas horse
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"When Detective Jack Warr identifies an informer, the terrified man begins to give details of a massive robbery planned by a team of unscrupulous and dangerous men. These men have already orchestrated many audacious robberies, leaving terrified victims in their wake. And they have already killed to get what they want. Detective Jack Warr and his team must use their informant as a 'Judas Horse' to draw in the unsuspecting robbers, so that they go ahead...
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Trial and Retribution volume 2
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Skeletons keep turning up at a home in North London. The bones belong to three young woman killed more than 17 years earlier, when a family ran a bed-and-breakfast there.
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Trial and Retribution volume 1
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North joins a team reopening an old case involving James McCready, convicted of murdering his partner. Citing new evidence, a barrister wants to overturn the conviction.
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Trial and Retribution volume 2
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North - now working on the vice squad and living with Walker - responds to a complaint from a wealthy businessman whose pursuit of her turns increasingly sinister.
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Trial and Retribution volume 1
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Walker is assigned to head up a murder investigation after a skeleton is discovered during the demolition of a derelict north London house.
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Trial and Retribution volume 1
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Teenager Cassie Booth vanishes in the midst of her newspaper delivery route. Walker's hopes of finding her alive fade when an anonymous tip leads to grisly clues.
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Trial and Retribution volume 1
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After a prostitute's tortured, mutilated body turns up on a garbage heap, DS Michael Walker and DI Pat North know they face an exceptionally sadistic psychopath.