Lynda La Plante

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,...

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...

"Facing life alone, they turned to crime together. Dolly Rawlins, Linda Pirelli and Shirley Miller are left devastated when their husbands are killed in a security van heist that goes disastrously wrong. When Dolly discovers her husband Harry's bank deposit box, containing a gun, money - and detailed plans for the hijack - she realizes that she only has three options: 1. Give up and forget she ever found them; 2. Hand over Harry's ledgers to the police,...

Two other women soon suffer attacks similar to the detectives' current case, and one miraculously survives. Struggling bravely, she leads police to a suspect.

Walker is assigned to head up a murder investigation after a skeleton is discovered during the demolition of a derelict north London house.

Desire leaves a man destroyed … A young girl's curiosity reveals secrets better left hidden … An accidental encounter on a train ends violently … Ambition leads to a curious exchange … An uncanny likeness changes two lives forever … Here is a novel in sixteen chilling parts, linked by a glittering charm bracelet that brings misfortune to everyone who handles it. In Like a Charm, the best of British and American crime writers combine for...

Undercover officer Jake Brown is a streetwise cop who has infiltrated Manchester's drug trade. When straitlaced DI Carl Harrington angles his way into Brown's undercover operation, the two are drawn into a dangerous showdown with a big drug supplier.

Personal and professional pressures mount in the McCready case when North uncovers irregularities involving Walker, who led the original investigation.

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.

Commander Blake clashes with the drug squad and the preserved body of a two-year-old child found at an abandoned mental hospital remains a mystery. Blake is accused of having blood on her hands.