Lynda La Plante
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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...
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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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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...
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The gritty new thriller from the Queen of Crime Drama and the fifth book in the Sunday Times bestselling Jane Tennison series.
Jane Tennison has worked hard to become the first female detective ever post to the infamous Flying Squad, or 'the Sweeney'. But the Dirty Dozen is a notorious boys' club, and Jane's new colleagues make it clear that they don't think a woman is up to the dangers of the job.
Dealing with some of London's most ruthless armed...
5) Cold Heart
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Between grief and guilt lies the truth.
Movie mogul Harry Nathan's lonely death in a Beverley Hills swimming pool is the beginning of a trail of lust and conspiracy leading to the darkest corners of the international art world.
Private investigator Lorraine Page faces her toughest fight ever as she takes on the case for fading starlet Cindy Nathan, Harry's third wife. Lorraine believes the grieving widow's story. Unlike her ex-colleagues in the...
6) She's Out
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The final act in the bestselling Widows series
After serving a lengthy sentence for the murder of her husband, Dolly Rawlins is free from prison. And she's only got one thing on her mind: the diamonds she stashed before the police caught her.
But there are people waiting for Dolly on the outside - tough ex-prisoners who know about the diamonds, and they all want a cut.
Also waiting for Dolly is DS Mike Withey. He holds her personally responsible...
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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She's lost everything, except her life...
Lieutenant Lorraine Page once had everything - a devoted husband, two beautiful daughters and an impressive career with the Homicide Squad. It's impossible to believe that she could be thrown out of the police force and end up on Skid Row.
Without Lorraine, her colleagues struggle on, as the hunt for a nightmare serial killer spirals into an all-out search for a missing witness: a victim who escaped.
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9) 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...
10) Cold Blood
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Can she play the game, and win?
Suspicion and fear surround the mysterious disappearance of a movie star's daughter.
The race to claim the reward for finding Anna Louise Caley - dead or alive - spirals into a deadly voodoo trail in the French quarter of New Orleans.
In her desperation to succeed in her first case as a private detective, ex-Lieutenant Lorraine Page is caught in a web of deceit and violence that threatens to drag her back into the...
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THE CRIME DOESN'T ALWAYS FIT THE PUNISHMENT
A life and death hostage situation at Barfield High Security prison brings Governor Helen Hewitt back to her old stomping ground. But things have changed at Barfield.
A new, highly dangerous prisoner poses a threat to the peace, and when discord boils over, the prisoners join forces in an audacious escape attempt. As violence erupts among the officers and the inmates, Hewitt must once again restore order....
12) The Governor
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NO ONE IS ABOVE THE LAW
Barfield Prison is one of the toughest high security prisons in England, housing the country's most dangerous criminals. And when an inmate is found dead in his cell, a riot breaks out, forcing the authorities to investigate a potential murder.
Despite being Barfield's youngest ever female Governor, Helen Hewitt is seen as the best woman for the job. But with a prison full of corrupt and suspicious officers, restless inmates...
13) 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...
14) Widows
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"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,...
15) Widows' revenge
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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. Andhe doesn't just mean getting his hands on the money. The women can't keep running. They...
16) Buried
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Jack Warr is a young DC with the Metropolitan Police. Charming but aimless, Jack can't seem to find his place in the world - until he's drawn into an investigation that turns his life upside down. In the aftermath of a fire at a derelict cottage, a badly charred body is discovered, along with the burnt remnants of millions of stolen, untraceable bank notes - the hidden legacy of Dolly Rawlins and her gang of Widows. Jack's assignment to the case coincides...
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Trial and Retribution volume 2
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Two other women soon suffer attacks similar to the detectives' current case, and one miraculously survives. Struggling bravely, she leads police to a suspect.
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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 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.