Pure Evil: The gripping and twisty new 2023 thriller from the Queen of Crime Drama

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And when Jane discovers a handsome young boy had recently disappeared after the tragic death of his girlfriend, every family in the private close becomes a suspect. So when DCI Shefford falls ill, the opportunity for Tennison to get herself noticed finally arrives.

Additionally, her television adaptation of the popular novel Above Suspicion received the TV-Spiel-film Award. Hugh is a hardened miner from the Welsh Valleys who has seen the better part of his life pass him by. The worst part of all is when Page discovers that her colleagues have already determined Cindy is the killer, and have charged her with the act. Once again, Tennison takes a key role in a major investigation – surely it’s time for her to start rising through the ranks?As Tennison hunts for the missing piece of evidence that will identify a vicious killer, she knows that this case will either make her career - or break it. And as the hunt for the widow's lodger hits dead end after dead end, it seems that the prime suspect has vanished without a trace.

I have read mostly all of your books Jane Tennison, widows, Royal flush, unholy murder, cold blood, buried, pure evil I can go on with my list. It's been really enjoyable to be writing Jane Tennison at the age of 22 because she's out of training school ," Lynda La Plante explains "And when you've done your probationary training and you're ready to go into a proper station, you have no choice, you don't where you're going to go. When an eccentric elderly widow claims she is being stalked, Detective Jack Warr is the only person willing to dig into the truth beh. Now, it is up to Page to prove that her instincts haven’t failed her, and that there is more to this case than meets the eye. Jane Tennison has been been promoted to the role of Detective Constable in London's Bow Street CID but she is struggling with some of the decisions her colleagues are making.Her original script for the much-acclaimed Prime Suspect won awards from BAFTA, British Broadcasting and the Royal Television Society as well as the 1993 Edgar Allan Poe Award.

From the year 1979 until the year 1996, she was married to Richard La Plante (who is a musician); the marriage ended with the couple getting divorced, after they were married for seventeen years. To read more about the site or if you want a graphic to link to us, see the about page for more details. She has written the “Trial and Retribution” series, the “Jane Tennison” series, the “Legacy” series, the “Dolly Rawlins” series, the “ Anna Travis” series, some short fiction, and some stand alone novels. The fourth in the bestselling Jane Tennison thrillers, MURDER MILE is set at the height of the 'Winter of Discontent'. Based on Lynda's best selling series of Anna Travis novels, Above Suspicion, Silent Scream, Deadly Intent and Silent Scream have all adapted into TV scripts and received impressive viewing figures.

Dolly Rawlins, Linda Pirelli and Shirley Miller are left devastated when their husbands are killed in a security van heist that goes disastrously wrong. Yet one thing is clear to Detective Chief Inspector Jane Tennison about the latest victim discovered in one of London's poorest districts - that news of her murder will tear apart a city already cracking with racial tensions, hurling Scotland Yard and Tennison herself into a maelstrom of shocking accusations and sudden, wrenching violence. THE UNFORGETTABLE LEGAL THRILLER FROM THE QUEEN OF CRIME DRAMAIdentical and brutal assaults on three women. After this turning point in her life, Lynda signed her first book-deal with Pan MacMillan, who helped her publish her very first novel, The Legacy, in 1987. When a prostitute is found murdered in her bedsit, the Metropolitan police set to work finding the perpetrator of this brutal attack.

After she got done with school, she began an acting career, and acted with the Royal Shakespeare Company in different productions (using Lynda Marchal as a stage name).The Red Dahlia: This is the second novel in the “Anna Travis” series and was released in the year 2006. DC Jack Warr is clearly destined for higher things, and I look forward to following his progress' - PETER ROBINSON, No. Admirers of La Plante's Edgar Award- winning TV miniseries, Prime Suspect, and of her earlier crime-thriller fiction (Bella Mafia), will want to give this novel anything but the cold shoulder.