Lynda La Plante, Author Random House (NY) $23 (416p) ISBN 978-0-679-44104-5
If it was La Plante's intention to create a character far removed from her memorable Jane Tennison (of Prime Suspect fame), she has succeeded in this sequel to Cold Shoulder. Where the upright, ambitious Tennison was a refreshing original, Lorraine...
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Lynda La Plante. Zaffre (IPG, dist.), $28.99 (320p) ISBN 978-1-78576-980-1
La Plante’s so-so sequel to 2020’s Buried starts more strongly than it finishes. Like many a maverick cop, Det. Sgt. Jack Warr, of the Metropolitan Police, has a “reputation for doggedly following his instincts, regardless of how dubious that course
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Lynda La Plante. Zaffre, $16 trade paper (424p) ISBN 978-1-49986-155-6
A dynamite premise and ample plot twists help compensate for the glacial pace of La Plante’s novelization of her breakout TV series, originally published in the U.K. in 1983. After Dolly Rawlins learns that her husband, Harry, died in a fiery wreck...
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Lynda La Plante. Harper/Bourbon Street, $15.99 trade paper (512p) ISBN 978-0-06-235593-5
In La Plante’s convoluted ninth Anna Travis novel (after 2013’s Backlash), the English detective chief inspector takes charge of re-examining the months-old suicide of Joshua Reynolds, a London nightclub owner, after a man arrested for assaulting a...
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Lynda La Plante. Harper/Bourbon Street, $14.99 trade paper (496p) ISBN 978-0-06-213434-9
La Plante breaks no new ground in her eighth Anna Travis novel (after 2012’s Bloodline). Anna, now detective chief inspector for Specialist Casework, uses lateral thinking to restart stalled murder investigations, including one involving Henry Oates,
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Lynda La Plante. Harper Paperbacks, $14.99 trade paper (480p) ISBN 978-0-06-213432-5
La Plante’s well-crafted seventh Anna Travis novel (after 2011’s Blood Fury) finds the London detective chief inspector looking into a missing person case. Evidence of a pool of blood is discovered directly under the bed of 26-year-old car mechanic...
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Lynda La Plante. S&S/Touchstone, $15 trade paper (512p) ISBN 978-1-4391-3930-1
When an unidentified woman is discovered raped and murdered at a service station off the M1 motorway in La Plante's gripping sixth novel featuring London Det. Insp. Anna Travis (after Silent Scream), Anna and her team fear it's the work of the same...
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Lynda La Plante, Author . Random $24.95 (384p) ISBN 978-1-4000-6025-2
La Plante (Prime Suspect
, etc.) heads for Ascot in this involving heist novel about a British champion racehorse owner who decides to steal the Crown Jewels after losing his fortune in an Internet scam. Son of a London bookie, husband of a Swedish...
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Lynda La Plante, Author Random House (NY) $24 (0p) ISBN 978-0-679-44103-8
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. After acute alcoholism ruins her career and marriage,...
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Lynda La Plante, Author William Morrow & Company $22 (461p) ISBN 978-0-688-09243-6
London screenwriter LaPlante, whose beautifully nuanced TV drama Prime Suspect gathered praise on both sides of the Atlantic, batters her readers with this heavy-handed psychological melodrama about twins who were subjected to the experiments of Dr.
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Lynda La Plante, Author William Morrow & Company $19.95 (498p) ISBN 978-0-688-09242-9
BBC writer La Plante's hefty first novel initially daunts with a surfeit of minor characters and confusing Mafia business connections--but is redeemed by the emergence of strong major characters and a plot offering a stark view of the dark bonds of...
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Lynda La Plante, Touchstone, $15 paper (416p) ISBN 978-1-4391-3928-8
In La Plante's disappointing fifth mystery to feature London's Det. Insp. Anna Travis (after 2009's Deadly Intent), Travis looks into the stabbing murder of 24-year-old movie star Amanda Delany in her Belgravia mews house. The case is a jumble of...
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Lynda La Plante, Author . Touchstone $15 (485p) ISBN 978-1-4165-8831-3
At the start of La Plante's excellent fourth crime drama to feature London Det. Insp. Anna Travis (after 2008's Clean Cut
), wanted drug kingpin Alexander Fitzpatrick returns home to England after plastic surgery in Mexico, desperate to...
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Lynda La Plante, Author . Touchstone $15 (416p) ISBN 978-1-4165-8666-1
In La Plante’s solid third police procedural to feature London Det. Insp. Anna Travis (after 2007’s The Red Dahlia
), Anna’s lover and superior, Det. Chief Insp. Jimmy Langton, is knifed while investigating the murder of a young...
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Lynda La Plante, Author . Touchstone $14 (416p) ISBN 978-1-4165-3219-4
In her second Det. Insp. Anna Travis novel (after 2004's Above Suspicion
), British author La Plante, best known for TV's Prime Suspect
featuring DCI Jane Tennison, transports the unsolved Black Dahlia murder to present-day London with...
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Lynda La Plante, Author . Touchstone $14 (392p) ISBN 978-0-7432-7685-6
La Plante's gripping thriller (after Cold Shoulder, Cold Blood
and the Prime Suspect
television series) launches the crime-fighting career of another brainy, sexy female homicide detective, fledgling London copper Anna Travis. As the bright...
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Lynda La Plante, Author, Lynda L. Plante, Author Random House (NY) $24.95 (352p) ISBN 978-0-375-50004-6
Featuring the sleazy Hollywood denizens that La Plante depicts so well, this follow-up to Cold Blood and Cold Shoulder, though enjoyable reading, suffers from a flurry of plot coincidences and an unsatisfying ending. Ex-cop Lorraine Page (last seen...
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Lynda La Plante. Zaffre (IPG, dist.), $28.99 (352p) ISBN 978-1-4998-6243-0
In contrast to La Plante’s breakout Prime Suspect books, police procedurals that took an unflinching look at sexism directed against female officers, this series kickoff offers mostly soap opera. Det. Constable Jack Warr, “a strikingly attractive...
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Lynda La Plante. Zaffre (IPG, dist.), $16 trade paper (416p) ISBN 978-1-83877-451-6
Set sometime in the 1970s, La Plante’s middling seventh procedural featuring Jane Tennison as a young cop (after 2020’s Blunt Force) finds the detective sergeant posted to the CID office in the London borough of Bromley, where she moved after...
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