Synopses & Reviews
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 . . . a confession. Case closed?
Five years earlier, a thirteen-year-old girl disappeared in broad daylight on a busy London street. Detective Chief Superintendent James Langton headed the investigation; the case was never solved. It has haunted him ever since. And now comes another confession, to this murder, and to one more besides. But is it too good to be true? After being pulled into the fray, Anna Travis isn't so sure that they have their man.
Then the suspect changes his story. . . .
Review
“In this eighth entry in the Anna Travis series, La Plante offers another fine blend of police procedural and gritty thriller.” Booklist
About the Author
LYNDA LA PLANTEs fifteen novels, including the Prime Suspect series, have all been international bestsellers. She was named a Commander of the Order of the British Empire (CBE) in the Queens Birthday Honours list in 2008. Lynda La Plante is the writer and producer ofthe British and American TV adaptations of the Prime Suspect series, as well as the current TV series
Above Suspicion, based on her Anna Travis novels. She runs her own television production company
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