Turning her talent from the screen to the page, La Plante has crafted an intelligent, hard hitting thriller featuring a female lead every bit as compelling and complex as her Prime Suspect hero*ine played by Helen Mirren. Prime Suspect, the enormously successful two time Emmy Award winning television series, established its writer and creator, Lynda La Plante, as one of the preeminent originators of realistic crime drama. Worse, when the details of the beleaguered detective s stormy personal life explode across the headlines of London s sleaziest tabloids, Tennison s already frenzied determination to bring the killer to justice will be catapulted into obsession one that could send her spiraling over the edge. And as the department s deeply rooted racism rears its head to overshadow every facet of her new investigation, the trail of her prime suspect is growing colder. Even as London s brutal killer remains at large, Tennison remains locked in a struggle to overcome her station house s brutal chauvinism and insidious politicking.

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 crackling with racial tensions, hurling Scotland Yard and Tennison herself into a maelstrom of shocking accusations and sudden, wrenching violence. The coroner’s report identifies the body as young, black, female, and impossibly anonymous.

Tennison by Lynda La Plante