Lynda La Plante
2) Clean cut
Author
Series
Anna Travis mysteries volume 3
Publisher
Simon & Schuster
Pub. Date
2008, c2007
Language
English
Description
Nearly killed while pursuing a gang of illegal immigrants that murdered a young prostitute, Detective Chief Inspector James Langton is attended by his protege and lover Anna, who discovers an unsettling connection between James's case and one of her own.
Author
Series
Publisher
Simon & Schuster
Pub. Date
2009
Language
English
Description
"Ruthless drug trafficker Alexander Fitzpatrick is one of the most wanted men in the Western Hemisphere. But for ten years, there's been no sign of him. Is he dead, or just trying to appear that way? When an ex-colleague from the murder squad is found shot in a dank drug den, Anna Travis is pulled into the case. She's grateful for the distraction after her breakup with DCI Langton and soon finds herself involved with someone new. But as the bodies...
4) Judas horse
Author
Series
Publisher
Zaffre
Pub. Date
2021.
Language
English
Description
"When Detective Jack Warr identifies an informer, the terrified man begins to give details of a massive robbery planned by a team of unscrupulous and dangerous men. These men have already orchestrated many audacious robberies, leaving terrified victims in their wake. And they have already killed to get what they want. Detective Jack Warr and his team must use their informant as a 'Judas Horse' to draw in the unsuspecting robbers, so that they go ahead...
5) Widows
Author
Series
Publisher
Zaffre
Pub. Date
2018.
Language
English
Description
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,...
8) Blind fury
Author
Series
Language
English
Formats
Description
Helping to investigate a series of killings, Detective Inspector Anna Travis accepts an offer of assistance from Cameron Welsh, a convicted murderer she helped arrest in the past, but Welsh's obsession with Anna brings terrible consequences.
Author
Series
Lorraine Page mysteries volume 1
Publisher
Random House
Pub. Date
c1996
Language
English
Description
The road back to glory of a policewoman who became a prostitute. She is Lieutenant Lorraine Page of California, disgraced for killing a fleeing teenager while drunk, an act which cost her job. Abandoned by her family, she has lived on the street as a hooker. A murder, the victim of which was a friend, reawakens old instincts and as she hunts for the killer, she is transformed. By the author of Bella Mafia.
11) Cold blood
Author
Series
Lorraine Page mysteries volume 2
Publisher
Random House
Pub. Date
1997, c1996
Language
English
12) Pure evil
Author
Series
Publisher
ZAFFRE
Pub. Date
2023.
Language
English
Description
It was supposed to be a simple case: a young man arrested for armed assault. But it was just the beginning. As Rodney Middleton awaits trial, Detective Jack Warr is warned by his mentor DCI Ridley that they have only scratched the surface of the man's crimes. Then DCI Ridley is suddenly removed from his post. No one is to contact him - and no one will say why. As Warr digs into Rodney's past, Ridley calls pleading for help, now accused of a murder...
13) Blood line
Author
Series
Publisher
Bourbon Street Books
Pub. Date
c2012
Language
English
Description
"Still reeling from the death of her fiance, Detective Anna Travis has thrown herself into her new role as the chief inspector for London's murder squad. When Scotland Yard's missing persons bureau is unable to locate the son of a court employee, the superintendent--James Langton, Anna's former lover turned sometimes friend--urges her to take on the suspicious assignment. But is this new investigation purely a missing persons case--or a full-blown...
14) Tennison
Author
Series
Publisher
Bonnier Zaffre Ltd
Pub. Date
[2018]
Language
English
Description
Before Prime Suspect there was Tennison - this is her story. The Kray twins may be behind bars, but the streets of London are still rife with drugs, robbery and murder. 1973, in the East End of London, a young WPC Jane Tennison joins the toughest ranks of the Hackney police force as a probationary office. When her first case comes in, a woman savagely beaten and strangled to death, Jane is thrown in at the deep end.
16) Cold heart
Author
Series
Lorraine Page mysteries volume 3
Publisher
Random House
Pub. Date
c1999
Language
English
Description
PI Lorraine Page of Los Angeles investigates the murder of a movie mogul, shot in his Beverly Hills swimming pool. Suspects include his abused wife and his two ex-wives. By the author of Cold Blood.
17) Dark rooms
Author
Series
Jane Tennison mysteries volume 8
Publisher
Zaffre
Pub. Date
2022.
Language
English
Description
Jane Tennison is leading a murder investigation into the recent brutal death of a young girl, her decomposed starved body discovered in an old air raid shelter in the garden of the Lanark's now derelict house. Initially the focus is on identifying the victim, until another body is found, hidden in the walls of the shelter.
18) Wrongful death
Author
Series
Publisher
Bourbon Street Books, an imprint of Harper Collins Publishers
Pub. Date
[2015]
Language
English
Description
"London's Detective Chief Inspector Anna Travis must decide where her loyalties lie, duty to the job or personal ambition, in this masterful tale of suspense from the award-winning, international bestselling author of the Prime Suspect series--one of today's finest crime writers, alongside such talents as Sophie Hannah, Ruth Rendell, Kate Atkinson, and Ian Rankin.Six months ago, London nightclub owner Josh Reynolds was found dead. Ruled a suicide,...
Author
Series
Jane Tennison mysteries volume 3
Language
English
Formats
Description
"Chief Detective Inspector Jane Tennison has moved up the ranks, fighting every step of the way to break through the station house's glass ceiling. Now, on her first day as the head of the Vice Squad, a case comes in that threatens to destroy everything she has worked for. As Vera Reynolds, drag queen and night club star, swayed onstage singing 'Falling in Love Again,' a sixteen-year-old rent boy lay in the older man's apartment, engulfed in flames....
