Wrongful Death
The best female-led police procedural you'll read this year, from the Sunday Times bestselling creator of Jane Tennison
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4.5 • 189 Ratings
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Publisher Description
The thrilling conclusion to the DI Anna Travis series from acclaimed and internationally bestselling crime fiction phenomenon Lynda La Plante.
DUTY TO THE JOB OR PERSONAL AMBITION? ANNA TRAVIS MUST DECIDE WHERE HER LOYALTIES LIE…
Six months ago, London nightclub owner Josh Reynolds was found dead from a single gunshot wound to the head, the gun held in his right hand. His death was quickly determined to be a suicide and the investigation was considered done and dusted. Until now.
A young man awaiting trial for armed robbery has informed his guards that Reynolds was murdered, and that he has information to share with the police. DCS James Langton tasks DCI Anna Travis with reviewing the case, with an opportunity to join him at the FBI Academy in Virginia for training when she has completed the job.
However, when Senior FBI Agent Jessie Dewar is seconded to Anna's team as part of her research, the American crime scene expert's brash manner soon ruffles feathers among the Met officers. What should have been a simple case of tying up loose ends becomes a political nightmare as the competence of the original investigation team is called into question.
Anna's trip to the US is fast approaching, but now that the situation at home has become so volatile, can she really trust Dewar to make the right calls in her absence? Or will she have to put her own career on the line to see justice done?
PRAISE FOR LYNDA LA PLANTE:
‘Lynda La Plante practically invented the thriller’ KARIN SLAUGHTER
‘The UK's most celebrated female crime author’ DAILY MAIL
‘La Plante excels in her ability to pick out the surprising but plausible details that give her portrayal of everyday life in a police station a rare ring of authenticity’ SUNDAY TELEGRAPH
‘Satisfyingly full of twists and turns’ INDEPENDENT
‘Absorbingly twisty’ GUARDIAN
APPLE BOOKS REVIEW
For fans of Anna Travis, book nine of Lynda La Plante’s series is essential reading, giving more insight into Anna’s personal state of mind than in previous books. She’s given what appears to be an interesting but simple case by her single-minded mentor DCS James Langton, along with the promise that once it’s finished, she can move up the career ladder. But she’s thrown a curve ball in the form of Jessie Dewar, a crime scene expert who ruffles feathers, leaving Anna in the middle of a political storm. She’s forced to make a decision—finishing the case with integrity or putting herself and her future first.
PUBLISHERS WEEKLY
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 police officer claims that it's a case of murder. Setting aside plans to take an FBI course in Quantico, Va., Anna teams with Jessie Dewar, a hotshot FBI agent who's in Europe doing research for a doctorate in forensic psychology. Anna and Jessie don't see eye-to-eye, but a bigger problem arises when the competence of the officers who initially investigated Reynolds's death comes into question. Revelations follow rapidly amid copious detail, both about the investigation and the characters' thoughts and personal lives. Some readers may be jarred by British expressions emerging from American mouths, such as Don Blane, an FBI agent, saying, "Transport is just outside." Not bloody likely.
Customer Reviews
Wrongful death
To begin with it didn’t hold my attention for long,so wasn’t sure I would finish it.
But kept on reading & really got into it couldn’t put it down.
One of her better books is this the end for travis? As Langton has retired or not would like to see her end up happy with the guy from quantico in America as it’s all bad for her no happy ever after. Well done la plante.
Great book as always could not put it down
Great twist and turns
Wrongful Death
Excellent, gripping throughout right to the end!