Pure Evil: The gripping and twisty new 2023 thriller from the Queen of Crime Drama

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It has also been fun to see the ways in which policing has developed throughout this series and we even had the mention of DNA here, something that would not have been heard of in previous books.

In 1983, Lynda La Plante wrote and produced the first season of Widows, a groundbreaking Thames television series, a drama about a group of four women who band together to pull off a heist after their husbands are killed during a robbery.Above Suspicion: This is the first novel in the “Anna Travis” series and was released in the year 2004. Her unwavering dedication and passion for her craft suggest that she will continue to captivate audiences on television for years to come, proving that age is no obstacle for this driven and accomplished woman. Honorary Fellowship with the Forensic Science Society (FSSoc) in 2013, the first non-science person to be inducted into the professional body, for her accurate portrayal of forensic sciences in her work.

She studied at the Royal Academy of Dramatic Art where some of her classmates were people like Ian McShane, Anthony Hopkins, and John Hurt. Especially since the first case she's assigned to involves nothing more dramatic than an altercation between neighbours over a disputed property boundary. This move seems like a daring move for a woman who – just 2 books ago – was living with her parents and who is still struggling with their tendency to be overprotective (side note: as a parent myself, I can totally understand why they don’t want Jane to be a police officer in a seedy city where murders and IRA bombs are regular occurrences!The story charts Jane Tennison's entry into the police force as a 22 year old Probationary Officer at Hackney Police Station in 1973. Lynda La Plante has also written several standalone novels, including Twisted, which was released in 2014.

Young Anna Travis has been assigned to her first murder case - a series of killings that has shocked even the most hardened o. The story will revolve around the disturbing disappearance of a schoolgirl and the race to discover where she is hidden.None of this feels anywhere near as shocking as it did in ‘Tennison’ so it’s a bit worrying that this feels like standard police procedure back then. This is another quite long book, but the tension builds well throughout as Jane tries to stay one step ahead of the IRA. After serving a lengthy sentence for the murder of her husband, Dolly Rawlins is set free from prison, with only one thing on her mind: the six million in diamonds she stashed prior to her imprisonment. The final scenes are terrifying and tense as it becomes clear that the next bomb will strike at the heart of the police force itself (not a spoiler – it literally says this in the blurb!

When the body of a young woman is discovered close to a highway service station, Detective Inspector Anna Travis is brought on to the team of investigators by her former lover and boss, Detective Chief Superintendent Langton.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. Friends from across the industry joined LaPlante and her publishing team as it was revealed that Zaffre, LaPlante’s fiction publisher, will publish the memoir of the legendary Queen of Crime Drama in spring 2024. In the footsteps of Jane Tennison, immortalized by Helen Mirren in Prime Suspect, comes Anna Travis, a rookie female detective about to embark on her first murder case.