Dark Rooms: The brand new Jane Tennison thriller from The Queen of Crime Drama

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Both sets of parents were awful, Eddies less so, and Jane’s sister didn’t seem to be anyone you’d want to grab a drink with either. I also doubt this book was ever proof read considering the amount of mistakes i noticed while reading! Then Jane’s partner Eddie was weird. I had no idea what he actually looked like as it was never said so I had to make something up in my head - felt very strange - and he just didn’t seem like a good bloke for someone who’s a good detective - I mean, read the red flags! In this case, protagonist Jane Tennison – who begins the story as a newly promoted detective – investigates an historic case where a body has been found during a planned redevelopment of a derelict house once owned by the Lanark family. When Tennison discovers another body hidden in the same shelter, a complex case involving a trip to Australia to visit Lanark family members unearths many family secrets in the process.

Lynda's original script for the much-acclaimed Prime Suspectwon awards fromBAFTA,Emmys, British Broadcasting and Royal Television Society as well as the 1993 Edgar Allan Poe Award. Relentless in her pursuit of the truth, Jane finds herself ostracised, but remains determined to solve the mystery of the baby’s death. I really had an issue with the Jason Thorpe character, particularly at the end as the events reached their anti climactic climax. He is portrayed throughout as a sort of brutish, somewhat threatening thug, with his own successful business but almost certainly a fair amount of dodgy dealings in both that and the affairs of his aunt/the house. Then at the climactic ending his character is completely switched up and he’s suddenly some kind of simpleton we should pity? It’s absolutely bizarre. Buying this book, it was clear it was part of a series starring a detective, but in theory it was a standalone book. In that, I can say it was. I've read all the books in this series so far and really enjoyed them but there is something about this particular book that is just 'off' for want of a better word.The trip to Australia - how utterly utterly unnecessary. In the time period it’s set, surely this was a huge expense, and whilst international phone calls were expensive too, they would have been a damn sight cheaper than sending two coppers over for 36 hours. So so strange. On the upside we got to see loads more entitled and judgemental attitude from Jane, so that was delightful. All the misogynistic horrors, sexual harassment in the workplace and tropes of the 1970s are there amid a rather bizarre plot of not just dark rooms but dark "family secrets" and dark discoveries. If I was to be completely objective, I would say that this was deeply flawed. What new DI shares details of a delicate case with family and friends? However I wallowed in the retro on every level and enjoyed my wallow as much as Jane Tennison enjoys a bath. I love mysteries, crime novels, and stories of this sort, but this was really a disappointing read. The story itself details an intriguing case while offering a strong focus on Tennison’s personal and professional life alike. The formulaic narrative and over-referencing certain aspects of the era did prove too prominent at times. What was the point of the investigation? The family history was so all over the place and by the end of the book the whole thing seemed like a waste of time.

The elderly Helena Lanark now lives in a luxurious care home. She is the heiress of an immense family fortune and holds on to a dark secret of the horror which once occurred within the Lanark family house. The brief storyline with the weed was so so so unneeded and began with ooh whats Eddie hiding and ended abruptly a chapter later, why? Also, new - renovation porn. I doubt though it can turn out well without some general idea, it sounds a bit all over the place. 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.What I liked was a different style of telling the story, I'm a bit tired of all the same contemporary unreliable narrators in every mystery novel these days, so, a solid person was so refreshing. DI Jane Tennison starts at a new police station and is thrown right in to a new murder investigation. A decomposed body of a young female has been found in an old air raid shelter in the garden of the Lanark's derelict house. She has been brutally murdered. They are focusing on identifying the victim until they find another body hidden in the walls. Jane travels to Australia to get to the bottom of the case. 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. The characters were all, ALL, incredibly unlikeable. Eddie was probably the least unlikeable and seemed mostly ok, except for some reason seemed to hate everything about Jane’s job and automatically disagreed with her and put her down when she tried to talk about it with him. Red flag there, Jane! Her first TV series as a scriptwriter was the six part robbery series Widows, in 1983, in which the widows of four armed robbers carry out a heist planned by their deceased husbands.