Lynda La Plante

Book List in Order: 49 titles

  • Dark Rooms

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    The edge-of-your-seat new thriller from the Queen of Crime Drama.Helena Lanark is an elderly woman, living in a luxurious care home. The heiress of an immense family fortune, she keeps the secret to the horror which once occurred within the Lanark fa...

  • Vanished

    The up-all-night new Detective Jack Warr thriller from the Sunday Times bestselling author of BURIED and JUDAS HORSE.When an eccentric elderly widow claims she is being stalked, Detective Jack Warr is the only person willing to dig into the truth beh...

  • Unholy Murder

    Detective Jane Tennison must lift the lid on the most chilling murder case of her career to date - in the brand new thriller from the Queen of Crime Drama, Lynda La Plante.A coffin is dug up by builders in the grounds of an historic co...

  • Judas Horse

    Not all killers can be tamed... The thrilling second book in the Sunday Times bestselling Detective Jack Warr crime series. Wild mustangs are difficult to rope, their lead stallion wary and protective of his herd. To capture that special stallio...

  • Blunt Force

    Jane Tennison must navigate the salacious world of theatre to solve a brutal murder in the heart of London's West End, in the brilliant new thriller from the Queen of Crime Drama, Lynda La Plante.Things can't get much worse for detective Jane Tenniso...

  • Buried

    The first book in a brand-new series by the Queen of Crime Drama, Lynda La Plante.Millions of stolen, untraceable bank notes lie untouched in an old Victorian cottage, the hidden legacy of the Dolly Rawlins and her widows.  But the millions are not...

  • Widows' Revenge

    DOLLY, LINDA, SHIRLEY AND BELLA ARE BACK. AND THIS TIME IT'S A FIGHT TO THE FINISH.Against all the odds, Dolly Rawlins and her gangland widows managed the impossible: a heist their husbands had failed to pull off - at the cost of their lives.  But...

  • The Dirty Dozen

    The fifth book in the Tennison series following Jane Tennison in the early years of her policing career.The fifth book in the Sunday Times bestselling Jane Tennison series. April 1980 and Jane is the first female detective to be posted to the Met'...

  • Revenge

    The sequel to Lynda La Plante’s groundbreaking thriller, Widows. Now a major motion picture.DOLLY, LINDA, SHIRLEY AND BELLA ARE BACK. AND THIS TIME IT'S A FIGHT TO THE FINISH. Against all the odds, Dolly Rawlins and her gangland widows managed t...




  • Murder Mile

    Prime Suspect meets Ashes to Ashes as we see Jane Tennison starting out on her police career .The fourth in the bestselling Jane Tennison thrillers, MURDER MILE is set at the height of the 'Winter of Discontent'. Can Jane Tennison uncover a serial ki...

  • Widows

    THE BASIS FOR STEVE MCQUEEN'S UPCOMING MAJOR MOTION PICTURE, WIDOWS IS A FAST-PACED HEIST THRILLER WITH AN ALL FEMALE CAST YOU WON'T FORGET.Facing life alone, they turned to crime together. Dolly Rawlins, Linda Pirelli and Shirley Miller are ...

  • The Legacy

    **The 30th Anniversary Edition: revised and updated for old and new fans of Lynda La Plante** One family. One legacy. One curse. Hugh is a hardened miner from the Welsh Valleys who has seen the better part of his life pass him by. His daughter Evelyn...

  • The Murder Files

    Above Suspicion The first instalment in the bestselling Anna Travis series from the BAFTA-winning writer Lynda La Plante. Young Anna Travis has been assigned to her first murder case - a series of killings that has shocked even the most hardened o...

  • Good Friday

    Before Prime Suspect there was Tennison - this is her storyIn the race to stop a deadly attack just pray she''s not too late . . . March, 1976. The height of The Troubles. An IRA bombing campaign strikes terror across Britain. Nowhere and no one is s...

  • Hidden Killers

    Before Prime Suspect there was Tennison - this is her storyJane Tennison has been been promoted to the role of Detective Constable in London's Bow Street CID but she is struggling with some of the decisions her colleagues are making. The more experie...

  • Tennison

    Before Prime Suspect there was Tennison - this is her story1973. After leaving the Metropolitan Police Training Academy, 22 year-old Jane Tennison is placed on a probationary exercise in Hackney, London where criminality thrives. At first she st...

  • The Prime Suspect Cases

    All three Prime Suspect cases, featuring DCI Jane Tennison, in one stunning volume PRIME SUSPECT When a prostitute is found murdered in her bedsit, the Metropolitan police set to work finding the perpetrator of this brutal attack. For Detective Chief...

  • Twisted

  • Wrongful Death

    • / Police/Detective/Law Enforcement
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    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...




  • The Escape

    Is a change of identity all it takes to leave prison? Colin Burrows is desperate. Recently sent to prison for burglary, he knows that his four year sentence means that he will miss the birth of his first child. With his wife's due date fast appro...

  • Backlash

    Award-winning and international bestselling author Lynda La Plante returns with the eighth installment in her acclaimed series featuring London's Detective Chief Inspector Anna Travis. Late night on a notorious high-rise estate in the borough of H...

  • Blood Line

    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 ...

  • She's Out

    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. Waiting for Dolly is a group of women who all s...

  • The Little One
  • Blind Fury

    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. As more evidence is unco...

  • Silent Scream

    Film star Amanda Delany has the world at her feet. Never one for the quiet life, she has had a string of affairs with the hottest actors around. Then, coming home late from a night shoot, Amanda puts the key in her front door for the very last time. ...

  • Deadly Intent

    Anna Travis is back in a new gripping mystery from Lynda La Plante, featuring the female detective every bit as intelligent, ambitious, and flawed as Prime Suspect's Jane Tennison. Ruthless drug trafficker Alexander Fitzpatrick is one of the most ...

  • Clean Cut

    Dedicated, intuitive, and utterly obsessive, DCI James Langton is ruthless in his pursuit of a gang of illegal immigrants, the murderers of a young prostitute. When one of them nearly kills him, Anna Travis nurses his wounds and bears the brunt of hi...

  • The Red Dahlia

    When the body of a young girl is found dumped on the banks of the Thames, even the police are shocked by the brutality of her murder: horrifically mutilated, severed in half, and drained of blood, her corpse is an obvious mirror image of the famous B...




  • Above Suspicion

    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. The murders couldn't be more gruesome. The method of killing is identical, the ba...

  • Murder at the Foul Line

    You've seen the headlines. On the court they brawl with opponents, fight with fans, and attack their own coach. Off the court they get drunk, grope women, and, sometimes, get tried for murder. Now these all-star bad boys from the ranks of today's pro...

  • Royal Heist

    From Lynda La Plante, one of the world’s greatest crime writers, Royal Heist is a big, dashing novel of deception, passion, and international suspense, in which a man with a dangerous double life masterminds the greatest robbery of all time.With a ...

  • The Goblin

    in Like A Charm

    Desire leaves a man destroyed ... A young girl's curiosity reveals secrets better left hidden ... Jealousy drives a woman mad ... An obsession with numbers precipitates a deadly revenge ... Ambition leads to a curious exchange ... An uncanny likeness...

  • Trial and Retribution VI

    A derelict house is being demolished when workmen discover the remains of a young girl. Walker is far from happy at being assigned the seventeen-year-old murder case, especially as North's career is really taking off. However, things soon hot up when...

  • Cold Heart

    Having established her reputation with the enormously successful, two-time Emmy Award-winning television series Prime Suspect, author/screenwriter Lynda La Plante enhanced it with her more recent popular CBS TV miniseries, Bella Mafia. The same unbea...

  • Trial & Retribution

    It is every mother's nightmare. Her child is missing, found murdered. Her lover is the prime suspect. It is every police officer's dread. A child murdered in a circumstantial case. It is every lawyer's dream. Twelve men and women will decide the verd...

  • Cold Blood

    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. Turning her talent from the screen to the page...

  • Steroid Blues

    John Winston Flint, prominent Philadelphia physician, has been systematically tortured to death. Every bone in his body has been shattered—even the joints of his fingers and toes reduced to powder.The doctor’s hidden side is revealed when a polic...

  • Cold Shoulder

    The chilling tale of a down-on-her-luck LAPD cop -- and the serial killer who could save her career......




  • Prime Suspect 3: Silent Victims

    The drag queen named Vera Reynolds swayed on-stage singing "Falling in Love Again."  And a sixteen-year-old boy lay in Vera's fire-engulfed apartment . . . very, very dead.  He was a "rent boy," a sex-for-hire street kid who catered to the tastes...

  • Framed

  • Entwined

  • Prime Suspect 2: A Face in the Crowd

    The victim was young. Female. And black. Her  skull had been smashed in, her face decomposed  beyond all recognition. But for Detective Chief  Inspector Jane Tennison, the corpse that had just been  found in one of London's poorest communitie...

  • Prime Suspect

    In the dark night of the soul . . . . If  Detective Chief Inspector Jane Tennison hadn't been a  woman, she might not have noticed the victim's shoes  . . . . and that they didn't match the size given on  the info sheet now so obviously misid...

  • Bella Mafia

  • Widows II

    A novel which formed the basis of a Thames Television series. Four women hold up an armed security wagon and make their escape to Rio, leaving the bulk of the cash hidden in London. They are free and ready to start a new life, but the shadow of a man...

  • Royal Flush

    • / General Fiction
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  • Sleeping Cruelty

    • / General Fiction
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    LYNDA LA PLANTE'S FANTASTIC NEW NOVEL OF POLITICS. SCANDAL AND AN ISLAND PARADISE...Fabulously wealthy entrepreneur Sir William Benedict has always dreamed of being accepted amongst society's elite, despite his working class roots. When fast-rising T...

  • The Talisman

    • / Mystery
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    From the goldmines of South Africa to the boardrooms of the City of London, from the risks of the casinos to the heady glamour of the London fashion world, the author continues the saga of a family's fortunes. This edition also contains Books 6-14 of...




Complete Series List in Order

An Anna Travis Mystery

1) Above Suspicion (Jan-2006)
2) The Red Dahlia (Jun-2007)
3) Clean Cut (Oct-2008)
4) Deadly Intent (Jul-2009)
5) Silent Scream (Jul-2010)
6) Blind Fury (Jul-2011)
7) Blood Line (Oct-2012)
8) Backlash (Oct-2013)
9) Wrongful Death (Jan-2015)

Jack Warr

1) Buried (Apr-2020)
2) Judas Horse (Mar-2021)
3) Vanished (Aug-2022)

Jane Tennison

1) Prime Suspect (Aug-1991)
2) Prime Suspect 2: A Face in the Crowd (Feb-1993)
2) Hidden Killers (Oct-2016)
3) Prime Suspect 3: Silent Victims (Apr-1994)
4) Murder Mile (Sep-2018)
5) The Dirty Dozen (Aug-2019)
6) Dark Rooms (Aug-2022)

A Lorraine Page Mystery

1) Cold Shoulder (Apr-1996)
2) Cold Blood (Jul-1997)
3) Cold Heart (Mar-1999)

Widows

1) Widows (Sep-2018)
2) Revenge (Feb-2019)
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