Lynda La Plante

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  • Bibliography:
    57 Books (5 Series)
  • First Book:
    April 1985
  • Latest Book:
    March 2026
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Full 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)
4 - Pure Evil (Apr-2023)

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)

Book List in Order: 57 titles

  • 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...

  • Bella Mafia

  • Prime Suspect

    Jane Tennison - 1

    A dark and riveting race against the clock, Prime Suspect is an unforgettable introduction to this bestselling series from Edgar Award-winning and internationally bestselling author Lynda La Plante.The moment Jane Tennison takes over Scotla...

  • Prime Suspect 2: A Face in the Crowd

    Jane Tennison - 2

    The fast-paced follow up to Lynda La Plante’s first Prime Suspect thriller, Prime Suspect 2: A Face in the Crowd, reunites readers with Detective Chief Inspector Jane Tennison as she hunts down a mysterious killer hidden amidst London’s...

  • Entwined

  • Framed

  • Prime Suspect 3: Silent Victims

    Jane Tennison - 3

    In Prime Suspect 3, internationally bestselling author Lynda La Plante’s no-nonsense detective, Jane Tennison, takes on the most insidious nemesis she’s ever faced -- her own mounting obsessions. Determined to bring justice to...

  • Cold Shoulder

    A Lorraine Page Mystery - 1

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

  • 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 w...



  • Cold Blood

    A Lorraine Page Mystery - 2

    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...

  • Trial & Retribution

    A FULLY REVISED AND EDITED EDITION OF THE CLASSIC INSPIRED BY THE HIT, LONG-RUNNING TV SERIES STARRING DAVID HAYMANIt is every mother's nightmare. Her missing daughter found murdered. Her lover the prime suspect.It is every police officer's fear. A c...

  • Cold Heart

    A Lorraine Page Mystery - 3

    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 and Retribution VI

    THE UNMISSABLE SERIES OPENER FROM THE QUEEN OF CRIME DRAMAIt is every mother's nightmare. Her missing daughter found murdered. Her lover the prime suspect. It is every police officer's fear. A child murder. The evidence circumstantial. It is every ro...

  • 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...

  • 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 ...

  • Above Suspicion

    An Anna Travis Mystery - 1

    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...

  • The Red Dahlia

    An Anna Travis Mystery - 2

    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...

  • Clean Cut

    An Anna Travis Mystery - 3

    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...



  • Deadly Intent

    An Anna Travis Mystery - 4

    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 ...

  • Silent Scream

    An Anna Travis Mystery - 5

    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. ...

  • Blind Fury

    An Anna Travis Mystery - 6

    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...

  • The Little One

  • She's Out

    After serving a lengthy sentence for the murder of her husband, Dolly Rawlins is free from prison. And she’s only got one thing on her mind: the diamonds she stashed before the police caught her. But there are people waiting for Dolly on the o...

  • Blood Line

    An Anna Travis Mystery - 7

    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 ...

  • Backlash

    An Anna Travis Mystery - 8

    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...

  • 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...

  • Wrongful Death

    An Anna Travis Mystery - 9

    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...

  • Twisted



  • 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...

  • Tennison

    1973.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 struggles to deal with the shocking situations she faces, receiving...

  • Hidden Killers

    Jane Tennison - 2

    Jane 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 experienced detectives move swiftly from one criminal case to the ...

  • Good Friday

    Before Prime Suspect there was Tennison - this was 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...

  • 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...

  • 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...

  • Murder Mile

    Jane Tennison - 4

    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 seri...

  • Widows

    Widows - 1

    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.Before PRIME SUSPECT there was WIDOWS . . . Facing life alone, they turned to crime together. Dolly Rawlins, L...

  • Revenge

    Widows - 2

    The sequel to Lynda La Plante's groundbreaking thriller, Widows - now a major feature film.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 ...

  • The Dirty Dozen

    Jane Tennison - 5

    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 t...



  • 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...

  • Buried

    Jack Warr - 1

    The first book in a brand-new series by Lynda La Plante, the international bestselling author who "practically invented the thriller." (Karin Slaughter)Millions of stolen, untraceable bank notes lie untouched in an old Victorian cottage, the hid...

  • Blunt Force

    From Lynda La Plante, the international bestselling author who "practically invented the thriller," (Karin Slaughter) comes a brilliant new page-turner that follows Jane Tennison into the salacious world of theatre to solve a brutal murder in th...

  • Judas Horse

    Jack Warr - 2

    SOME KILLERS CAN'T BE TAMED . . .The brand new Detective Jack Warr thriller from the Queen of Crime Drama, Lynda La Plante - now available in hardback, eBook and audiobook.__________________'Do you know what a Judas Horse is? When the wild mustangs a...

  • Unholy Murder

    Detective Jane Tennison must lift the lid on the most chilling murder case of her career -- in this brand new thriller from Lynda La Plante, the international bestselling author who "practically invented the thriller." (...

  • Dark Rooms

    Jane Tennison - 6

    The edge-of-your-seat new thriller from bestselling author, Lynda La Plante.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 with...

  • Vanished

    Jack Warr - 3

    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...

  • Pure Evil

    Jack Warr - 4

    The astonishing new Detective Jack Warr thriller from the Sunday Times bestselling author of BURIED, JUDAS HORSE and VANISHED.It was supposed to be a simple case: a young man arrested for armed assault. But it was just the beginning. As Rodney Middle...

  • A Taste of Blood

    Detective Jane Tennison made a bad choice. She was the one who put in a transfer to the quiet, local police station in Bromley, keen to escape the relentless pressure of her former West End department. Now she regrets her decision. The tedium of pett...

  • Alibi

    THE UNFORGETTABLE LEGAL THRILLER FROM THE QUEEN OF CRIME DRAMAIdentical and brutal assaults on three women. One woman survives to give a detailed description of her attacker. The police arrest a suspect, Damon Morton, confident he is their man. But ...



  • Whole Life Sentence

    Lynda La Plante's final Tennison crime novel, bringing readers up to the point at which the famous television series Prime Suspect began.Newly promoted Detective Chief Inspector Jane Tennison has elbowed her way into the Area Major Incident Pool, or ...

  • Accused

    THE ACCLAIMED LEGAL THRILLER FROM THE QUEEN OF CRIME DRAMA...

  • Crucified

    The fifth book in Lynda's brilliant Detective Jack Warr crime series. Detective Jack Warr is haunted by the gruesome legacy of serial killer Rodney Middleton and reeling from a series of events that has left him deep in depression. Refusing the Met-o...

  • Lynda New Series 1

  • Appeal

    THE UNFORGETTABLE LEGAL THRILLER FROM THE QUEEN OF CRIME DRAMA, LYNDA LA PLANTEEight years ago, James McCready was convicted of killing his partner, Gary Meadows. But McCready has always claimed that the stabbing was a tragic accident and, when fresh...

  • Royal Flush

    • / General Fiction
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  • Sleeping Cruelty

    • / General Fiction
    • Buy Buy

    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
    • Buy Buy

    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...

Frequently Asked Questions (FAQ)

Lynda La Plante has published 57 books.

The next book by Lynda La Plante, Appeal, will be published in March 2026.

The first book by Lynda La Plante, Widows II, was published in April 1985.

Yes. Lynda La Plante has 5 series.
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