Lynda La Plante Books In Order

Dolly Rawlins Books In Publication Order

  1. Widows (1985)
  2. Widows Revenge (1994)
  3. She’s Out (1995)

Legacy Books In Publication Order

  1. The Legacy (1987)
  2. The Talisman (1988)

Jane Tennison Books In Publication Order

  1. Tennison (2015)
  2. Hidden Killers (2017)
  3. Good Friday (2017)
  4. Murder Mile (2018)
  5. The Dirty Dozen (2019)
  6. Blunt Force (2020)
  7. Unholy Murder (2021)

Prime Suspect Books In Publication Order

  1. Prime Suspect (1991)
  2. A Face in the Crowd (1992)
  3. Silent Victims (1993)

Lorraine Page Books In Publication Order

  1. Cold Shoulder (1994)
  2. Cold Blood (1997)
  3. Cold Heart (1998)

Trial and Retribution Books In Publication Order

  1. Trial and Retribution (1997)
  2. Trial and Retribution II (1998)
  3. Trial and Retribution III (1999)
  4. Trial and Retribution IV (2000)
  5. Trial and Retribution V (2002)
  6. Trial and Retribution VI (2002)

Anna Travis Books In Publication Order

  1. Above Suspicion (2004)
  2. The Red Dahlia (2006)
  3. Clean Cut (2007)
  4. Deadly Intent (2008)
  5. Silent Scream (2009)
  6. Blind Fury (2010)
  7. Blood Line (2011)
  8. Backlash (2012)
  9. Wrongful Death (2013)

DC Jack Warr Books In Publication Order

  1. Buried (2020)
  2. Judas Horse (2021)
  3. Vanished (2022)

Standalone Novels In Publication Order

  1. Bella Mafia (1990)
  2. Civvies (1992)
  3. Framed (1992)
  4. Entwined (1992)
  5. Seekers (1993)
  6. Lifeboat (1994)
  7. The Governor (1995)
  8. Sleeping Cruelty (2001)
  9. Royal Flush / Royal Heist (2002)
  10. Twisted (2014)

Short Stories/Novellas In Publication Order

  1. The Little One (2012)
  2. The Escape (2012)

Anthologies In Publication Order

  1. Like a Charm (2004)

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Lynda La Plante Books Overview

Widows Revenge

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 they had presumed dead hangs over them.

The Talisman

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 ‘The Legacy’.

Prime Suspect

Wrongly passed over for promotion, and newly assigned to the Vice Squad, Soho Division, DCI Jane Tennison finds herself thrown in at the deep end of a disturbing case. The charred body of a rent boy has been found, marking the start of an horrific journey into the dark underbelly of society.

A Face in the Crowd

The coroner’s report identifies the body as young, black, female, and impossibly anonymous. Yet one thing is clear to Detective Chief Inspector Jane Tennison about the latest victim discovered in one of London s poorest districts that news of her murder will tear apart a city already crackling with racial tensions, hurling Scotland Yard and Tennison herself into a maelstrom of shocking accusations and sudden, wrenching violence. Even as London s brutal killer remains at large, Tennison remains locked in a struggle to overcome her station house s brutal chauvinism and insidious politicking. And as the department s deeply rooted racism rears its head to overshadow every facet of her new investigation, the trail of her prime suspect is growing colder. Worse, when the details of the beleaguered detective s stormy personal life explode across the headlines of London s sleaziest tabloids, Tennison s already frenzied determination to bring the killer to justice will be catapulted into obsession one that could send her spiraling over the edge.

Silent Victims

Wrongly passed over for promotion, and newly assigned to the Vice Squad, Soho Division, DCI Jane Tennison finds herself thrown in at the deep end of a disturbing case. The charred body of a rent boy has been found, marking the start of an horrific journey into the dark underbelly of society.

Cold Shoulder

Lieutenant Lorraine Page had everything. Impossible to believe that she could be thrown out of the police force and end up on Skid Row. Lorraine’s ex colleagues soon forget her, as the hunt for a nightmare serial killer spirals into an all out search for a missing witness. A victim who escaped and is now on the run…
from her life. Lorraine Page is that witness. Against her will she is drawn into the investigation. Forced to face her past and her overwhelming guilt…
‘Lorraine Page, officer, wife and mother, is as tough as they come’ ‘Sunday Telegraph’. ‘Lynda la Plante once again shows her brilliance’ ‘Daily Express’. ‘Terrifyingly gripping…
don’t read it late at night’ ‘Daily Mail’.

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, La Plante has crafted an intelligent, hard hitting thriller featuring a female lead every bit as compelling and complex as her Prime Suspect hero*ine played by Helen Mirren. Lorraine is a three time loser: an ex LAPD cop, ex hooker, ex wife, even an ex mom, since she has lost custody of her kids. She is recovering from the alcoholism that nearly destroyed her life and, through tremendous force of will, has managed to pull herself back together and set up her own private detective agency in Los Angeles, but she finds that there is scant demand for her services. Finally she lands the high profile case that could activate her new career. The eighteen year old daughter of a fading movie starlet has disappeared during Mardi Gras, and her parents offer Lorraine $1 million if she finds the girl, dead or alive. As the search for the missing girl becomes a deadly murder hunt involving Hollywood rich kids and New Orleans lowlife, Lorraine is caught in a web of deceit and violence that threatens to drag her back into the murky world she has fought so hard to escape. When she finds herself strongly attracted to Robert Caley, the girl’s father who, in turn, is sexually drawn to her she knows she faces a new kind of danger. She begins to spin out of control and turns to her old friend booze for solace. The game gets more dangerous as Lorraine fights demons within and without, but the million dollar bonus is a powerful incentive not to back off a case that would give her the professional respect she craves but could also kill her. Cold Blood reverberates with realism; its plot is multilayered, its characters vibrantly alive just what one would expect from Lynda La Plante, a consummate chronicler of the criminal world.

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 unbeatable storytelling power she brings to her films is the engine that drives her new thriller, Cold Heart, from its disturbing beginning to its shocking climax. A single gunshot into a Beverly Hills swimming pool ends the life of movie mogul Harry Nathan, a man with so many enemies including a widow and two ex wives that the challenge for PI Lorraine Page at first seems to be the surfeit of suspects. Newly established as an independent private investigator, Lorraine comes to the case hungry and determined to succeed but Harry Nathan’s death is the beginning, not the end, of a trail of lust and conspiracy leading to the darkest corners of the international art world. A sordid trail of video evidence implicates other leading Hollywood figures in the case, while Lorraine finds her own investigations hampered by the personal intervention of new police chief Jake Burton, a man who appears to know everything bad about her but still seems determined to know more. As the failures of her past come back to haunt her, Lorraine finds that solving this murder is no longer just a job, it’s about recapturing her own self worth. A first rate crime story, a love story, and more it’s precisely the kind of superior suspense novel we’ve come to expect from Lynda La Plante, one of the preeminent originators of realistic crime drama.

Trial and Retribution

The last in the series and the last of D S Walker, too…
As DI Pat North battles with her first murder enquiry and her fiance DCI Mike Walker strives for promotion, their personal and professional loyalties are tested to the limit. All around them families are ripped apart by violence and everyone discovers just how far they are willing to go to protect the ones they love.

Trial and Retribution IV

Continuing the Trial & Retribution story, James McCready has been granted leave to appeal and suggestions of police misconduct have left their mark. But did DS Michael Walker really frame an innocent man?

Trial and Retribution V

The last in the series and the last of D S Walker, too…
As DI Pat North battles with her first murder enquiry and her fiance DCI Mike Walker strives for promotion, their personal and professional loyalties are tested to the limit. All around them families are ripped apart by violence and everyone discovers just how far they are willing to go to protect the ones they love.

Trial and Retribution VI

The last in the series and the last of D S Walker, too…
As DI Pat North battles with her first murder enquiry and her fiance DCI Mike Walker strives for promotion, their personal and professional loyalties are tested to the limit. All around them families are ripped apart by violence and everyone discovers just how far they are willing to go to protect the ones they love.

Above Suspicion

Young detective Anna Travis has been assigned to her first murder case and it couldn’t be a more shocking, more horrific set of killings. They began eight years earlier; now the body count is up to six. The method of killing is identical, the backgrounds of the girls very similar all of them were drug using prostitutes. Then a seventh body is found, same modus operandi, but this time the victim is a young student, sweet and innocent, with ‘the face of an angel.’ The profile of the murderer has changed dramatically. Anna stumbles on a vital piece of information that links one man to the killings. A household name, a much loved actor who is about to become an international movie star he has plenty of charm and good looks. Denial and protestations of innocence spring easily and confidently to his lips. An arrest, in the face of intense publicity, would create media frenzy. If he was found beyond doubt to be the wrong man, his career would be finished and Anna’s hard fought for reputation in the police force destroyed once and for all. With absolute authenticity and extraordinary power, Lynda La Plante takes us deeper into the criminal mind and the criminal world. And in hero*ine Anna Travis, she has created another memorable and utterly engaging female detective.

The Red Dahlia

Anna Travis and James Langton return, and must work together to capture one of the most terrifying killers they have ever encountered. A young girl is found dumped on the banks of the Thames. Horrifically mutilated and drained of blood, her death is an ominous mirror image of an unsolved 1940s case in Los Angeles known as ‘The Black Dahlia’. Detective Inspector Anna Travis must race against time to catch this copycat killer, dubbed ‘The Red Dahlia‘ from the flower his victim wore in her hair. But there are no suspects and a media frenzy is spiralling out of control. Anna turns to her mentor, the volatile Detective Chief Inspector James Langton, but the frictions of their romantic relationship are complicating the case. As Anna and Langton close in on the prime suspect, they uncover a shocking web of sad*istic sexual evil and a family’s murderous secrets…

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 his frustrations, putting her own life and career on hold. But then one of Anna’s own cases the seemingly motiveless murder of a quiet, studious woman turns out to be linked with Langton’s, and Anna becomes the gang’s next target. As USA Today wrote of La Plante’s Above Suspicion, ‘There is no sugarcoating on this 100 proof police procedural.’

La Plante’s growing legions of fans will not be disappointed.

Deadly Intent

In the latest 100 proof police procedural from lynda la Plante, detective anna Travis must juggle old and new love affairs while tracking down one of the world’s deadliest drug dealers. 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 wanted men in the Western hemisphere. But for ten years, there s been no sign of him. Is he dead, or just trying to appear that way? When an ex colleague from the murder squad is found shot in a dank drug den, Anna Travis is pulled into the case. She s grateful for the distraction after her breakup with DCI Langton, and soon finds herself involved with someone new. But as the bodies pile up and the mystery deepens, Travis and Langton must put aside their personal history and work together to track down one of the canniest criminals they ve ever encountered.

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. The next morning, Amanda’s body is found, stabbed many times, only her beautiful face left unharmed. DI Anna Travis is ordered to the team assigned to the Delany murder, headed by Anna s former lover, the demanding DCI James Langton. Anna is shocked by the truth behind Amanda s public image: her addictions to drugs and starvation diets; her cold, unemotional parents; her elusive film agent; and the former lovers so quick to distance themselves. But Anna has challenges of her own to overcome too. Promotion to Chief Inspector is within her grasp, but when the time comes for her to stand before the board, she faces a shocking accusation of personal misconduct. With insider authenticity derived from La Plante s years in the film world and a hero*ine worthy of her predecessor, Prime Suspect s Jane Tennison, Silent Scream is La Plante s best yet.

Blind Fury

Close to a motorway service station, the body of a young woman is discovered. She appears to have no family, no friends, no one to identify her. DI Anna Travis is brought onto the team of investigators by DCS James Langton, who already suspects that this recent case could be linked to two unsolved murders. As more evidence is discovered the team realise that they are contending with a triple murder investigation and no suspect. Anna’s blood runs cold when she receives a letter from a murderer she helped to arrest. He makes contact from prison insisting that he can track down their killer, but will only talk to Anna herself. Does he really have an insight into another killer’s mind, or is he merely intent on getting into hers?

Backlash

Audio CD, BBC Audiobooks Ltd

Bella Mafia

Don Roberto Luciano turns informer for the biggest Mafia trial in history, but his family pays a terrible price. The head of the family, his three sons, his two grandsons and his nephew are all killed leaving the five widows to reclaim their inheritance from a dangerous Mafioso.

Framed

The author of Prime Suspect brings readers yet another psychological thriller, soon to be a television miniseries starring Timothy Dalton.

Sleeping Cruelty

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 Tory MP Andrew Maynard enters his life, William suddenly finds that he has gained the social status that he has always craved. But when a political scandal erupts around him, William is shunned by the socialites he once called friends, and his reputation is left in tatters. Now the worm is ready to turn…
With the help of the wild and enigmatic Justin Chalmers and his exquisite yet reclusive sister Laura, William’s island paradise will become the scene of his revenge.

Royal Flush / 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 beautiful family and a magnificent fortune, Edward de Jersey is making news with his prized racehorse Royal Flush. But while de Jersey socializes with the cream of English society, he keeps to himself the details of his background and how he acquired his wealth. The son of an East End bookie, de Jersey reinvented himself as an aristocrat after pulling off some of England s most notorious heists. He has no intention of ever going back to crime…
until his financial adviser loses his entire fortune in a disastrous investment and de Jersey decides to retrieve it the old fashioned way: by stealing it. From Monaco to the Hamptons, from London to the shadowy back alleys of cyberspace, de Jersey goes into action, using guile, force, and the latest technology to put together the perfect plan. Drawing on the expertise of a computer hacker with a passion for Elvis, the inside knowledge of a dying aristocrat, and the skill of a professional impersonator, de Jersey is ready to commit his greatest and final crime. He s going to steal the crown jewels from under the nose of the royals themselves. Now, as Royal Flush prepares for a spectacular run at the Derby, de Jersey faces his moment of truth: How much is he willing to risk to win the sport s most coveted prize? And just how far will he go to get away with the perfect crime? A novel that builds to an amazing crescendo of suspense, Royal Heist is a glamorous and gritty tale of men and women bound together by love, greed, trust, and mistrust. With all the pounding excitement of a high stakes horse race, this is fiction that takes hold, doesn t let go, and dares us to keep guessing until the very end. From the Hardcover edition.

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 changes two lives forever…
The hand of fate lies buried in the past…

An unforgettable novel in seventeen parts by some of the most prestigious crime writers working today.

One bracelet, seventeen charms…

From nineteenth century Georgia, where the bracelet is forged in fire, to wartime Leeds, the seedy underside of London’s Soho, a Manhattan taxi, the frozen cliffs of Nova Scotia, and back to Georgia, each writer weaves a gripping story of murder, betrayal, and intrigue.

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