Description
Lynda Laxa0Plantexa0was born in Liverpool. She is the author of nearly forty novels, all of which have been bestsellers. She trained for the stage atxa0RADAxa0and worked with the National theatre andxa0RDCxa0before becoming a television actress. She then turned toxa0writing—andxa0made her breakthrough with the phenomenally successful TV series Widows . Lynda's original script for the much-acclaimed Prime Suspect won awards fromxa0BAFTA,xa0Emmys, British Broadcasting and Royal Television Society as well as the 1993 Edgar Allan Poe Award. Lynda is an honorary fellow of the British Film Institute and was awarded thexa0BAFTAxa0Dennis Potter Best Writer's Award in 2000. In 2008, she was awarded axa0CBExa0in the Queen's Birthday Honours List for services to Literature, Drama and Charity. Lynda Laxa0Plantexa0is the first lay person to be awarded an honorary fellowship to the Forensic Science Society. In 2020 she launched the acclaimed Listening to the Dead podcastxa0with formerxa0CSIxa0Cass Sutherland, exploring forensic science and its impact on solving crimes.
Features & Highlights
- 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's renowned Flying Squad, commonly known as the 'Sweeney'. Based at Rigg Approach in East London, they investigate armed robberies on banks, cash in transit and other business premises. Jane thinks her transfer is on merit and is surprised to discover she is actually part of a short term internal experiment, intended to have a calming influence on a team that likes to dub themselves as the 'Dirty Dozen'. The men on the squad don't think a woman is up to the dangers they face when dealing with some of London's most ruthless armed criminals, who think the only 'good cop' is a dead cop. Determined to prove she's as good as the men, Jane discovers from a reliable witness that a gang is going to carry out a massive robbery involving millions of pounds. But she doesn't know who they are, or where and when they will strike . . .
