With the team against her, and a dangerous criminal still on the loose, DCI Jane Tennison must fight to prove herself, now or never. Jane Timoney, an iconoclastic female detective, must make her bones in a tough New York precinct that is dominated by men. Lynda La Plantes new book, Tennison, is out. Formerly an actor, Lynda broke through as a writer in 1983. Desperate to remove all doubt around her suspect, Tennison struggles to make the charges stick. Prime Suspect: Created by Alexandra Cunningham, Lynda La Plante. Lynda La Plantes Tennison: the Queen of Crimes prequel to Prime Suspect. She is perhaps best known as the writer and creator of the Prime Suspect television crime series. But the boys are not happy and every one of her colleagues is willing her to trip up. Read more DCI Shefford falls ill, the opportunity for Tennison to get herself noticed finally arrives. Detective Chief Inspector Jane Tennison came through the ranks the hard way, opposed and resented at every step by her male colleagues. The police think they've found their man, but things are not quite what they seem. DNA samples lead them straight to George Marlow, a man previously convicted of attempted rape. From the BAFTA-winning writer behind the TV series PRIME SUSPECT and author of WIDOWS, now a major motion picture When a prostitute is found murdered in her bedsit, the Metropolitan police set to work finding the perpetrator of this brutal attack. Introducing on the page Jane Tennison, the only female DCI on a ruthless homicide squad, star of one of the UK's most successful TV cop dramas ever Num Pages: 352 pages.

Prime Suspect by Lynda La Plante