The Escape (9 page)

Lynda La Plante

BACKLASH

Two unsolved murders. Three confessions. One suspect.

But is the man in DCI Anna Travis’s custody a serial killer . . . or just a compulsive liar?

It is late at night on a notorious council estate in east London when the police pull over a van. Inside, they discover the body of a young woman.

The driver confesses, not just to one murder – but to three.

Five years earlier, a 13-year-old girl disappeared in broad daylight on a busy London street. The unsolved case has haunted DCS James Langton ever since. But when the case is reopened, it falls to Anna to investigate and bring the killer to trial.

Meanwhile, the murder team is hard at work verifying the details of the van driver’s confessions and desperately trying to uncover the identities of his other victims.

And then he changes his story . . .

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Lynda La Plante

THE LEGACY

For three people, ‘The Legacy’ was a curse . . .

Hugh, a hard-drinking lion of the Welsh valleys. His daughter Evelyne – who lost her heart to a travelling gypsy. And handsome prizefighter Freedom – saved from the gallows to do battle for the heavyweight championship of the world.

From the poverty of the Welsh pit valleys to the glories of the prize ring, from the dangers of Prohibition America to the terrors of Britain at war, Lynda La Plante delves into the lives of a remarkable family and its fortunes, and the curse that forged their names.

‘A torrid tale of love, intrigue and passion’ –
Daily Express

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Lynda La Plante

THE TALISMAN

What will the future hold for a family cursed by its past?

As Gypsy tradition dictates, Freedom Stubbs should have been buried with the gold necklace that he earned as a Heavyweight Boxing Champion. Instead, his wife Evelyne kept it, hoping to sell it for a hefty profit if ever the family were to fall on hard times. As a result, the family is afflicted by a terrible curse.

Freedom’s sons, Edward and Alex, suffer the consequences of their family’s past mistake, as a series of horrifying events fuels the brothers’ lust for justice. Struggling to survive, will they be able to keep their loved ones safe?

From the miseries of war years to the glamorous present, in London, America and South Africa, Lynda La Plante continues the bestselling saga that began with
The Legacy
. The passionate story of a family’s lives and fortunes, and the curse that forged their names . . .

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Lynda La Plante

PRIME SUSPECT

When a prostitute is found murdered in her bedsit, the Metropolitan police set to work finding the perpetrator of this brutal attack. DNA samples lead them straight to George Marlow, a man previously convicted of attempted rape. Everything appears to add up and the police think they’ve found their man, but things aren’t quite what they seem . . .

Detective Chief Inspector Jane Tennison came through the ranks the hard way, opposed and resented at every step by her male colleagues. So when DCI Shefford falls ill, the opportunity for Tennison to get herself noticed finally arrives. But the boys are not happy and every one of her colleagues is willing her to trip up.

Desperate to remove all doubt around her suspect, Tennison struggles to make the charges stick. And then a second body turns up. With the team against her, and a dangerous criminal still on the loose, DCI Jane Tennison must fight to prove herself, now or never.

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Lynda La Plante

PRIME SUSPECT 2:
A FACE IN THE CROWD

The coroner’s report identifies the body as young, black, female and 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 cracking with racial tensions, hurling Scotland Yard and Tennison herself into a maelstrom of shocking accusations and sudden violence.

As London’s ruthless killer remains at large, Tennison is struggling to overcome her station house’s brutal chauvinism and insidious politicking. And as the department’s deeply rooted racism overshadows every facet of her new investigation, the trail of her prime suspect grows colder. Worse, when 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 spiralling over the edge.

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Lynda La Plante

PRIME SUSPECT 3:
SILENT VICTIMS

Chief Detective Inspector Jane Tennison has moved up the ranks, fighting every step of the way to break through the station house’s glass ceiling. Now, on her first day as the head of the Vice Squad, a case comes in that threatens to destroy everything she has worked for.

As Vera Reynolds, drag queen and night club star, swayed onstage singing ‘Falling in Love Again’, a sixteen-year-old rent boy lay in the older man’s apartment, engulfed in flames. When Tennison’s investigation reveals an influential public figure as her prime suspect, a man with connections to politicians, judges and Scotland Yard, she’s given a very clear message about the direction some very important people would like her investigation to take.

Suddenly, in a case defined by murky details, one fact becomes indisputably clear – that for Tennison, going after the truth will mean risking her happiness, her career and even her life.

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Lynda La Plante

SHE’S OUT

They locked her up in Holloway for murder . . . but now that she’s out, she has unfinished business to attend to.

After serving a lengthy sentence for shooting her husband at point blank range, 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 served time with her. They know about the diamonds and they want a cut. Also waiting is a detective sergeant in the Metropolitan Police. He holds her personally responsible for the death of his sister in the diamond raid ten years earlier. And now he wants her back inside.

Dolly Rawlins has other plans: to realise the dream that kept her going for years in prison. But against such determined opposition, the fantasy soon turns into a very different, tragic and violent reality . . .

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