Lynda La Plante Livres

À Palerme, le juge Emanuel rencontre Don Roberto Luciano : il a accepté de témoigner contre le mafioso Paul Carolla dont le procès va s'ouvrir. Il y a plus de vingt ans, Carolla a assassiné Michael, l'un des fils de Luciano, parce que celui-ci refusait de se livrer au trafic de la drogue. À l'issue de cette entrevue, Don Roberto s'apprête à célébrer le mariage de sa petite-fille Rosa avec son neveu Emilio. Mais il est assassiné, avec tous les hommes de sa famille, par un clan rival. Seules sont épargnées ses belles-filles Sophia et Teresa, la jeune Rosa et Graziella, l'épouse de Don Roberto. Sous l'égide de cette mama de choc, elles vont défendre par tous les moyens, de Palerme jusqu'à New York, l'héritage de Don Roberto. Comme beaucoup d'histoires inspirées par la Mafia, ce roman (qui fait penser au célèbre Parrain de Mario Puzo) possède un charme particulier malgré la noirceur de son sujet et une certaine absence de moralité. Lynda La Plante, révélée avec sa série consacrée à la détective privée Lorraine Page (Sang froid), met en scène un clan féminin qui, jusqu'alors tenu dans l'ignorance des activités de la famille, va découvrir un milieu violent et meurtrier avec la nécessité de l'affronter avec les mêmes armes afin de survivre. --Claude Mesplède

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 Inspector Jane Tennison, this is the perfect opportunity to get herself noticed. But when every one of her colleagues is willing her to trip up, and the case is far from clear cut, will she be able to prove her mettle. PRIME SUSPECT 2: 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 DCI Jane Tennison - 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, wrenching violence. PRIME SUSPECT 3: SILENT VICTIMS As Vera Reynolds, drag queen and night club star, sways onstage singing, a sixteen-year-old rent boy lies in the older man's apartment, engulfed in flames. For DCI Jane Tennison, now head of the Vice Squad, this high-profile case threatens to destroy the career she fought so hard for. **Lynda La Plante's Widows is now a major motion picture**

The astonishing new Detective Jack Warr thriller from the Sunday Times bestselling author of BURIED, JUDAS HORSE and VANISHED.

Widows made Lynda La Plante a household name in television. Now comes the novel based on its gripping sequel...

Three thieves' widows decide to continue their late husbands' latest burglary.

The 30th Anniversary edition of the sequel to Lynda La Plante's original bestseller, The Legacy

THE INTERNATIONAL BESTSELLER! "FOR THOSE WHO LOVE MYSTERIES BUT WISH THAT PATRICIA CORNWELL HAD A DIRTIER MIND,"* the author of Above Suspicion and the acclaimed Prime Suspect series returns with a new mystery. 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 Black Dahlia murder in 1940s Los Angeles. Now Detective Inspector Anna Travis must race against time to catch this copycat killer. She turns to her mentor, the brilliant and volatile Detective Chief Inspector James Langton, but the frictions of their romantic relationship are complicating the case. And then a second girl is found...

The drag queen named Vera Reynolds swayed on-stage singing "Falling in Love Again."  And a sixteen-year-old boy lay in Vera's fire-engulfed apartment . . . very, very dead.  He was a "rent boy," a sex-for-hire street kid who catered to the tastes of special customers.  It was the kind of murder Soho's Vice Squad saw often.  But the influential do-gooder who was a prime suspect in this one made the young boy's death different--a ticking bomb able to blast open the nasty, secret lives of politicians, judges . . . and cops.  Detective Jane Tennison had moved up the career ladder through sheer guts and an unstoppable passion for justice.  Now, on her first day as the head of the Vice Squad, she caught a case threatening to wreck her career.  She had been told whom to arrest--and whom to back off from-in the murder of the "rent boy."  And she couldn't go with the program.  She knew a destroyer of children was out there.  She knew she had a choice:  to save her future or go after him like an avenging angel, and damn the consequences to hell . . . .

From the creator of the award-winning ITV series Prime Suspect, this is Jane Tennison's story, from rookie police officer to fully-fledged detective.

The murder of a young single mother begins a police enquiry that spirals into a hunt for a serial killer. How much evidence do you need to convict a guilty man; and how much fear can be instilled to make an innocent one plead guilt?