Blind Fury - Softcover

La Plante, Lynda

Softcover

ISBN 10: 184739647X ISBN 13: 9781847396471

Publisher: Simon & Schuster UK, 2011

Synopsis

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?

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Review:

Fans of Lynda La Plante are well aware that her books waste no time in grabbing the reader’s attention, right from the first paragraph (she performed a similar feat on television with the Prime Suspect TV films, and proved that she could pull off the trick in her novels). With her new book, Blind Fury, all such things are in place, as usual – you'll find you're firmly in that comforting (if unsettling) La Plante grip.

LaPlante’s heroine DI Anna Travis is used to pressure -- being a woman in authority in the police force is never easy, and her ex-lover and boss DCS James Langton (from whom she’s unsuccessfully tried to steer clear in the past) has brought her into a team of investigators with a difficult case. Near a motorway service station, a young woman’s body is found, and Anna and Langton’s team come to realise that they have a triple murder investigation on their hands. But then Anna is contacted by a murderer she had helped to bring to book – he is prepared to talk to her – and only to her. Is this sinister figure to be her entrée into the mind of another killer?

No nuances here – just straightforwardly gripping LaPlante fare. What makes Blind Fury so readable, though, is not the briskly-delivered narrative or even the characterisation of the always believable Anna Travis; it is the treatment of the villain, playing grim mind games with Anna. Cut from a familiar cloth, perhaps, and the shades of Hannibal Lecter and Clarice Starling are never far away (La Plante is a dedicated Thomas Harris admirer), but who cares? This is sterling stuff. --Barry Forshaw

Review:

"Gripping...Increasingly complex." --"PublishersWeekly.com"

"Lynda La Plante practically invented the thriller." -Karin Slaughter, author of Broken

"Masterful writing, a superbly crafted plot, nail-biting suspense." --"Booklist" (starred review), on "Deadly Intent"""

"La Plante has created another damaged heroine almost as appealing as her inimitable Jane Tennison." --"Publishers Weekly", on "Clean Cut"

"For those who love mysteries but wish Patricia Cornwell had a dirtier mind." --"Los Angeles Times", ""on" Above Suspicion"

"The quintessential police procedural, with a flawed heroine and enough dark twists to keep even the seasoned mystery fan off balance. A must for fans of British cop stories." -"Booklist"

"This tear-away thriller will keep you awake at night, prying your closing eyes open with toothpicks, to get to the next clue....A rip-roaring, can't-put-it-down read." -"Suspense "magazine

About this edition

• Publisher: Simon & Schuster UK
• Publication date: 2011
• ISBN 10: 184739647X
• ISBN 13: 9781847396471
• Binding: Paperback
• Number of pages: 544