Wrongful Death: An Anna Travis Novel

by Lynda La Plante

Overview

London’s Detective Chief Inspector Anna Travis must decide where her loyalties lie, duty to the job or personal ambition, in this masterful tale of suspense from the award-winning, international bestselling author of the Prime Suspect series—one of today’s finest crime writers, alongside such talents as Sophie Hannah, Ruth Rendell, Kate Atkinson, and Ian Rankin.

Six months ago, London nightclub owner Josh Reynolds was found dead. Ruled a suicide, the police investigation was closed. Then a young man, awaiting trial for armed robbery, tells his guards that Reynolds was murdered, and that he has information to share.

DCI Anna Travis is scheduled to leave for training at Quantico, as part of an exchange between the Met and the FBI. But before she can leave, she’s got to review the case thanks to her boss, DCS James Langton. Joining her team is senior FBI agent and crime scene expert Jessie Dewar.

The American’s brash manner quickly ruffles feathers throughout the Met, and what should have been a simple matter of tying up loose ends becomes a political powder keg when the competence of the original investigation team is challenged. Suddenly, Anna is faced with a dangerous choice. Will she close ranks to protect her people, or push to find the truth no matter what the consequences?

Product Details

ISBN-13:	9780062355935
Publisher:	HarperCollins Publishers
Publication date:	01/06/2015
Series:	Anna Travis Series , #9
Pages:	512
Product dimensions:	5.20(w) x 7.90(h) x 1.20(d)

About the Author

Lynda La Plante's novels, including the Prime Suspect series, have all been international bestsellers. She is an honorary fellow of the British Film Institute and a recipient of the British Academy of Film and Television Arts (BAFTA) Dennis Potter Writers Award. Awarded a CBE, she is a member of the UK Crime Writers Awards Hall of Fame. She lives in London.

Editorial Reviews

11/10/2014
In La Plante’s convoluted ninth Anna Travis novel (after 2013’s Backlash), the English detective chief inspector takes charge of re-examining the months-old suicide of Joshua Reynolds, a London nightclub owner, after a man arrested for assaulting a police officer claims that it’s a case of murder. Setting aside plans to take an FBI course in Quantico, Va., Anna teams with Jessie Dewar, a hotshot FBI agent who’s in Europe doing research for a doctorate in forensic psychology. Anna and Jessie don’t see eye-to-eye, but a bigger problem arises when the competence of the officers who initially investigated Reynolds’s death comes into question. Revelations follow rapidly amid copious detail, both about the investigation and the characters’ thoughts and personal lives. Some readers may be jarred by British expressions emerging from American mouths, such as Don Blane, an FBI agent, saying, “Transport is just outside.” Not bloody likely. Agent: Gill Coleridge, Rogers, Coleridge & White (U.K.). (Jan.)

Publishers Weekly

The mistress of suspense . . . a superb storyteller.”-Daily Express (UK)

Daily Express (UK)

01/01/2015
DCI Anna Travis is ready to head to Quantico, VA, for a training exchange; however, she has one last case to follow up on. This involves information from a man on trial that the death of London nightclub owner Josh Reynolds, ruled a suicide six months ago, was actually a murder. Instead of a quick wrap-up, Anna finds problems with the way the original investigation team handled it, and her exchange replacement, senior FBI agent Jesse Dewar, is making more enemies than friends at the Metropolitan Police. With her flight to Quantico approaching, Anna must choose between uncovering the truth of Reynolds's death or protecting her people. VERDICT In her latest outing after Backlash (first published in the UK in 2013), Anna Travis is now a seasoned investigator and willing to go to whatever lengths necessary for her job. Once again La Plante delivers a quality and complex police procedural.

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