Author's books
Blind Fury (Lynda La Plante) – Preloved Large Paperback
R65,00Anna Travis Book #6
A motorway service station on the M1: dimly lit, run down, poorly supervised, flickering lights, dark corners; a favourite stopover for long-distance lorry drivers on their way up north from London. Behind it, a body is found in a ditch, that of a girl barely out of her teens. She appears to have no family, no friends, no connections anywhere. Other girls have gone missing in the vicinity and no one has stepped forward to claim them. Anna Travis is assigned to the case. Her blood runs cold when she receives a letter from a lifer — someone she was responsible for arresting in the past — who writes to her from prison, asking her to visit him urgently. For he claims he knows who the killer is…
Deadly Intent (Lynda La Plante) – Preloved Large Paperback
R65,00Anna Travis Book #4
Anna Travis is back in a new gripping mystery from Lynda La Plante, featuring the female detective every bit as intelligent, ambitious, and flawed as Prime Suspect’s Jane Tennison.Ruthless drug trafficker Alexander Fitzpatrick is one of the most wanted men in the Western Hemisphere. But for ten years, there’s been no sign of him. Is he dead, or just trying to appear that way? When an ex-colleague from the murder squad is found shot in a dank drug den, Anna Travis is pulled into the case. She’s grateful for the distraction after her breakup with DCI Langton and soon finds herself involved with someone new. But as the bodies pile up and the mystery deepens, Travis and Langton must put aside their personal history and work together to track down one of the canniest criminals they’ve ever encountered.
Royal Flush (Lynda La Plante) – Preloved Large Paperback
R65,00High adventure, furious plotting, blackmail and betrayal…’The Colonel’ is rumoured to have masterminded several of the most successful robberies in the UK over the last forty years. But who is he? Edward de Jersey, now a wealthy man, owns a very successful racing yard and stud farm and his pride and joy is his horse, Royal Flush, who he has always dreamed will one day win the Derby. But de Jersey’s luck runs out when his trusted financial advisor invests his fortune in a fledgling internet company which goes bust, leaving de Jersey with no capital and mounting debts. In danger of losing everything, De Jersey resurrects his criminal past, turning to the internet to find a team of specialists who will help him pull off the most audacious heist in history.
Silent Victims Lynda La Plante (Prime Suspect #3) Preloved Medium Size Paperback
R50,00The 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 to save her future or go after him like an avenging angel, and damn the consequences to hell . . . .
Sleeping Cruelty – Lynda LaPlante – Preloved large paperback
R65,00Politics, scandal and an island paradise. Fabulously wealthy entrepreneur Sir William Benedict has always dreamed of being accepted amongst society’s elite, despite his working class roots.When fast-rising Tory MP Andrew Maynard enters his life, William suddenly finds that he has gained the social status that he has always craved. But when a political scandal erupts around him, William is shunned by the socialites he once called friends, and his reputation is left in tatters. Now the worm is ready to turn.With the help of the wild and enigmatic Justin Chalmers and his exquisite yet reclusive sister Laura, William’s island paradise will become the scene.