Backlash: An Anna Travis Detective Mystery Where One Confession Opens Three Murder Investigations in London (Anna Travis Series, 8)

Backlash: An Anna Travis Detective Mystery Where One Confession Opens Three Murder Investigations in London (Anna Travis Series, 8)

Award-winning and international bestselling author Lynda La Plante returns with the eighth installment in her acclaimed series featuring London's Detective Chief Inspector Anna Travis. Late night on a notorious high-rise estate in the borough of Hackney. A woman on the street never makes it home after a long night of drinking. A white van is being driven erratically. The driver is pulled over by the police and questioned. A suspect . . . an arrest . . . a confession. Case closed? Five years earlier, a thirteen-year-old girl disappeared in broad daylight on a busy London street. Detective Chief Superintendent James Langton headed the investigation; the case was never solved. It has haunted him ever since. And now comes another confession, to this murder, and to one more besides. But is it too good to be true? After being pulled into the fray, Anna Travis isn't so sure that they have their man. Then the suspect changes his story. . . . Being questioned after a dead woman is found in the van he was driving, Henry Oates confesses to several other murders, including that of 13-year-old Rebekka Jordan. On bed rest after knee surgery, Superintendent James Langton asks Detective Chief Inspector Anna Travis to handle the Jordan investigation. Oates soon recants his confession, and Travis must try to connect the dots between Oates and a string of missing young women. Between Langton’s micromanaging and unreliable information from Oates’ ex-wife and acquaintances, Travis’ exhaustion and impatience is palpable. In this eighth entry in the Anna Travis series, La Plante offers another fine blend of police procedural and gritty thriller. --Karen Keefe “Lynda La Plante practically invented the thriller.” - Karin Slaughter, author of Fallen and Broken “Fun, fearsome and fiercely independent.” - Sunday Telegraph “In this eighth entry in the Anna Travis series, La Plante offers another fine blend of police procedural and gritty thriller.” - Booklist ““Well-crafted. . . . A lively plot and a number of satisfying revelations. . . .” - Publishers Weekly “It contains some nice twists, and the character of Travis continues to evolve and grow in complexity.” - Booklist Award-winning and international bestselling author Lynda La Plante returns with the eighth installment in her acclaimed series featuring London's Detective Chief Inspector Anna Travis. Late night on a notorious high-rise estate in the borough of Hackney. A woman on the street never makes it home after a long night of drinking. A white van is being driven erratically. The driver is pulled over by the police and questioned. A suspect . . . an arrest . . . a confession. Case closed? Five years earlier, a thirteen-year-old girl disappeared in broad daylight on a busy London street. Detective Chief Superintendent James Langton headed the investigation; the case was never solved. It has haunted him ever since. And now comes another confession, to this murder, and to one more besides. But is it too good to be true? After being pulled into the fray, Anna Travis isn't so sure that they have their man. Then the suspect changes his story. . . . 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.