The audio team, Jon Watt and Laura Makela, for bringing my entire backlist to a new audience in audiobooks. Thanks also for giving me my first podcast series, Listening to the Dead, which can be downloaded globally.

Allen and Unwin in Australia and Jonathan Ball in South Africa – thank you for doing such fantastic work with my books.

All the reviewers, journalists, bloggers and broadcasters who interview me, write reviews and promote my books. Thank you for your time and work.

Finally, a huge than you to my readers. Your feedback, messages, and enthusiasm for my characters and books is what keeps me writing.

About the Author

ABOUT THE AUTHOR

Lynda La Plante was born in Liverpool. She trained for the stage at RADA and worked with the National Theatre and RDC before becoming a television actress. She then turned to writing and made her breakthrough with the phenomenally successful TV series Widows. She has written over thirty international novels, all of which have been bestsellers, and is the creator of the Anna Travis, Lorraine Page and the Trial and Retribution series. Her original script for the much-acclaimed Prime Suspect won awards from BAFTA, Emmy, British Broadcasting and Royal Television Society, as well as the 1993 Edgar Allan Poe Award.

Lynda is one of only three screenwriters to have been made an honorary fellow of the British Film Institute and was awarded the BAFTA Dennis Potter Best Writer Award in 2000. In 2008, she was awarded a CBE in the Queen’s Birthday Honours List for services to Literature, Drama and Charity.

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Letter from Author

Dear Reader,

Thank you very much for picking up Blunt Force, the sixth book in the Jane Tennison thriller series. I have loved exploring the beginnings of Jane’s police career and how she became the strong woman we know from the Prime Suspect series. I have also been delighted by the response I have had from readers who were curious to find out more about the early days of her career. I hope you enjoyed reading the book as much as I enjoyed writing it.

In Blunt Force, Jane has been unceremoniously kicked off the adrenaline-fuelled Flying Squad after the events of The Dirty Dozen. Now working at a quiet police station in Knightsbridge, she finds herself relegated to solving petty crimes and desperate for a case she can get her teeth into. That is, until she discovers that big-time theatrical agent Charlie Foxley has been found viciously beaten to death with a cricket bat, dismembered and disembowelled. Suddenly Jane is thrust into the salacious world of show business, with a brutal murder to solve – and a chance to prove herself as the smart, skilled officer she is. I enjoyed exploring how Jane deals with a hit to her policing career and manages to prove herself once again in a society where women often struggled to climb the career ladder.