Lynda La Plante was born in Liverpool. She trained for the stage at RADA and worked with the National Theatre and RSC 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 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 Judas Horse, the second book in my new series featuring DC Jack Warr. I hope you enjoyed reading the book as much as I enjoyed writing it.

Jack is a character who has really taken hold of my imagination and I have loved returning to him in this new instalment in the series. He is a complex character who is still figuring out exactly who he wants to be. In Judas Horse, he is learning to navigate the challenges of new fatherhood alongside his career in the police force. This also allowed me to explore Jack’s feelings about his own parents, and how he is shaped by both his biological father, Harry Rawlins, and Charlie Warr, the kind-hearted man who raised him.

If you enjoyed Judas Horse, then please do keep an eye out for news about the next book in the series, which will be coming soon. And in the meantime, later this year sees the publication of the next book in my Jane Tennison series, Unholy Murder, in which Jane must lift the lid on the most chilling murder case of her career to date . . .

The first six novels in the series, Tennison, Hidden Killers, Good Friday, Murder Mile, The Dirty Dozen and Blunt Force are all available in paperback, ebook and audio now. I’ve been so pleased by the response I’ve had from the amany readers who have been curious about the beginnings of Jane’s police career. It’s been great fun for me to explore how she became the woman we know in middle and later life from the Prime Suspect series.