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Chapters (41)
  1. Cover
  2. Dedication
  3. Chapter One
  4. Chapter Two
  5. Chapter Three
  6. Chapter Four
  7. Chapter Five
  8. Chapter Six
  9. Chapter Seven
  10. Chapter Eight
  11. Chapter Nine
  12. Chapter Ten
  13. Chapter Eleven
  14. Chapter Twelve
  15. Chapter Thirteen
  16. Chapter Fourteen
  17. Chapter Fifteen
  18. Chapter Sixteen
  19. Chapter Seventeen
  20. Chapter Eighteen
  21. Chapter Nineteen
  22. Chapter Twenty
  23. Chapter Twenty-One
  24. Chapter Twenty-Two
  25. Chapter Twenty-Three
  26. Chapter Twenty-Four
  27. Chapter Twenty-Five
  28. Chapter Twenty-Six
  29. Chapter Twenty-Seven
  30. Chapter Twenty-Eight
  31. Chapter Twenty-Nine
  32. Chapter Thirty
  33. Chapter Thirty-One
  34. Chapter Thirty-Two
  35. Chapter Thirty-Three
  36. Chapter Thirty-Four
  37. Chapter Thirty-Five
  38. Chapter Thirty-Six
  39. About the Author
  40. Lynda La Plante Reader’s Club
  41. Letter from the author

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Lynda La Plante Reader’s Club

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Letter from the author

Dear Reader,

Thank you very much for picking up The Dirty Dozen, the fifth novel in the Jane Tennison thriller series. I’ve been so pleased by the response I’ve had from the many 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, and I hope you have enjoyed reading this book as much as I enjoyed writing it.

In The Dirty Dozen, Jane has started a new job in the Sweeney – a boys’ club who dub themselves ‘the Dirty Dozen’. Throughout her policing career, Jane, like many other women in the 1980s, has faced barriers to climbing the career ladder, and these difficulties are what have helped her to become the tough woman she is at the beginning of the book. The Sweeney is a whole different ballgame, though, and Jane really struggles to prove herself, before eventually being instrumental in taking down the criminals. As I’ve consistently said, I very much enjoy writing strong female protagonists, and it’s been wonderful to have the opportunity to keep delving into Jane’s story and to see her going from strength to strength in her policing career.

If you enjoyed The Dirty Dozen, then please do read the first four novels in the Jane Tennison series, Tennison, Hidden Killers, Murder Mile and Good Friday, which are now available in paperback and ebook. There is also a lot more going on. I reworked my first ever novel, Widows, which was published in 2018, and was also turned into a major feature film written by Steve McQueen. I followed this up with Widows’ Revenge. The third book in the series, She’s Out, will be publishing later this year. I’m now working on a whole new series, a spin off from Widows, with a central character who has really taken hold of my imagination. The first book in the new series will be coming in 2020 and I’m looking forward to revealing more in due course.