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 Unholy Murder, the seventh book in the Tennison series. I hope you enjoyed reading the book as much as I enjoyed writing it.

Throughout the series, Jane Tennison has solved many kinds of mysteries, but in Unholy Murder I wanted to present her with a different kind of challenge – solving a murder which was committed almost two decades ago. Faced with a situation where those involved in the crime may be untraceable, unwell, or no longer alive, not to mention the challenges of investigating a crime under the watchful eye of a powerful institution, Jane finds herself having to think outside of the box. I enjoyed exploring the different forensic technologies that would have been available to her in the 1980s, and how she would use the information they provided along with her detective’s instincts to follow the trail to the truth.

If you enjoyed Unholy Murder, 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, early next year sees the publication of the next book in my new series featuring DC Jack Warr, in which Jack finds himself embroiled in an international drugs operation, art theft – and a murder investigation . . .

The first two books in the Jack Warr series, Buried and Judas Horse, are available now. And if you want to catch up with the Tennison series, the first six novels – Tennison, Hidden Killers, Good Friday, Murder Mile, The Dirty Dozen and Blunt Force – are all available to buy in paperback, ebook and audio. 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.