Blunt Force

By Lynda La Plante

Book Overview

From Lynda La Plante, the international bestselling author who "practically invented the thriller," (Karin Slaughter) comes a brilliant new page-turner that follows Jane Tennison into the salacious world of theatre to solve a brutal murder in the heart of London's West End

Things can't get much worse for detective Jane Tennison. Unceremoniously kicked off the adrenaline-fuelled Flying Squad, she now plies her trade in Gerald Road, a small and sleepy police station in the heart of London's affluent Knightsbridge.

With only petty crime to sink her teeth into, Tennison can feel her career slowly flatlining. That is until the discovery of the most brutal murder Jane has ever seen: Charlie Foxley has been found viciously beaten to death with a cricket bat - his body dismembered and disembowelled.

As a big-time theatrical agent, Foxley had a lot of powerful friends - but just as many enemies. And alongside her old friend DS Spencer Gibbs, Tennison must journey into the salacious world of show business to find out which one is the killer, before they strike again.

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 1499862474
• ISBN13: 9781499862478
• Release Date: August 2020
• Publisher: Zaffre
• Length: 448 Pages
• Weight: 0.76 lbs.
• Dimensions: 1.0" x 5.1" x 7.9"

Customer Reviews

Jane is a good detective!

I had read another book about Jane Tennison and so I was interested in what her newest adventure was. Jane had been kicked off the Flying Squad and was stuck at another quiet station dealing with mostly petty crime (while also going to a shooting range to try and fix her weakness in freezing when a gun was pointed at her) when Charles Foxley ends up brutally murdered. There is much confusion as to motive and suspects though I did enjoy Charles three dogs that kept showing up as no one wanted to deal with them. That was quite funny. Spencer is also a major character in this novel, also demoted due to some mistakes (throwing a punch at a traffic cop) and is trying to solve this case with Jane. He annoyed me a little due to his temper but he seems to be a good friend to Jane. Both of them did a good job of figuring out what had happened (no thanks to the three special detectives that had a hand in the case). It was a sad ending though and not what I expected. I liked the book up till the end and would not mind reading more books with Jane in them.