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Dedicated, intuitive, and utterly obsessive, DCI James Langton is ruthless in his pursuit of a gang of illegal immigrants, the murderers of a young prostitute. When one of them nearly kills him, Anna Travis nurses his wounds and bears the brunt of his frustrations, putting her own life and career on hold. But then one of Anna's own cases -- the seemingly motiveless murder of a quiet, studious woman -- turns out to be linked with Langton's, and Anna becomes the gang's next target. As USA Today wrote of La Plante's Above Suspicion, "There is no sugarcoating on this 100-proof police procedural."
La Plante's growing legions of fans will not be disappointed.
- Sales Rank: #1061108 in Books
- Brand: La Plante, Lynda
- Published on: 2008-09-30
- Released on: 2008-09-30
- Original language: English
- Number of items: 1
- Dimensions: 8.00" h x 1.20" w x 5.25" l, .81 pounds
- Binding: Paperback
- 432 pages
From Publishers Weekly
In La Plante's solid third police procedural to feature London Det. Insp. Anna Travis (after 2007's The Red Dahlia), Anna's lover and superior, Det. Chief Insp. Jimmy Langton, is knifed while investigating the murder of a young prostitute. As Anna helps him recuperate, Jimmy becomes obsessed with catching his assailant, rumored to be Clinton Camorra, a notorious drug trafficker and voodoo practitioner. Anna discovers another link to Camorra's gang of illegal immigrants in one of her own murder cases, the apparently motiveless killing of a woman by Arthur George Murphy, who also practices voodoo. After Arthur's sister and niece are murdered and another niece and nephew disappear, Anna suspects that not only is Camorra behind the crimes but that she may be the next target. Though her stance on illegal immigration is sometimes too strident for the story to support, La Plante has created another damaged heroine almost as appealing as her inimitable Jane Tennison. (Oct.)
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From Booklist
Detective Anna Travis is back in another suspenseful crime drama. She and her boss, James Langton, are lovers, a fact they try to keep quiet, but when James is knifed during a murder investigation, and Anna spends time at his bedside, the relationship becomes public. Later, with James determined to find the man who nearly killed him, the team is temporarily distracted by another murder investigation, which, naturally, turns out to be connected to James’ knifing. Despite that tired convention, La Plante’s latest boasts a suspense-filled plot with devilish twists and an interestingly flawed hero and heroine. Another strong series entry from Prime Suspect scriptwriter La Plante. --Emily Melton
About the Author
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.
Her novels have all been international bestsellers. Her original script for the much-acclaimed Prime Suspect won awards from BAFTA, British Broadcasting and the Royal Television Society as well as the 1993 Edgar Allan Poe Award.
Lynda La Plante was made an honorary fellow of the British Film Institute and was given the BAFTA Dennis Potter Award in 2000. She was awarded a CBE in the Queen’s Birthday Honours list in 2008 and was inaugurated into the Crime Thriller Writers’ Hall of Fame in 2009.
Visit Lynda at her website: www.lyndalaplante.com
Twitter: @LaPlanteLynda
www.facebook.com/LyndaLaPlanteCBE
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1 of 3 people found the following review helpful.
Book reflects the unfortunate bigotry and zenophobia of England today
By Fox in a Box
I tried to reduce the stars to four but found that the system will not let me.
I found this to be the most intriguing and well-written of Lynda LaPlante's Anna Travis police procedurals. I will not get into the plot except to say that her reaction to her lover's possible involvement in the murder of an admittedly evil suspect is chilling and realistic.
To love someone, nearly lose him, then "lose" him again in a particularly creepy way is disturbing in the extreme. Anna's crawling skin is palpable.
Much has been written here about the bigotry expressed by some of the characters toward immigrants, particularly those of color.
It is true that language is brutal, endless and in some respects vicious. It also is generalized from murderous drug dealers, slavers, child predators and other menacing types to all of the many immigrants flooding into England and allegedly consuming its limited resources. Furthermore, the murders themselves are so disgusting as to cast further aspersions on the humanity of these criminals. Surely they are not as good as us. How COULD they be?
Fair to say that we read of such atrocity in such places as Darfur and Congo, from whence these guys came. But it is also fair to say that there are far more victims in those nations than there are murderers, something LaPlante and her surly cops might keep in mind, along with the level of brutality demonstrated by the colonial British when the opportunity arose.
The author can be faulted for failing to slip a more reasoned voice into the mix. Instead, fellow cops are all but silent, if annoyed, in the face of bigotry that curdles the milk and must at times compromise their police work and possibly put their own lives, and those of their peers, in danger.
Immigrants to this nation naturally include artists, teachers, physicians, economists, biologists, chemists, otherr scientists, social workers, carpenters, mechanics and other fully employed contributors to the life and fortune of Gret Britain. The voices of a few enraged cops, however, speak most loudly here and if xenophobia were a cologne, it would certainly stink up the place.
I also wondered how James Langton popped up from nearly prone and nearly dead to walking (albeit painfully) within a few days. Not bloody likely, I think. His physical and psychological misery is well represented, however, so I guess we must forgive LaPlant for not taking us through the long, long, long and tedious recovery that such his maiming would certainly entail.
Overall, I thought she prepresented the points of view well, here, with the exception of the absence of even a white British citizen telling their screaming, self-righteous cracker compatriots to shut the hell up. It made me wonder if the author was illustrating the actual hostility of the civil servants or puttng her own cod philosophy and cod science into the mouths of her characters.
12 of 12 people found the following review helpful.
One Tough London Copper
By Mel Odom
Lynda La Plante is well known to mystery/suspense readers. Her BBC television series, PRIME SUSPECT, ran for seven seasons and starred award-winning actress Helen Mirren as DCI Jane Tennison. In addition to being an actress herself and writing movie and television scripts, La Plante has written several stand-alone and series novels.
The author's latest book, CLEAN CUT, is the third in her Anna Travis series. RED DAHLIA and ABOVE SUSPICION. I hadn't read either of the previous books, but I had no problem diving into this one regarding backstory. La Plante delivers well-developed characters with a tremendous amount of internal conflict. What I needed to know about the two primary characters, Anna and her lover Detective Chief Inspector Jimmy Langdon, was quickly supplied, and I was immersed into the new problems that faced them as a couple and as police officers.
After a rather slow-paced launch at the start of the book, though deep in character complications, Anna starts questioning her relationship with Langdon. She's gotten irritated at the way she seems to have turned from lover to caretaker for him, all without appreciation. Then she gets the phone call that turns her life inside out: Langdon was attacked at his latest crime scene. She's told that even if he lives, Langdon will probably never walk again.
The book centers at the outset on the test of the two wills of Anna and Langdon. She wants to help, but he's so cynical and bitter that she can barely stand to be around him. Not only that, but she finds out that Langdon is going behind her back to get information about the man that attacked him. Anna fears that Langdon is engaging in a vendetta that will land him in trouble with the law. If the wheelchair doesn't get Jimmy Langdon, it looks like prison will.
I liked the characters a lot because they have obvious history and "feel" real. I hated the way Langdon treats Anna, but I totally understood where Langdon's mind is while in the hospital. People in situations like Langdon's strike out at those that love them because those people are the only ones willing to put up with them. This bitterness spreads throughout the novel as Anna's own murder case suddenly intersects with the investigation Langdon was pursuing when he was nearly killed.
La Plante uses the novel to point out how vulnerable countries are these days. Transient populations drift through major cities, like London in this novel, and bring a lot of danger and crime because that's a big part of what those people have to rely on for employment. The presentation of La Plante's views may be unsettling for some, but there's now denying the existence of the problem.
The book remains steady throughout, and its solid police work that breaks the cases wide open and connects them. There are no car chases, martial arts battles, or shootouts. The action La Plante relays in her pages is propelled by emotion and the reader's driving curiosity to find out what's going to happen next. The author has a great ear for dialogue, and her police characters talk the way those people do, in rough vernacular tinged with black humor.
CLEAN CUT is a good book, but it's made even better by the stress on Anna and Langdon's relationships. The final few pages will come as a shock to some. And it will leave readers wondering what's going to happen for Anna in the next book.
6 of 8 people found the following review helpful.
superb English police procedural
By A Customer
In London Detective Chief Inspector Jimmy Langton interrogates prime murder suspect Somali expatriate Idris Krasiniqe. The illegal immigrant claims two gang members were involved in the killing of teenaged prostitute Carly Ann North. Jimmy questions the two when one of them stabs him with a machete. The cop is lucky to be alive.
Jimmy's lover and subordinate Detective Inspector Anna Travis helps him physically recover, but mentally he wants revenge by bringing his attacker, alleged to be drug dealer Clinton Camorra, to jail. Meanwhile Anna investigates the slashing murder of librarian Irene Phelps; sex offender Arthur George Murphy confesses. When his sister Gail Sickert and his infant niece are murdered and two other relatives vanish, Anna thinks voodoo practitioner Camorra is the culprit in all the crimes.
With Jane Tennison taking a needed breather, Lynda La Plante turns to her other tough yet vulnerable heroine (see THE RED DAHLIA and ABOVE SUSPICION). Anna Travis is a terrific lead character who holds the extremely complex police procedural story line together. She accomplishes this remarkable feat in spite of several major fascinating subplots and the strong stance on illegal immigration that runs throughout. Fans will appreciate Ms. La Plante's superb English police procedural.
Harriet Klausner
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