| ISBN |
9781471170140 |
| Name |
La Plante, Lynda author. |
| Title |
The murder files : the Anna Travis cases Lynda La Plante. |
| Description |
1519 pages ; 24 cm. |
| Series |
Anna Travis series ; 1-3. |
| Contents |
Above suspicion --The red Dahlia -- Clean cut. |
| Summary |
Above suspicion (2004): A rookie detective, Anna is about to embark on her first murder case - and it couldn't be a more serious, more gruesome series of murders. The killings began eight years before; now the body count is up to six. The method of killing is identical, the backgrounds of the girls very similar - all of them prostitutes. As the book opens, a seventh body is found, same modus operandi but the victim this time is a young student, sweet, innocent, with 'the face of an angel'. Anna stumbles on a vital piece of information which links one man to the killings. But that man is a household name, a well-known and much-loved actor, with charm, good looks and the gift of the gab. Denial springs easily and confidently to his lips; his protestation of innocence is convincing. What if he is arrested, in the face of huge publicity, and he is the wrong man? |
| The red Dahlia (2006) DI Anna Travis is working on a horrific, brutal murder case that has created a media frenzy. The victim, Louise Pennel, a 24-year-old, single, 'fun-loving' girl, was last seen in a London night club wearing a sequinned mini-dress and a red rose in her hair. In an eerie mirror image of the famous LA murder case of Elizabeth Short in the l930s known as the Black Dahlia, her body was found dumped by the River Thames...severed in half and brutalised beyond recognition. Anna Travis must summon all the strength and guile she became so well known for in "Above Suspicion" to hunt down this sadistic killer. |
| Clean cut (2007) Dedicated, intuitive and utterly obsessive, DCI James Langton is ruthless in his pursuit of a gang of illegal immigrants, killers of a young prostitute. When he is horrifically, almost fatally injured by one of them, it falls upon DI Anna Travis to put her own career on hold as she nurses him through his intense frustration and desperation to bring his would-be murderer to justice. Then Anna is assigned to a different case, the brutal killing of a quiet, studious woman whose body was discovered by her daughter returning home from school. A senseless attack with no obvious motive or immediate suspect. Until, chillingly, thi case becomes unexpectedly linked with Langton's and Anna finds herself under similar threat from those who almost destroyed his career and his life. |
| Subjects |
Travis, Anna (Fictitious character) -- Fiction |
| Women detectives -- Great Britain -- Fiction |
| Serial murders -- Investigation -- Fiction |
| Genre |
Detective and mystery fiction |
| Thrillers (Fiction) |
| Added Names |
La Plante, Lynda |
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