Blind Fury Book

Fans of Lynda La Plante are well aware that her books waste no time in grabbing the reader’s attention, right from the first paragraph (she performed a similar feat on television with the Prime Suspect TV films, and proved that she could pull off the trick in her novels). With her new book, Blind Fury, all such things are in place, as usual – you'll find you're firmly in that comforting (if unsettling) La Plante grip.LaPlante’s heroine DI Anna Travis is used to pressure -- being a woman in authority in the police force is never easy, and her ex-lover and boss DCS James Langton (from whom she’s unsuccessfully tried to steer clear in the past) has brought her into a team of investigators with a difficult case. Near a motorway service station, a young woman’s body is found, and Anna and Langton’s team come to realise that they have a triple murder investigation on their hands. But then Anna is contacted by a murderer she had helped to bring to book – he is prepared to talk to her – and only to her. Is this sinister figure to be her entrée into the mind of another killer?No nuances here – just straightforwardly gripping LaPlante fare. What makes Blind Fury so readable, though, is not the briskly-delivered narrative or even the characterisation of the always believable Anna Travis; it is the treatment of the villain, playing grim mind games with Anna. Cut from a familiar cloth, perhaps, and the shades of Hannibal Lecter and Clarice Starling are never far away (La Plante is a dedicated Thomas Harris admirer), but who cares? This is sterling stuff. --Barry ForshawRead More