Whole Life Sentence
By Lynda La Plante

THE FINAL EVER DETECTIVE JANE TENNISON THRILLER - AND THE PREQUEL TO TV HITand PRIME SUSPECTand - FROMand SUNDAY TIMESand BESTSELLING CRIME FICTION ICON, LYNDA LA PLANTE._____________________________DETECTIVE JANE TENNISON'S POLICE CAREER HANGS IN THE BALANCE: A SINGLE STEP FROM GLORY - OR RUIN.While she has elbowed her way into an elite team investigating non-domestic murders, there is nothing elite about her first assignments: a missing teenager cold case and an apparent suicide Tennison suspects is, in fact, murder.But as she uncovers explosive evidence, Tennison's new colleagues watch like vultures circling prey. And, one by one, the cases no one else wanted are taken from her - and the glory along with them.Now Tennison has had enough: of the rampant sexism, snide remarks and undermining. It's time to take what is rightfully hers from those who have held her back.She just has to do what she does best: find herand prime suspect . . .PRAISE FOR LYNDA LA PLANTE:'Tennison is a great character. Her hard-fought career - her own life sentence - comprises a landmark series in crime fiction'and -and THE TIMES'Lynda La Plante is an exceptional writer of Crime Drama' -and Dame Helen Mirren'The UK's most celebrated female crime author' -and DAILY MAIL'Thirty years on from writing Prime Suspect, La Plante is still delivering the goods' -and THE TIMES'Tough, brilliant and damaged, [Tennison] shook up the genre forever'and - DAILY EXPRESS'Lynda La Plante practically invented the thriller' -and KARIN SLAUGHTER