Good Friday, 3 - (Jane Tennison Thriller) by Lynda La Plante (Paperback)
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<p/><br></br><p><b> About the Book </b></p></br></br>"March, 1976. An IRA bombing campaign strikes terror across Britain. Nowhere and no one is safe. Minutes before a deadly tube station blast, Detective Constable Jane Tennison spots the bomber. Too traumatised to identify him, she is nevertheless a key witness. As they battle to unmask the terrorists, the police are determined nothing will disrupt their annual Good Friday dinner dance. Hundreds of detectives and their partners will be there--Jane among them. Then Jane has a flashback. She knows she can identify the bomber, knows how very close to her the IRA is. In a ... race against time, Jane must convince her senior officers to believe her before London is engulfed in another bloodbath"--Page 4 of cover.<p/><br></br><p><b> Book Synopsis </b></p></br></br><b>Before Prime Suspect there was Tennison - this is her story</b> <p/>In the race to stop a deadly attack just pray she's not too late . . . March, 1976. The height of The Troubles. An IRA bombing campaign strikes terror across Britain. Nowhere and no one is safe. When detective constable Jane Tennison survives a deadly explosion at Covent Garden tube station, she finds herself in the middle of a media storm. Minutes before the blast, she caught sight of the bomber. Too traumatised to identify him, she is nevertheless a key witness and put under 24-hour police protection. As work continues round the clock to unmask the terrorists, the Metropolitan police are determined nothing will disrupt their annual Good Friday dinner dance. Amid tight security, hundreds of detectives and their wives and girlfriends will be at St Ermin's Hotel in central London. Jane, too, is persuaded to attend. But in the week leading up to Good Friday, Jane experiences a sudden flashback. She realises that not only can she identify the bomber, but that the IRA Active Service Unit is very close to her indeed. She is in real and present danger. In a nail-biting race against time, Jane must convince her senior officers that her instincts are right before London is engulfed in another bloodbath.<p/><br></br><p><b> About the Author </b></p></br></br>Lynda La Plante was born in Liverpool. She is the author of nearly forty novels, all of which have been bestsellers. She trained for the stage at RADA and worked with the National theatre and RDC before becoming a television actress. She then turned to writing - and made her breakthrough with the phenomenally successful TV series <i>Widows</i>. <p/> Lynda's original script for the much-acclaimed <i>Prime Suspect</i> won awards from BAFTA, Emmys, British Broadcasting and Royal Television Society as well as the 1993 Edgar Allan Poe Award. <p/> Lynda is an honorary fellow of the British Film Institute and was awarded the BAFTA Dennis Potter Best Writer's Award in 2000. In 2008, she was awarded a CBE in the Queen's Birthday Honours List for services to Literature, Drama and Charity. <p/> Lynda La Plante is the first lay person to be awarded an honorary fellowship to the Forensic Science Society. In 2020 she launched the acclaimed <i>Listening to the Dead</i> podcast with former CSI Cass Sutherland, exploring forensic science and its impact on solving crimes
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