Backlash : an Anna Travis novel
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Award-winning and international bestselling author Lynda La Plante returns with the eighth installment in her acclaimed series featuring London's Detective Chief Inspector Anna Travis.
Late night on a notorious high-rise estate in the borough of Hackney. A woman on the street never makes it home after a long night of drinking. A white van is being driven erratically. The driver is pulled over by the police and questioned. A suspect . . . an arrest . . . a confession. Case closed?
Five years earlier, a thirteen-year-old girl disappeared in broad daylight on a busy London street. Detective Chief Superintendent James Langton headed the investigation; the case was never solved. It has haunted him ever since. And now comes another confession, to this murder, and to one more besides. But is it too good to be true? After being pulled into the fray, Anna Travis isn't so sure that they have their man.
Then the suspect changes his story. . . .
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Booklist Review
Being questioned after a dead woman is found in the van he was driving, Henry Oates confesses to several other murders, including that of 13-year-old Rebekka Jordan. On bed rest after knee surgery, Superintendent James Langton asks Detective Chief Inspector Anna Travis to handle the Jordan investigation. Oates soon recants his confession, and Travis must try to connect the dots between Oates and a string of missing young women. Between Langton's micromanaging and unreliable information from Oates' ex-wife and acquaintances, Travis' exhaustion and impatience is palpable. In this eighth entry in the Anna Travis series, La Plante offers another fine blend of police procedural and gritty thriller.--Keefe, Karen Copyright 2010 Booklist
Publisher's Weekly Review
La Plante breaks no new ground in her eighth Anna Travis novel (after 2012's Bloodline). Anna, now detective chief inspector for Specialist Casework, uses lateral thinking to restart stalled murder investigations, including one involving Henry Oates, the driver of a van that contained birthday party supplies-and a corpse. During his initial interrogation, Oates alluded to having committed other murders, and Anna must help determine the truth of his statements. Dull, routine police work focuses on identifying people who can provide information on Oates's life and on looking for evidence to connect him with other killings. The interrogations themselves and the devising of strategies to get under the suspect's skin have been done better elsewhere, including the TV series Prime Suspect (the author's breakthrough). La Plante takes no risks in this installment. Agent: Gill Coleridge, Rogers, Coleridge & White (U.K.). (Oct.) (c) Copyright PWxyz, LLC. All rights reserved.
Booklist Reviews
Being questioned after a dead woman is found in the van he was driving, Henry Oates confesses to several other murders, including that of 13-year-old Rebekka Jordan. On bed rest after knee surgery, Superintendent James Langton asks Detective Chief Inspector Anna Travis to handle the Jordan investigation. Oates soon recants his confession, and Travis must try to connect the dots between Oates and a string of missing young women. Between Langton's micromanaging and unreliable information from Oates' ex-wife and acquaintances, Travis' exhaustion and impatience is palpable. In this eighth entry in the Anna Travis series, La Plante offers another fine blend of police procedural and gritty thriller. Copyright 2013 Booklist Reviews.
Publishers Weekly Reviews
La Plante breaks no new ground in her eighth Anna Travis novel (after 2012's Bloodline). Anna, now detective chief inspector for Specialist Casework, uses lateral thinking to restart stalled murder investigations, including one involving Henry Oates, the driver of a van that contained birthday party supplies—and a corpse. During his initial interrogation, Oates alluded to having committed other murders, and Anna must help determine the truth of his statements. Dull, routine police work focuses on identifying people who can provide information on Oates's life and on looking for evidence to connect him with other killings. The interrogations themselves and the devising of strategies to get under the suspect's skin have been done better elsewhere, including the TV series Prime Suspect (the author's breakthrough). La Plante takes no risks in this installment. Agent: Gill Coleridge, Rogers, Coleridge & White (U.K.). (Oct.)
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Citations
La Plante, L. (2013). Backlash: an Anna Travis novel (First U.S. Edition.). Bourbon Street Books, An Imprint of HarperCollinsPublishers.
Chicago / Turabian - Author Date Citation, 17th Edition (style guide)La Plante, Lynda. 2013. Backlash: An Anna Travis Novel. New York: Bourbon Street Books, An Imprint of HarperCollinsPublishers.
Chicago / Turabian - Humanities (Notes and Bibliography) Citation, 17th Edition (style guide)La Plante, Lynda. Backlash: An Anna Travis Novel New York: Bourbon Street Books, An Imprint of HarperCollinsPublishers, 2013.
Harvard Citation (style guide)La Plante, L. (2013). Backlash: an anna travis novel. First U.S. edn. New York: Bourbon Street Books, An Imprint of HarperCollinsPublishers.
MLA Citation, 9th Edition (style guide)La Plante, Lynda. Backlash: An Anna Travis Novel First U.S. Edition., Bourbon Street Books, An Imprint of HarperCollinsPublishers, 2013.