The insights into her personal life allows the reader to bond with Tennison as she navigates her way through all the hoops involved with a serving officer renting out a room to a civilian (also proving that even police checks are not infallable) and how human she can be as she stumbles from one bad decision to another when it comes to the men in her life. La Plante also co-produced her adaptation of the UK hit Widows (2002 ABC) and produced the pilot of Cold Shoulder (2006 New Regency / CBS) starring Kelly McGillis, which was based on her Cold series. After leaving the Metropolitan Police Training Academy, 22 year-old Jane Tennison is placed on a probationary exercise in Hackney, London where criminality thrives.

To read more about the site or if you want a graphic to link to us, see the about page for more details. The pacing and tension are pitched just right,and you are taken on an interesting journey that you don’t want to end. Helena Lanark is the only one who knows about the horrors which once occurred in her family's house.She trained for the stage at RADA and worked with the National theatre and RSC before becoming a television actress. As prolific as ever, Lynda La Plante is delivering one of these novels per year and I’ve found it fascinating to watch the character we’re used to watching as a Detective Inspector, starting out in uniform and learning the ropes. Her original script for the much-acclaimed Prime Suspect won awards from BAFTA, Emmy, British Broadcasting and Royal Television Society as well as the 1993 Edgar Allan Poe Award. When a photograph appears in the newspapers, showing Jane assisting the injured at the scene, it puts her and her family at risk from IRA retaliation.

Jane misses her previous boss and the closeness they shared, as well as Kath, her sparky female mentor. Hidden Killers is the second book in the Tennison series and Jane is coming to terms with what happened to her colleagues in the failed bank robbery. I’ll say no more, other than that Jane acquits herself admirably – it’s pretty exciting stuff, and undoubtedly will be good for her career. When an eccentric elderly widow claims she is being stalked, Detective Jack Warr is the only person willing to dig into the truth, but he soon finds himself embroiled in an international drugs operation, art theft – and a murder investigation.

She trained for the stage at RADA and worked with the National teatre and RDC before becoming a television actress.

In 2001, the British Academy of Film and Television Arts (BAFTA) gave her the Dennis Potter Award for television writing. Contact UsPlease contact us to check and verify the details of the item before purchasing if there is a specific image, edition, or variation you are looking for. I was interested in the gender politics of the series, the way male officers would deride and try to undermine Tennison was shocking. She is responsible for over 170 hours of primetime TV, including the perennially popular Prime Suspect, and her classic Widows. Age doesn’t mean anything when faced with a women this driven in her career, and this dedicated to the heart of her craft.Where we land in Book 3 is a 1970s London where the peace is threatened by the IRA bombing campaign. Jane Tennison is a feisty character who is determined to succeed in a profession that at the time was dominated by men and where women were often seen as an inconvenience and distraction best suited to office work. Set around the time of the IRA bombing campain in London Good Friday puts Jane in the middle of possibly her most dangerous investigations albeit from the sidelines.