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The Red Dahlia

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by Lynda La Plante
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For those who love mysteries but wish that Patricia Cornwell had a dirtier mind" (Los Angeles Times), the author of Above Suspicion and the acclaimed Prime Suspect series returns with a new mystery.
When the body of a young girl is found dumped on the banks of the Thames, even the police are shocked by the brutality of her murder: horrifically mutilated, severed in half, and drained of blood. Her corpse is an obvious mirror image of the famous Black Dahlia murder in 1940s Los Angeles.

Now Detective Inspector Anna Travis must race against time to catch this copycat killer. She turns to her mentor, the brilliant and volatile Detective Chief Inspector James Langton, but the frictions of their romantic relationship are complicating the case. And then a second girl is found...

  • Creators

  • Series

    Anna Travis

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  • Release date

    July 3, 2007

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      • ISBN: 9781416545156

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      • ISBN: 9781416545156
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  • Languages

    • English

  • Reviews

    • Publisher's Weekly

      May 21, 2007
      In her second Det. Insp. Anna Travis novel (after 2004's Above Suspicion
      ), British author La Plante, best known for TV's Prime Suspect
      featuring DCI Jane Tennison, transports the unsolved Black Dahlia murder to present-day London with disappointing results. When a young woman is found butchered in a field, Anna unexpectedly ends up sharing the case with her former lover, DCI James Langton. As they learn the full extent of the murderer's depravity, letters begin arriving at the police station and local paper, echoing those from the infamous Black Dahlia killer, active more than 50 years ago in Los Angeles. The self-named Red Dahlia Avenger mocks Anna and Langton as they hit one dead end after another. Anna lacks Tennison's tough vulnerability and floats through the story without much emotional investment. Procedural minutiae bog down this novel, which, despite the lurid subject matter, never manages to shock the reader.

    • Library Journal

      Starred review from June 1, 2007
      Detective Inspector Anna Travis and Chief Detective Inspector James Langton, first seen in "Above Suspicion", are reunited in one of the most brutal murder cases either has seen. The mutilation death of a young woman seems to be patterned after the notorious unsolved 1940s Los Angeles Black Dahlia case. La Plante, author of the acclaimed "Prime Suspect" series, has the Surrey police scrambling for any information leading to the killer. Along with Val McDermid and John Harvey, La Plante is among the best British writers of the police procedural. Highly recommended for all mystery collections. She lives in London.

      Copyright 2007 Library Journal, LLC Used with permission.

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