Detective Jane Tennison must lift the lid on the most chilling murder case of her career to date.
A coffin is dug up by builders in the grounds of an historic convent - inside is the body of a young nun.
In a city as old as London, the discovery is hardly surprising. But when scratch marks are found on the inside of the coffin lid, Detective Jane Tennison believes she has unearthed a mystery far darker than any she's investigated before.
However, not everyone agrees. Tennison's superiors dismiss it as an historic cold case, and the Church seems desperate to conceal the facts from the investigation.
It's clear that someone is hiding the truth, and perhaps even the killer. Tennison must pray she can find both - before they are buried forever . . . Lynda La Plante (Author)
Lynda La Plante was born in Liverpool. She is the author of over forty novels, all of which have been bestsellers. She trained for the stage at RADA and worked with the National theatre and RSC before becoming a television actress. She then turned to writing - and made her breakthrough with the phenomenally successful TV series Widows.
Lynda's original script for the much-acclaimed Prime Suspect won awards from BAFTA, Emmys, British Broadcasting and Royal Television Society as well as the 1993 Edgar Allan Poe Award.
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.
Lynda La Plante is the first layperson to be awarded an honorary fellowship to the Forensic Science Society. In 2020 she launched the acclaimed Listening to the Dead podcast with former CSI Cass Sutherland, exploring forensic science and its impact on solving crimes.
Detective Jane Tennison must lift the lid on the most chilling murder case of her career to date - in the thrilling new crime novel from the bestselling crime writer, Lynda La Plante. THE QUEEN OF CRIME DRAMA: With 37 bestselling novels, over 5 million copies sold in the UK alone, and a member of The Crime Thriller Awards Hall of Fame, Lynda is truly crime fiction royalty. She is responsible for over 170 hours of primetime TV, including the perennially popular Prime Suspect, and her classic crime hit Widows was recently adapted by Steve McQueen. ONE OF THE UK'S BIGGEST CRIME SERIES: A new Tennison is crime fiction event publishing - the five Tennison novels have sold 500,000+ through UK Bookscan alone. REFRESHED COVER LOOK: We are revamping Lynda's frontlist cover look to make it unmissable to readers when it hits the shelves, starting with BLUNT FORCE. HUGE NEW INTEREST IN LYNDA: We published BURIED, the first in a new series, in 2020 and have grossed a whopping 180,000 across all physical editions - bringing a huge amount of new readers to Lynda's writing.
