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Lynda La Plante
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Publisher | Simon & Schuster | ||
ISBN | 978-184737548 | ||
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Selina
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Synopsis
A motorway service station on the M1: dimly lit, run down, poorly supervised, flickering lights, dark corners; a favourite stopover for long-distance lorry drivers on their way up north from London. Behind it, a body is found in a ditch, that of a girl barely out of her teens. She appears to have no family, no friends, no connections anywhere. Other girls have gone missing in the vicinity and no one has stepped forward to claim them. Anna Travis is assigned to the case. Her blood runs cold when she receives a letter from a lifer -- someone she was responsible for arresting in the past -- who writes to her from prison, asking her to visit him urgently. For he claims he knows who the killer is...
Review
I really enjoyed this book. It was nice to read a murder-thriller type novel that is set in the UK rather than the USA. I felt this made the characters a little more relatable, and it was nice to have reference to places that you know in the storyline.
Throughout the book there was a good balance of plot and information about the characters and their lives, and although there were links to previous novels, not having read them did not mean that I could not follow this book.
The ending was a little unexpected, but leaves the story open for follow-on books, and I would read more by this author.
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