Someone is killing girls and dumping their bodies near
highway service station near London. A massive
investigation is launched, but when an unlikely source of
help begins to piece the clues together, it's up to
London's Finest to step up and solve these grisly murders
before someone else is drawn into the killer's sights.
In Lynda La Plante's latest thriller, BLIND FURY, she brings
the reader deep into the world of investigative police work
with her sixth novel featuring the intrepid policewoman
Anna Travis.
Detective Inspector Travis is called in to lead the
investigation of the murders of the young women whose
battered and raped bodies had been dumped in a field close
to the M1, the major thoroughfare between London and
Manchester. Two of the cases were somewhat similar as the
victims were young Polish immigrants, but the third victim
seemed to have no connection at all, being an
older "working" woman who trolled among the men at the
service station. To add to the confusion of the cases, no
DNA had been left at the scene.
Carefully piecing together the clues, digging up clues in
places the former investigators had missed, Travis has to
work carefully not to antagonize the crew she was working
with. The evidence mounts and the investigation runs into
increasing dead end after dead end until a letter arrives
from Cameron Welsh, a prisoner who Travis previously helped
put away for sexual homicide. Welsh claims to have a
special insight that could solve the murders, but will only
give the information to Travis.
During her trips to Barfield Prison, where Welsh is being
kept in a high-risk security wing, Travis is subjected to
all manners of disgusting tirades and sexual innuendos
from Welsh, who does however, prove to be useful in some of
the scenarios he poses. During her many visits to the
special security unit Travis meets and falls hard for
prison guard Ken Hudson. But in the process of falling head-
over-heels for the guard, she finds evidence which suggests
that perhaps he may be involved in the disappearance of the
murdered girls. Can she trust her heart, or will love once
again take a backseat to her career and the investigation
at hand?
One of Britain's top thriller writers, Lynda La Plante once
again provides plenty of thrills and intrigue in this
fascinating novel. The plot is a complicated one, but La
Plante delivers the story with clever twists and turns that
keep the reader fascinated to the very end. And while this
is the sixth book featuring La Plante's character of Anna
Travis, readers can catch up with enough backstory to know
the sticky situations Travis has come through in the past
and her motives and drive in this story as well.
When the body of a young woman is discovered close to a
highway service station, Detective Inspector Anna Travis is
brought on to the team of investigators by her former lover
and boss, Detective Chief Superintendent Langton. As more
evidence is uncovered, the team realizes that they are
contending with a triple murder investigation—and no suspect.
But then a murderer Anna helped arrest years ago makes
contact from prison. Cameron Welsh insists that he can help
track down the killer, but he will divulge his secrets only
to Anna herself. Does he really have an insight into another
criminal’s mind, or is he merely intent on getting into hers?
The team soon realizes that they are dealing with a killer
whose deviousness has enabled him to commit horrific crimes,
yet remain undetected for years. As the case draws to a
close, Welsh’s obsession for Anna fuels a terrifying rage
that will have disastrous consequences for Anna, who finds
herself staring into the face of a desperate personal tragedy.
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