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.