Blunt Force

by Lynda LaPlante

Published Date Aug 25, 2020
by Bonnie Zaffre USA

Rating: 3 Stars ⭐⭐⭐

Genre: Mystery & Thrillers

Jane Tennison must navigate the salacious world of theatre to solve a brutal murder in the heart of London’s West End, in the brilliant new thriller from the Queen of Crime Drama, Lynda La Plante.

Things can’t get much worse for detective Jane Tennison. Unceremoniously kicked off the adrenaline-fuelled Flying Squad, she now plies her trade in Gerald Road, a small and sleepy police station in the heart of London’s affluent Knightsbridge.

With only petty crime to sink her teeth into, Tennison can feel her career slowly flatlining. That is until the discovery of the most brutal murder Jane has ever seen: Charlie Foxley has been found viciously beaten to death with a cricket bat – his body dismembered and disembowelled.

As a big-time theatrical agent, Foxley had a lot of powerful friends – but just as many enemies. And alongside her old friend DS Spencer Gibbs, Tennison must journey into the salacious world of show business to find out which one is the killer, before they strike again.

My Thoughts:

Lynda La Plants is a new to me author. This is book six in a series, but can also be read as a standalone.

I love “who done it” type books, but it took me a long time to finish this one! That’s usually a sign to me that it was just not my cup of tea! Although I liked the main characters of the book, Detective Jane Tennisons and DS Spencer Gibbs, old friends that team up again to find the killer, I felt like it moved to slow. There were side stories throughout the whole book that I felt were a distraction and by the end of the book, I really didn’t care “who done it” anymore!

I would like to read one of Lynda La Plante’s other books. In all fairness, this book might have been better if I had read the other five books in the series first!

Thank you NetGalley and Bonnier Zaffre USA for providing me an Advance Reader Copy of Blunt Force in exchange for my unbiased review.