Wrongful Death

Detective Chief Superintendent James Langton has brought together a special team including DCI Anna Travis, DI Paul Barolli, DS Barbara Maddox and DC Joan Falkland to review a case, which was originally thought to be a suicide.  The team is wary of the information that Langton provides regarding the case. 

Added to the team is Special Agent of the FBI, Jessie Dewar.  Barolli is shocked by how attractive she is when he picks her up at the airport and even more so when Langton shows up at her flat with roses and wine; she greets him like a long lost friend.  On the other hand, Travis is not impressed with the way Dewar treats her team.

Checking with forensic scientist Pete Jenkins, Travis is shocked when she learns that he was not consulted on the case.  Also, one of the doctors on the case was suspended due to major errors on a couple of other cases. 

With Travis scheduled to go to America on an FBI course, Detective Superintendent Mike Lewis is assigned to oversee the case.  He was the one who had signed off on it as a suicide.  However, he is also well known and respected by the team.  Not long after his appointment, evidence comes through pointing to murder, and the killer being the victim’s wife.

Despite being on her way to Quantico for an FBI course, Travis still needs to be convinced about the suicide.  Is there anyway that, while in the U. S., that Travis will be able to gather evidence to prove her ideas?

Author Lynda La Plante has written a gripping thriller that will engage the reader. Travis has her hands full trying to outwit a sociopath, and prove her case.  Could this be her last case?  Read on!  I found this book hard to put down, and I’m sure that you will be the same.