Jane Tennison is struggling to find her place in a male-dominated world. Recently she has been promoted to Detective Constable in the Metropolitan police but her duties are mundane and way beneath what she is capable of. She takes the plunge and lets her feelings known to her superior who agrees her transfer to a specialist anti-theft section.
Jane has to rise above the machoism and sexism she experiences on a daily basis within her squad. She is the only female detective within the DIP Squad, an anti-pickpocketing specialist unit. However, despite many a blunder, Jane begins to prove her worth to her male colleagues.
Set in 1973 the plot centres around the IRA bombing campaign of this era. Jane witnesses an IRA bomber detonating a bomb whilst travelling on the underground. She thus becomes a target and the plot unfolds around the risks she has to take, the friendships and acquaintances she makes and the risks to her life these relationships put her under.
The storyline is intricate and fast-paced and Tennison’s character is one of determination and vulnerability. Her colleagues in the DIP Squad become part of her story, a part of her survival. Their characters unfold as the plot develops adding depth and intrigue to the storyline often making you change your opinion from hating them one minute to loving them the next.
Apart from being a ripping good read, the story gives an insight into how IRA cells operate, how IRA sympathisers support their bombing campaigns and the bravery of police officers, especially bomb disposal officers in keeping civilians safe.
This isn’t a whodunnit storyline but who and how do we stop it happening again.
I could not put this book down. I was always a fan of The Prime Suspect TV series and the way Lynda La Plante has written a series about the early career of its main character and heroine Jane Tennison is very clever and very readable.
Good Friday has a clever plot, lots of depths to its characters and its description of life in the early 70’s makes its un -put -downable novel and will appeal to fans of crime fiction, psychological thrillers and true crime alike.
Five Star Review
Jane has to rise above the machoism and sexism she experiences on a daily basis within her squad. She is the only female detective within the DIP Squad, an anti-pickpocketing specialist unit. However, despite many a blunder, Jane begins to prove her worth to her male colleagues.
Set in 1973 the plot centres around the IRA bombing campaign of this era. Jane witnesses an IRA bomber detonating a bomb whilst travelling on the underground. She thus becomes a target and the plot unfolds around the risks she has to take, the friendships and acquaintances she makes and the risks to her life these relationships put her under.
The storyline is intricate and fast-paced and Tennison’s character is one of determination and vulnerability. Her colleagues in the DIP Squad become part of her story, a part of her survival. Their characters unfold as the plot develops adding depth and intrigue to the storyline often making you change your opinion from hating them one minute to loving them the next.
Apart from being a ripping good read, the story gives an insight into how IRA cells operate, how IRA sympathisers support their bombing campaigns and the bravery of police officers, especially bomb disposal officers in keeping civilians safe.
This isn’t a whodunnit storyline but who and how do we stop it happening again.
I could not put this book down. I was always a fan of The Prime Suspect TV series and the way Lynda La Plante has written a series about the early career of its main character and heroine Jane Tennison is very clever and very readable.
Good Friday has a clever plot, lots of depths to its characters and its description of life in the early 70’s makes its un -put -downable novel and will appeal to fans of crime fiction, psychological thrillers and true crime alike.
Five Star Review