LYNDA LA PLANTE, página 2 de 4

'Please don't let anything bad have happened to her, please don't let anything have happened to my baby...' Marcus and Lena Fulford are the envy of their friends. Wealthy, attractive and successful, the couple, with their strikingly beautiful teenage daughter Amy, seem settled and content. But appearances mask a strained relationship almost at breaking point. Marcus's latest business venture has failed, draining Lena, the major breadwinner, dry. Putting Amy into weekly boarding school and striving to get her own career back on its feet, Lena remains alone in the luxurious family house as her marriage heads towards as amicable a divorce as she and Marcus can muster, and joint custody of their only child. So when Amy arranges a sleepover with a school friend one weekend, neither parent sees the need to be in touch with her. Saturday, Sunday, Monday morning pass before Lena - seething from her first, unexpectedly confrontational, meeting with Marcus's divorce lawyer - phones Amy. Straight to Amy's voicemail. She must be in lessons. Lena sends a text. She waits. No reply, no contact whatsoever. It is only when Amy is reported missing from school and her friend's mother reveals that, instead of staying with them, Amy was visiting her father - a fact vehemently denied by Marcus - that Lena contacts the police. Her daughter has not been seen since Saturday afternoon. As the police intensify their enquiries, their reassurances that Amy will be found safe and well begin to sound increasingly hollow. DI Victor Reid, in charge of the case, fears the worst - abduction or murder. A family under constant police and press scrutiny, a father who has seemingly lied about his alibi for the weekend, a mother whose perfect world is crumbling beneath her feet, a detective under pressure from his impatient superiors to deliver a result, the length of time that Amy has been missing gathering speed...all conspire to make Lynda La Plante's latest thriller her most tense and terrifying yet. Where is Amy? Is she alive or dead? Lies and betrayal mount as the hunt for a missing girl becomes a search for a body...

Cuando el cuerpo de una joven aparece en la orilla del Támesis, la policía queda profundamente impactada ante la brutalidad del crimen: el cadáver de la muchacha, espantosamente mutilado, despierta el recuerdo del famoso asesinato conocido en su dia como el de la Dalia Negra, ocurrido en la decada de 1940 en la ciudad de Los Angeles.La detective Anna Travis debera emprender una carrera contra el tiempo a fin de atrapar al asesino de la Dalia Roja, llamado asi por la flor que la victima llevaba en el pelo. Sin embargo, no hay ningun sospechoso y el descontrol amenaza el frenesi mediatico que ha despertado el caso. Anna acude a su jefe James Langton en busca de ayuda, pero las fricciones provocadas por la relacion que les uniera en el pasado no hacen sino complicar aun mas el caso.

Hot young British film star Amanda Delany had the world at her feet. Never one for the quiet life, she'd had a string of affairs with famous actors, making perfect fodder for the tabloids. Then came a commission to write a tell-all memoir. When Amanda is found brutally murdered in her elegant mews house, the suspects are lining up - from jealous ex-flat mates to famous lovers to a corrupt agent. As DCI James Langton leads his team in an extensive enquiry, they discover the sad truth behind Amanda's successful façade. An autopsy reveals that she was addicted to drugs and starvation diets. Amanda's parents are a cold, unemotional couple who hushed up the fact that their daughter once almost died from a botched back-street abortion. When Amanda's ex-flat mate is suddenly found dead, DI Anna Travis makes shocking discoveries about the identity of Amanda's killer. Meanwhile, Travis is up for promotion, but her boss DCI James Langton is blocking her, with an accusation of professional misconduct. This latest case, her toughest challenge so far, could make or break Anna's career.

The first in a crime series new to Simon & Schuster by the SUNDAY TIMES bestselling author of ABOVE SUSPICION and THE RED DAHLIA

Llibre Fitxa Más allá de la sospecha Lynda La Plante La investigación de una cadena de asesinatos y un atractivo sospechoso… No puede decirse que el debut en el cuerpo policial londinense de Anna Travis, joven investigadora e hija de un querido ex miembro del cuerpo, sea precisamente fácil. Las piezas no encajan en una serie de asesinatos que tienen en común el mismo modus operandi pero distintos perfiles de las víctimas. Además, Anna debe demostrar a su jefe, el escéptico inspector Langton, que su juventud no es un obstáculo para convertirse en una extraordinaria investigadora. La perspicacia de Anna ayuda a encontrar la pieza que faltaba para encontrar un móvil y un asesino. Pero, qué ocurrirá cuando esa pieza apunte a Alan Daniels, un guapo y consagrado actor que la opinión pública adora, y del que la propia Anna podría enamorarse?

Features La Plante's new character, Anna Travis, a rookie detective about to embark on her first murder case - a series of gruesome murders over eight years. Anna stumbles on a vital information that links the killings to one man - but he is a household name, a well- known, much-loved actor. Could he possibly be the killer?

Under the watchful eye of Detective Chief Superintendent James Langton, Anna is given her first case. But is it a full-blown murder investigation or purely a missing person's case? An ominous pool of blood and no victim lead Anna on a desperate hunt for a man who has disappeared without trace. As Anna becomes obsessed with seemingly irrelevant details, Langton fears that she is losing control of the case. They still have no body and Anna is under increasing pressure to make an arrest...