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The drag queen named Vera Reynolds swayed on-stage singing "Falling in Love Again." And a sixteen-year-old boy lay in Vera's fire-engulfed apartment...very, very dead. He was a "rent boy," a sex-for-hire street kid who catered to the tastes of special customers. It was the kind of murder Soho's Vice Squad saw often. But the influential do-gooder who was a prime suspect in this one made the young boy's death different-a ticking bomb able to blast open the nasty, secret lives of politicians, show more judges...and cops. Detective Jane Tennison had moved up the career ladder through sheer guts and an unstoppable passion for justice. Now, on her first day as the head of the Vice Squad, she caught a case threatening to wreck her career. She had been told whom to arrest-and whom to back off from-in the murder of the "rent boy." And she couldn't go with the program. She knew a destroyer of children was out there. She knew she had a choice: to save her future or go after him like an avenging angel, and damn the consequences to hell... show lessTags
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A grim story where Jane Tennison, newly appointed head of the Vice Squad, investigates crimes against young rent boys. She discovers a public figure is her prime suspect and is instructed unequivocally on how her inquiry should proceed. After all her effort to break through the glass ceiling, her career could come to an abrupt end if she makes the wrong decision. An unpleasant reminder of current celebrities being charged with old sexual crimes.
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Lynda La Plante was born on March 15, 1943 in Liverpool, Merseyside, England. She studied acting at the Royal Academy of Dramatic Art. Her breakthrough came when she created and wrote a six-part series Widows for Thames Television. She formed her own television production company and has written and produced many high-rating series. She is best show more known for her Prime Suspect television series and won an Emmy Award for Best Mini Series. She won an Edgar Award from the Mystery Writers of America for her work on Mystery! Her debut novel was The Legacy. Her other works include Bella Mafia, Sleeping Cruelty, Royal Flush, The Little Ones, Twisted, The Prime Suspect Cases, Hidden Killers, Widows, Murder Mile, and Widow's Revenge. Her other awards include being made Commander of the Order of the British Empire, an Honorary Fellow with the Forensic Science Society, an Honorary Fellow from Liverpool John Moores University, and, also became an honorary member of the British Film Institute. She was inducted into the Crime Thriller Awards Hall of Fame and awarded an Honorary Fellowship with the Forensic Science Society. (Bowker Author Biography) show less
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- Canonical title
- Silent Victims
- Original publication date
- 1994
- People/Characters
- Jane Tennison
- Disambiguation notice
- Please be careful when combining Prime Suspect 3. Lynda La Plante not only wrote the book, but was the screenwriter for the TV series with the same name.
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