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Backlash Anna Travis series Book 8 edition by Lynda La Plante Mystery Thriller Suspense eBooks

First, the caveat. A jacket blurb by Karin Slaughter at the center of the cover states that “Lynda LaPlante practically invented the thriller.” Be warned: Backlash is not, by any stretch of the imagination, a thriller.

Backlash is a police procedural in the Anna Travis series. It is also (SPOILER alert) very much in the spirit of the prime suspect novels. The premise is straightforward. A van is being driven erratically. When it is stopped and searched, the body of a young woman is found inside. The driver, a former prize fighter named Henry Oates, admits to murdering her and, simultaneously, admits to killing two other young women. One of them is a young girl named Rebekka Jordan, whose unsolved case was worked by DCS James Langton some five years earlier. Langton is recovering from knee surgery and asks Anna Travis to investigate the Jordan case (in tandem with another DCI—Mike Lewis—who is investigating the other cases associated with Oates).

Thus we have a series of difficult personal interactions. Lewis and Travis must work together but respect each other’s turf and each must conjure with Langton, who raves and frets and issues orders. He cannot stand sitting on the sidelines and intrudes with regularity.

Having said that, the story itself is completely linear. We have one suspect and the investigators take 484 pp. to build their case and deal with a few tweaks at the end. The story is very complex, but it is not convoluted. Evidence is assembled, case by case; suspects are interviewed and re-interviewed. Crime scenes are visited and re-visited.

The story is well-told, but it is a very long story and it is a very deliberate story, not a thrilling one. There is a good bit of texture, a decent sense of place and relatively interesting characters. I would not describe the story as a ‘plod’ but many readers will find it slow. Lynda LaPlante is an expert writer, so this is a very professional work, but it is not a thriller and at some points it lacks ‘steady advance’. Save it for a three or four-day winter weekend when you’re in the house for the duration and want a long read.


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Backlash Anna Travis series Book 8 edition by Lynda La Plante Mystery Thriller Suspense eBooks Reviews

If you are looking for a page turner this is not it. Lynda La Plante has a formidable reputation as an author and I was looking forward to the release of this book. Unfortunately the writing is basic and the storyline unbelievable in places .
This is not a book that will have you desperate to know what happens next. The main heroine Anna Travers is frustrating and would she really be so submissive to her boss? Hard to believe anyone would put up with his rants and controlling behaviour. The plot line is all over the shop with too many coincidences to be plausible. Disappointing all round.
Excellent, top of the line page turner
Great book.
I love reading about crime,murders and the way the police work together and apart ,gathering evidence,and fighting among themselves before finally resolving the cases.
I also like to follow various characters from one book to the next ,e.g. Anna Travis and to read about her personal life and love affairs as well as her development in her career.LindaLePlante is an exciting author ,one that I have followed for a few years now.The television productions of her stories are riveting too and I am hoping to see more of them.
I thoroughly recommend this book.
I can't help seeing some similarity with her other detective Jane Tennyson. This one seems to have softer corners, but a tendency to individual thinking which gets her criticised. Sad about her fiance but How long has that been? How Could she make a rookie mistake like tell a parent their daughter had not been raped? The results were not available yet. Maybe she needs a few of Janes corners? I thought her boss was a selfish prat. Several things could have made the case easier to work how many bosses does that departments need?
The beginning of the book read like someone just starting out writing - expository dialogue that didn't make sense in the context of the story, jumping around points-of-view that were jarring, clunky sentences. Then somewhere about a third of the way through LLP hit her stride. A suitably creepy murder suspect, some reasonable tension and drama, some worry over over-spent budgets I could have done without, a little extra human depravity that juiced things up a bit. Wouldn't recommend rushing out to buy it, but is a good way to get through a plane flight or a rainy weekend.
Thought the plot was interesting and the characters were well developed but if you buy in to the belief that this guy was as smart as the author would have the reader believe then it goes beyond the suspension of disbelief that the perpetrator would be pulled over by the police with the body of his latest victim still in the back of a borrowed van. Especially when there was nothing that would have brought this guy to any ones attention prior to the traffic stop. Would be willing to read another because the characters were both believable and interesting
BACKLASH is an Anna Travis Mystery (Book #8) written by Lynda La Plante.
A chance ‘pull over’ of an erratically driven van leads to the discovery of a brutally murdered woman and a full investigation by the Murder Squad. What they uncover leads to the opening of several ‘Cold Case’ Missing Persons Files.
A very suspenseful crime drama and police procedural, I couldn’t put it down.
James Langton continues to be an insufferable jerk, however, and Anna Travis’s expertise is seldom appreciated or acknowledged.
First, the caveat. A jacket blurb by Karin Slaughter at the center of the cover states that “Lynda LaPlante practically invented the thriller.” Be warned Backlash is not, by any stretch of the imagination, a thriller.

Backlash is a police procedural in the Anna Travis series. It is also (SPOILER alert) very much in the spirit of the prime suspect novels. The premise is straightforward. A van is being driven erratically. When it is stopped and searched, the body of a young woman is found inside. The driver, a former prize fighter named Henry Oates, admits to murdering her and, simultaneously, admits to killing two other young women. One of them is a young girl named Rebekka Jordan, whose unsolved case was worked by DCS James Langton some five years earlier. Langton is recovering from knee surgery and asks Anna Travis to investigate the Jordan case (in tandem with another DCI—Mike Lewis—who is investigating the other cases associated with Oates).

Thus we have a series of difficult personal interactions. Lewis and Travis must work together but respect each other’s turf and each must conjure with Langton, who raves and frets and issues orders. He cannot stand sitting on the sidelines and intrudes with regularity.

Having said that, the story itself is completely linear. We have one suspect and the investigators take 484 pp. to build their case and deal with a few tweaks at the end. The story is very complex, but it is not convoluted. Evidence is assembled, case by case; suspects are interviewed and re-interviewed. Crime scenes are visited and re-visited.

The story is well-told, but it is a very long story and it is a very deliberate story, not a thrilling one. There is a good bit of texture, a decent sense of place and relatively interesting characters. I would not describe the story as a ‘plod’ but many readers will find it slow. Lynda LaPlante is an expert writer, so this is a very professional work, but it is not a thriller and at some points it lacks ‘steady advance’. Save it for a three or four-day winter weekend when you’re in the house for the duration and want a long read.