Murder Mile

This is the fourth book in this series and Tennison has gone from fetching coffee and Manning a desk to actively investigating crimes and interviewing suspects. She is often led by her intuition rather than following the active investigation and despite the violence that she has experienced she has not become hardened by what she has seen.

Just when evidence comes together to point to the killer, new possibilities are introduced. While the victims did not know each other there is a common denominator that emerges slowly and points the investigation in a totally different direction. La Plante is a master of her craft and Murder Mile proves that. I would like to thank BookishFirst for providing a copy of this book in exchange for my honest review. Murder Mile is the second Jane Tennison novel I've read. Jane is growing into her own.

It's difficult to read what some of her colleagues and superiors actually think of women in the work force. Sometimes, we forget how much progress has been made in equity for women in the work force, even as we are reminded of how far we have still to go. The this latest volume of the series, Jane solves the connected murders of three women and one man.

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In addition to investigating the crimes, Jane must also negotiate the lack of empathy and understanding of her mother and the office politics of many of the "boys" she works with. Some of these colleagues both admire and attempt to undermine her. Through it all, Jane keeps her wits about her as she solves the crimes and fights for her right to do the job she loves. This murder mystery is an excellent murder mystery. This author wrote a very good nail biting, suspenseful mystery.

This author is a very good mystery writer and hope to read more of this authors books. It is quite obvious this writer is very good and should be very proud of that. I look forward to more writings. Thanks for a very good mystery. Much more of a standard police procedural than the last book in the series but no worse off for it. I did find the ending slightly predictable but enjoyed the book throughout. Aug 25, Pat Simpson rated it really liked it. This is the fourth book in the series featuring the young Jane Tennsison.

We find Jane has been transferred to Peckham, one of the worst areas for crime, and has been promoted to Detective Sergeant. Jane is sent to a crime scene where the body of a young woman has been dumped in an alleyway and she has been strangled and sexually assaulted. Jane and her team then have to consider whether the two murders are linked.

A third body is then discovered. Jane is gaining in confidence now and is not afraid to voice her opinions which does not always go down well with her superiors. Also what is interesting is how the investigating methods have changed. Information cannot be accessed by the touch of a button, no internet searching, no mobile phones, just a lot more time spent investigating.

Thanks to NetGalley and Zaffre for giving me the opportunity to read and review this book. Aug 20, Linda Hepworth rated it liked it. Murder Mile is the fourth book in the series which follows Jane Tennison in the early years of her career. It is and she is now a detective sergeant, working from Peckham CID, a particularly tough area of South London, notorious for both petty and serious crime. Nearing the end of their nightshift, when there is a report of the body of a young woman having been found in an alley, she and her partner are the closest officers available to attend.

When they arrive at the scene it appears, from Murder Mile is the fourth book in the series which follows Jane Tennison in the early years of her career. When they arrive at the scene it appears, from a ligature around her neck, that the victim had been strangled and, from the state of her clothing, that she had possibly been sexually assaulted. A day later, and not far from the original crime scene, another woman is found murdered. Although the causes of death are very different, as are the ages and social-standing of the victims, there is the immediate question as to whether such proximity of the bodies means that the two murders could be connected.

The consequent social and political unrest provided the fertile ground which paved the way to the election of Margaret Thatcher as Prime Minister. Her intensive research into police procedural methods at the time was used to good effect, reminding the reader that investigations in the late s had to be carried out without access to most of the modern technology we now take for granted; when interviews were written up by hand, with the interviewee being required to initial the end of each page; when forensic science was, to a large extent, still in its infancy and when any collation of data still relied on paper records, as well as the elephantine memory of a station officer whose sole job it was to keep records of local crimes and criminals.

Although there were moments when it felt very disturbing and uncomfortable to be exposed to the openly racist, bigoted and misogynistic attitudes which were rife in the Metropolitan Police at that time, as well as the corruption which permeated the Force, all these reflections contributed an evocative authenticity to the story. Jane has been promoted and, as she is proving herself to be good at her job, has now gained more, if often grudging, respect from some her colleagues.

However, she is still faced with having to battle with ingrained sexist attitudes and, because of this, must work harder than any of her male colleagues in order to be listened to and taken seriously. The way in which the author is developing her main character is increasingly exposing the experiences which influenced and shaped the young Jane, enabling her to develop the strong, resilient personality which will make her a force to be reckoned with in the later years of her career.

Also, there were moments when I felt that the author had worked just a bit too hard to include all the minutiae from her research, often in a rather tediously repetitive way, in her efforts to convey a convincing sense of time and place. For me this had the effect of taking some of the tension out of the more psychological aspects of the developing story. It is what I perceive as this imbalance which has influenced my decision to give the novel just three stars.

My thanks to Zaffre and Readers First for providing me with a copy of this book in exchange for an honest review. I love this genre of books. I was sucked in by page 10! I look forward to reading the rest of it! There are covers where you can look at them a hundred times and never remember them. Then there are covers that will stick with you, but more than that they will compel you to look again and again.

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I will be looking to either buy it at the book store or Amazon, or even borrow it at my local library. Oct 20, Liz Quirky Cat rated it really liked it Shelves: I received a copy of Murder Mile through BookishFirst in exchange for a fair and honest review. Murder Mile is the fourth book in the series by Lynda La Plante. That being said, you really could just jump in here if you really wanted to; I did. I had no problem understanding what was going on, and a lot of the context I was missing out on was either hinted at or flat out stated later.

The series itself is actually a prequel series, showing Jane Tennison in her earlier years. There are a few graphic murders here all are described after the fact with strangulation coming up as well as concerns of rape. Jane Tennison is an investigator who is very good at her job, unfortunately it seems like nobody else is willing to acknowledge that, least of all her superiors. So that was a really refreshing change for me. Actually, La Plante did more than that. She actively showed how toxic those attitudes could be, personally and professionally, and how it can affect the very cases these people were working on.

A fast-faced, gripping thriller about a murder investigation in the midst of the Winter of Discontent. Now promoted to Detective Sergeant and working on the M A fast-faced, gripping thriller about a murder investigation in the midst of the Winter of Discontent. Now promoted to Detective Sergeant and working on the Murder Squad, we meet up with Jane again in , nearing the end of a night shift and looking forward to shortly taking a few days off. But then she and her partner receive a call — a young woman has been found, beaten and unconscious.

On arrival at the scene, Jane finds that the young woman is dead. But Jane is unconvinced the case is as clear-cut as it first seems. Following the evidence and her own gut feeling, she ultimately uncovers revelations that turn the case on its head. The details of the forensics are fascinating, most notably because of the time period in which the novel is set.

Another notable theme of the series is prejudice, both in wider society and within the police force itself. The sexism has been evident since Jane first joined the police and will continue through her police career. Jane continues to develop as a character; her confidence has grown and she is proving herself as a detective, while her independence is more evident than before. It proves to be pure escapism, as the three previous novels were, and I cannot wait to read Book 5! Aug 22, Marjorie rated it liked it. Multiple times through the book she directly challenges superior officers and in places completely undermines them.

No wonder she's been moved off the Dip Squad to yet another posting - this time in Peckham - to be honest I'm surprised she hasn't been pushed back to uniform for the rest of her career. The main plo 3. The main plot of this book deals with a series of murders that take place during the Winter Of Discontent of The setting is well evoked and it did bring back memories of that time, so maybe they coloured what I was reading and made it all richer than it really was.

It starts with the finding of a young woman who has been murdered and dumped in an alleyway, as the bodies start to stack up it is up to DS Tennison, DI Moran and DI Gibbs to find the killer or killers - after all they can't all be linked, or can they? The character development is good, as you would expect, but these are all deeply flawed characters. The only one who comes out of the pages as being a "decent person" is the Forensics chap Paul Lawrence. The best that can be said of everyone else is that they feel like real people with their own prejudices and peculiar little foibles that help inform their characters.

I did find that in this book I was becoming very exasperated with Jane Tennison and her obvious reluctance to follow procedure despite it being there for good reason. There was also a little too much made of hunches in solving the crimes which I find to be a frustrating and lazy plot device. What did spoil this book for me was the denouement. The killer s 's reasons for murder are all a little bit fuzzy and read to me like they were not really responsible for the atrocities but liked the idea of the infamy. Admittedly to kill another there has to be something not lining up as it does for the majority of the population but this is just so far fetched it did spoil the rest of the book for me.

It is left there and the assumption seems to be that their confession is to be believed but it left me with far more questions than answers. There is a good amount of time spent on procedural work and the inner workings of the investigation make for good reading and do propel the story along nicely. We are given little glimpses in to the private lives of Gibbs and Moran and a little more about Tennison.

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These are only fleeting snatches of time though and don't really serve to move the story or the characters along very much. I did sort of enjoy this book but I preferred it's predecessor Good Friday inordinately more. Aug 28, Robin Taylor rated it really liked it Shelves: Please see all of my reviews on my blog at www.

Newly promoted and assigned DS Jane Tennison is quick on the job when a woman is found murdered. Although new in rank, she certainly is not new in experience. Right in the middle of this case, yet another body is found. It appears that these murders might be connected and there is someone who could very well be a likely subject.

Both Jane and her team work feverishly to try and find the murderer. The story takes place i Please see all of my reviews on my blog at www. The story takes place in London , where women police officers were not well respected, even if they had a rank, such as a Detective Sergeant, Jane faces such prejudice. However, she is no nonsense and is quite a vigorous worker. These facts make her an enjoyable character in Murder Mile. Her hardworking nature belies the rather rude and ignorant behavior of some of her fellow officers. Another interesting facet of this book is that it is set at a time then known as the "Winter of Discontent", which was an extremely difficult time in London history, including a bad political climate.

This was in part responsible for the filth on the streets as is often mentioned in the novel. The tie-in to those times and the brutal murders discovered make the story a very interesting one. Murder Mile had a bit of a slow start for me, but truly gained traction by the second murder. By then, I was a bit more involved with Jane and the other characters. As a matter of fact, it was rather difficult to put down at this point, and I ended up reading this book in two sittings.

It was a rather gritty story, but that is exactly what I expect when it comes to reading crime fiction. Lynda La Plante kept me interested, especially during the investigative process while I remained in the dark as to who the killer was. This is the fourth in the Tennison series. Although I hadn't read the previous books, or have seen the connected television series, Prime Suspect, I was able to enjoy this as a standalone read.

I look forward to continuing this series and seeing the growth of Jane Tennison. The story centres on the story of a serial killer who is seemingly going after women and leaving them in a one mile radius which the media is quick to name "The Murder Mile". Then another body turns up, with a different MO and it seems that there is another killer on the loose. We follow the team as they try to catch the culprits before they can strike again.

I knew what I was getting when I won this book, as I am absolutely in love with Lynda's writing style. She is able to create characters an The story centres on the story of a serial killer who is seemingly going after women and leaving them in a one mile radius which the media is quick to name "The Murder Mile". She is able to create characters and a setting that is brilliant to read about, and I was completely hooked from the moment I started this book.

There were, however, a few times where the reader is cleverer than the detectives in the book and that can make for some irritating reading, especially when this continues over multiple chapters. I was also upset with the actions of some of the characters, as I felt they did not fit in with what I already knew about the character and it sort of grated that it was being used to create unnecessary, and obvious, red herrings.

The ending itself, with all the revelations coming to light, was perhaps the most obvious of La Plant's books I have read. It is predictable, and it is also one of the more disappointing revelations as I spent most of my time hoping I was wrong. It is, in my opinion, a workable solution however it lacks some of the more surprising and shocking elements that I have found in Lynda's writing before. I was disappointed with how it all came together and how it all ended, with the choices made meaning that I lost a little of the respect I had for the main characters and was ultimately frustrating.

That being said, it was still a good read and I am incredibly grateful for the opportunity to read this book. I would recommend it as part of the Tennison storyline but it is not as strong as some of its predecessors. Many thanks to Readers First and the publishers for sending me a copy of this book in return for an unbiased review Aug 21, Clare rated it really liked it Shelves: Murder Mile Is the fourth book featuring the young Jane Tenninson. Jane Is now a Detective Sergeant based at Peckham police station.

At the end of a boring night shift, Jane and her colleague were called to the dead body of a young woman found dumped in Bussey Alley. Excited by the investigation she volunteered to stay on duty and attend the postmortom. The Woman was stabbed multiple times and her face was With thanks to Netgalley and Zaffre for this ARC in exchange for an open and honest review. The Woman was stabbed multiple times and her face was skined to avoid identification on the body, Jane and the team cross checked her details with the missing person list with no success.

The same day an abandoned car was found, the police tried to trace the owner but but could not contact them. The son collected the car and found the body of his dead mother stuffed in the boot of the car. When another body is found, the media described the area as the murder mile.

Jane believes that the son murdered his wife, but how was he is he linked to the other victim?. I enjoyed the Lynda La Plants first three Tenninson novels. I was glad that Jane was working with old colleagues from previous investigations. Although Jane had been promoted to sergeant her bosses were still not prepared to listened to her gut instincts. This forced Jane at times to interview suspects unofficially and get herself into big trouble.

The story flowed nicely with short chapters to tempt me to read another chapter. The storyline was well crafted with plenty of suspects and red herrings. However I was a little disappointed with the confession because the killers motivation did not make sense to me. The ending did not spoil my overall enjoyment of the story though. Sep 27, Unseen Library rated it it was amazing. Rating of 4 to 4. Previously known as the Golden Mile due to its well-to-do shopping areas, the area is now in decline, a fact not helped by the garbage strikes besetting the entire city, ensuring that the entire area is covered rubbish and filth.

When the body of a young woman is found in the heart of Peckham, Jane and her team must investigate the suspicious circumstances surrounding her death. But when another body is found nearby, the possibility of a serial killer raises all sorts of problems. The media scrutinise the case and rename the area Murder Mile. Can Tennison catch this killer, or will they find a terrible and unexpected way to win? Click link for full review: An abridged version of this review ran in the Canberra Weekly on 27 September Or visit my blog at: Aug 03, Karen rated it it was amazing Shelves: Fighting to overcome the sexism that is lingering in the police force, Jane knows that she needs to tread carefully if she is going to find the killer before any more bodies are discovered.

This is now the fourth book in the Tennison series and I feel that we are now seeing signs of the Jane that we know and love from the Prime Suspect series. Her promotion to Sergeant has given her a bit more gravitas and, even though she is still dealing with the sexist attitudes of much of the force, she is now in a position to make people sit up and take notice. In Murder Mile, Lynda la Plante has encapsulated the unrest in Britain in the winter of when widespread strikes in the public sector helped lead the Conservative party, under the leadership of Margaret Thatcher, to victory in the general election.

The attention to detail such as this helps to create a very realistic setting, painting a clear image of the investigation. I feel that this would easily transfer to television, and I hope that, one day, we get the chance to watch it!

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In a time before a lot of the more modern detection techniques, it is good to see Jane having to rely on her own instincts to help her to solve the case. As she tried to make a connection between the victims, it was good to see Jane questioning the theories of her superiors, although her fear of not being taken seriously often led to her putting herself in danger.

Jane Tennision is at it again. Recently promoted to Woman Detective Sargent, she is still tough as nails. When a the body of a woman turns up in the streets strangled and left for dead, Jane is thrown into another investigation that is way more than meets the eye. This time the murderer is sick and twisted. When she closes in on the murderer, the stakes are high and she will have to tread lightly. I really have to give Jane credit.

I really a Jane Tennision is at it again. I really admire her. Being a woman in a male world makes her job harder than it should be. She constantly has to prove herself and they belittle her over and over. Even when this case ends, her career is still on the line. Constantly having to prove herself. I really enjoy her books. The characters are interesting and engaging. The amount of research she puts into her books make for great story telling. You feel as if you are there in the story, solving the crime with Jane. I really would like to see Jane get a love interest though.

She seems so lonely. I always pictured her hooking up with DCI Gibbs. Overall this book is a wonderful suspenseful read. It will keep you guessing till the very end. Just when you think you have it all figured out, something else happens. There are plenty of twists to keep the book interesting. So if you love a good mystery, then this book is for you.

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It will keep you on your toes and turning those pages. Murder Mile is a solid, well-written addition to the police procedural genre. Two murders, seemingly unconnected, occur on her patch and as the squad pieces together the clues to find the person or persons responsible, Jane is able to provide a perspective that leads to an arrest.

She still has to deal with the disdain of her some colleagu Murder Mile is a solid, well-written addition to the police procedural genre. She still has to deal with the disdain of her some colleagues, even to the bitter end, which is probably accurate for the times and hopefully not so much now. Throughout, you can see her growing into the role and glimpse that later Tennison of Prime Suspect. The book did a good job of capturing some of that atmosphere.

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