The Talisman (95 page)

Lynda La Plante

Backlash

Two unsolved murders. Three confessions. One suspect.

But is the man in DCI Anna Travis’s custody a serial killer . . . or just a compulsive liar?

It is late at night on a notorious council estate in east London when the police pull over a van. Inside, they discover the body of a young woman.

The driver confesses, not just to one murder – but to three.

Five years earlier, a 13-year-old girl disappeared in broad daylight on a busy London street. The unsolved case has haunted DCS James Langton ever since. But when the case is reopened, it falls to Anna to investigate and bring the killer to trial.

Meanwhile, the murder team begins is hard at work, verifying the details of the van driver’s confessions and desperately trying to uncover the identity of his second and third victims.

And then he changes his story . . .

Paperback ISBN 978-1-84983-336-3
Ebook ISBN 978-0-85720-185-0