Featured on The Book Show on Sky Arts on 8 December 2011.
Under the watchful eye of DCS James Langton, DCI Anna Travis takes
charge of an investigation for the first time. But is it purely a
missing person's case - or a full blown murder enquiry? 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. They still have no body and Anna is
under increasing pressure to make an arrest...
Lynda La Plante bestowed John Moores University with a creative writing scholarship in her hometown of Liverpool and is an honorary member of the British Film Institute. The British Academy of Film and Television Arts (BAFTA) has also awarded Lynda with the Dennis Potter Writers Award.
She was awarded a CBE in the 2008 Queen's Birthday Honours List (for services to Literature, Drama and to Charity), and was presented with the prestigious TV Spielfilm Award for her television adaptation of her novel Above Suspicion at the International Film and Television Festival Conference in Cologne. In 2009 Lynda was inducted into the Crime Thriller Awards Hall of Fame . Her novels have all been international bestsellers.
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Ben Schott born London 1974. The son of a neurologist and a nurse achieved a double First from Cambridge. Schott's Almanac was first published in 2005 and is now a bestselling reference book published annually. Discover Schott's Almanac
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