Lynda La Plante
Never one to rest on her laurels, Liverpool-born
screenwriter and author Lynda La Plante is following up the big screen adaptation
of her groundbreaking crime escapade Widows with a thrilling new chapter for
the feisty gangsters’ molls.
The popular six-part ITV series – featuring a group of
robbers’ widows who attempt a daring heist – became an instant hit in the 1980s
and was turned into a major film last year by Steve McQueen, director of the
award-winning movie 12 Years a Slave.
La Plante, one of the best-known British crime writers, is
herself no stranger to awards, with her original script for the much-acclaimed Prime
Suspect TV series featuring DCI Jane Tennison winning awards from BAFTA, Emmys,
British Broadcasting and the Royal Television Society.
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And now she is back with her four charismatic players – Dolly
Rawlins and her crafty, courageous female co-conspirators Linda, Shirley and
Bella – as they pick over their ill-gotten gains and prepare for a perilous fight
to the finish.
Dolly Rawlins, Linda Perelli and Shirley Miller were left
devastated when their armed robber husbands were blown to smithereens as a
security van heist went disastrously wrong. But, recruiting hooker Bella O’Reilly as their fourth gang
member, the widows – led by the indomitable Dolly – managed the impossible.
They pulled off another security van heist their husbands had been planning, using
career criminal and money launderer Harry Rawlins’ hidden cache of guns.
Now the women are hiding out and laundering some of their
money at a rented villa in Rio but, although they are technically rich, things
are far from easy.
Dolly, who suffered a series of miscarriages, has discovered
that her husband Harry isn’t dead and not only that, he had betrayed her with
another woman who is the mother of his child. In retaliation, Dolly has cleared
out Harry’s secret cash accounts in Rio but she can’t outwit him forever.
Harry is on the trail of the four women and he wants them to
pay… and he doesn’t just mean getting his hands on the money. The women can’t keep running. They have to get Harry out of
their lives for good but can they stay one step ahead of a criminal mastermind
who won’t hesitate to kill? With tensions rising between them all and Dolly hatching
a dangerous plan of her own, someone is inevitably going to die…
Expect drama, passion and deadly danger as the four women
race to collect their stolen money and the close bonds that have held them
together through thick and thin begin to fracture under the weight of suspicion,
jealousy and fear.
Big bad Harry is back with a vengeance – both literally and
metaphorically – and he is determined to track down his wife, principally by
dealing in lies, double-crossing and menace, and dishing out his own special
brand of violence.
Widows’ Revenge is a gripping page-turner… an action-packed,
fast-paced story brimming with La Plante’s sparkling dialogue, visual energy, satirical
northern humour, and some devilish plot twists that will leave readers rocking,
rolling and gasping for breath. Another rollercoaster ride with the queen of crime writing!
(Zaffre, paperback, £7.99)
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