would like to thank Netgalley and Bonnier Zaffre for an advance copy of Good Friday, the third novel in the Tennison series, set in London, 1975. This author is one of my all time favourites and yet again she has come up with another winner.

Newly minted Detective Jane Tennison helps solve a spate of bombings by the IRA. Well written.

Absolutely brilliant, I love Lynda LaPlante! This book brings back memories for me of living in London in the 70's when the IRA was carrying out a bombing campaign in London. A coded warning was usually given so that there was time to evacuate but not enough time to defuse the bomb. In this story, Jane Tennison has just passed a CID course and is now a detective-constable. She is very keen to be part of The Flying Squad, known as "The Sweeney", but it was a male dominated career and Jane was going to have a tough time. She is naive and makes some big blunders, but ultimately she plays a big part in preventing a huge bomb going off. There is lots of suspense and a love interest too.

Not one of her best, the book reads more like a script for TV. The plot is reasonable (if predictable) but there is too much unnecessary information that does nothing to enhance it or the characters. I have always enjoyed this author work but I am left disappointed y this particular book.

I have been meaning to read a Lynda La Plante novel for some tine having always enjoyed her television adaptions such as 'Prime Suspect'. I found this such an easy novel to read with the characters being so familiar to me due to the television production and it made a very good read.

The book is set during Tenyson's early career when the IRA were subjecting London to a terrifying bombing campaign. Jane Tennison while on her way to court one morning is caught up in a bomb blast that leaves several people dead, and many horribly injured. She is a key witness, but is adamant that she can't identify the bomber. When a photograph appears in the newspapers, showing Jane assisting the injured at the scene, it puts her and her family at risk from IRA retaliation.
'Good Friday' is the eagerly awaited date of the annual formal CID dinner, due to take place at St Ermin's Hotel. Hundreds of detectives and their wives will be there. It's the perfect target.
Jane Tenyson is an excellent character both in the television series played by Helen Mirren and also in the actual books where it is easy to picture Helen Mirren as the lead character. I found this book an excellent read while relaxing on holiday and fully intend to read both more of Lynda La Plante's books as well as revisiting the television series.
I would like to thank both Net Galley and Bonnier Zaffre for supplying a copy of this novel in exchange for an honest review.

Good Friday is yet another winner from Lynda la Plante, we are back at the start of Jane Tennisons career, this time its 1976 when the IRA had committed many bomb attacks around England particularly in London. Being stationed in London myself at this time Ms Plante has the tension and atmosphere spot on, as with today the fear of a terrorist attack was never far from our minds.
Yet again Jane is being penalised for being a woman, and is still been treated as an inferior by colleague and senior officers.
This story involves an IRA sleeper working to befriend Jane to obtain information so a bomb can be planted to cause maximum damage to the police, but who that sleeper is ...well no spoilers here and you are kept guessing.
A great story, which would make a great TV drama although I wonder if due to political correctness and the 'good Friday ' agreement it could be shown. Either way a really engrossing and enjoyable read.
My thanks to net galley and publisher for opportunity to review this book honestly.

Excellent book. Great storyline and characters. A real page turner. I would recommend this book.

II would like to thank Netgalley and Bonnier Zaffre for an advance copy of Good Friday, the third novel in the Tennison series, set in London, 1975.

Jane, determined to do well in her career, gets a transfer to the dip squad, a specialist team which concentrates on catching pickpockets. On her way to her first court case in her new job she gets caught up in a bomb at Covent Garden station and catches a glimpse of the bomber.

I enjoyed Good Friday as Ms La Plante knows how to write a good story and hold the reader's interest. I'm less sure about the plot. It is hard to believe that so many things could happen to one officer over the course of a couple of weeks.

I like the young Jane who is young and naive but eager to learn. Admittedly I haven't read any of the Prime Suspects novels but I did watch Helen Mirren in the dim and distant past. Her Tennison is hard, uncompromising and difficult to like and while I can see touches of the future in the young Jane she is very likeable. Her uncertainty about what to do in new circumstances and her anxiety about losing her job are all things we can identify with and remember. Ms La Plante does it well. She is a touching figure, smart but lonely and adrift in a man's world. I think Ms La Plante missed a trick when it came to portraying this man's world. There is very little of the rampant sexism and chauvinism that existed at the time in the novel.

Good Friday is a straightforward, entertaining read with plenty of action which I can recommend.