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Sacrifice
409 pages, Kindle Edition
Published March 12, 2026
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Lynda La Plante
142 books1,891 followersLynda La Plante, CBE (born Lynda Titchmarsh) is a British author, screenwriter, and erstwhile actress (her performances in Rentaghost and other programmes were under her stage name of Lynda Marchal), best known for writing the Prime Suspect television crime series.
Her first TV series as a scriptwriter was the six part robbery series Widows, in 1983, in which the widows of four armed robbers carry out a heist planned by their deceased husbands.
In 1991 ITV released Prime Suspect which has now run to seven series and stars Helen Mirren as DCI Jane Tennison. (In the United States Prime Suspect airs on PBS as part of the anthology program Mystery!) In 1993 La Plante won an Edgar Award from the Mystery Writers of America for her work on the series. In 1992 she wrote at TV movie called Seekers, starring Brenda Fricker and Josette Simon, produced by Sarah Lawson.
She formed her own television production company, La Plante Productions, in 1994 and as La Plante Productions she wrote and produced the sequel to Widows, the equally gutsy She's Out (ITV, 1995). The name "La Plante" comes from her marriage to writer Richard La Plante, author of the book Mantis and Hog Fever. La Plante divorced Lynda in the early 1990s.
Her output continued with The Governor (ITV 1995-96), a series focusing on the female governor of a high security prison, and was followed by a string of ratings pulling miniseries: the psycho killer nightmare events of Trial & Retribution (ITV 1997-), the widows' revenge of the murders of their husbands & children Bella Mafia (1997) (starring Vanessa Redgrave), the undercover police unit operations of Supply and Demand (ITV 1998), videogame/internet murder mystery Killer Net (Channel 4 1998) and the female criminal profiler cases of Mind Games (ITV 2001).
Two additions to the Trial and Retribution miniseries were broadcast during 2006.
Her first TV series as a scriptwriter was the six part robbery series Widows, in 1983, in which the widows of four armed robbers carry out a heist planned by their deceased husbands.
In 1991 ITV released Prime Suspect which has now run to seven series and stars Helen Mirren as DCI Jane Tennison. (In the United States Prime Suspect airs on PBS as part of the anthology program Mystery!) In 1993 La Plante won an Edgar Award from the Mystery Writers of America for her work on the series. In 1992 she wrote at TV movie called Seekers, starring Brenda Fricker and Josette Simon, produced by Sarah Lawson.
She formed her own television production company, La Plante Productions, in 1994 and as La Plante Productions she wrote and produced the sequel to Widows, the equally gutsy She's Out (ITV, 1995). The name "La Plante" comes from her marriage to writer Richard La Plante, author of the book Mantis and Hog Fever. La Plante divorced Lynda in the early 1990s.
Her output continued with The Governor (ITV 1995-96), a series focusing on the female governor of a high security prison, and was followed by a string of ratings pulling miniseries: the psycho killer nightmare events of Trial & Retribution (ITV 1997-), the widows' revenge of the murders of their husbands & children Bella Mafia (1997) (starring Vanessa Redgrave), the undercover police unit operations of Supply and Demand (ITV 1998), videogame/internet murder mystery Killer Net (Channel 4 1998) and the female criminal profiler cases of Mind Games (ITV 2001).
Two additions to the Trial and Retribution miniseries were broadcast during 2006.
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April 25, 2026
What a crime writer!
The flawed Jack Warr returns to head up his new Art Fraud division, in the sixth book in the series. The intricacies and technicalities of perpetuating these crimes have been so well investigated by the author, I felt as though I was ring side to the underbelly of forging.
The spiralling of Jack’s career, marriage and relationships is taken to a new height in this instalment and the shocking conclusion ties many of the earlier books together.
What an excellent crime read!
The flawed Jack Warr returns to head up his new Art Fraud division, in the sixth book in the series. The intricacies and technicalities of perpetuating these crimes have been so well investigated by the author, I felt as though I was ring side to the underbelly of forging.
The spiralling of Jack’s career, marriage and relationships is taken to a new height in this instalment and the shocking conclusion ties many of the earlier books together.
What an excellent crime read!
April 19, 2026
Wow Lynda La Plante what a fantastic story and book that was,didn’t think the Series about Detective Warr would get better but how wrong was I 10/10.
May 13, 2026
Absolutely dreadful.Zero stars.
This is the worst La Plante book I have ever read! It is full of typos,contradictory information and inaccurate facts! An editor is required! Jack bought a new tumble dryer at the very start of the book then later his mum says the dryer they got 8 years ago has broken and they needed a new one! ?? Then the book says that the nephew's mother was Bruno Jansen's first wife and that she was Swedish only later for it to say she was his SECOND wife!!! Then Jack decides NOT to visit the Bar Vitello as it was too commercial and went to a quiet little bar instead where he met the man from the plane. But later when they want his fingerprin from the beer glass the man gets dropped off at the Bar Vitello where he ' left Jack's glass with the owner'! He and Jack NEVER went to the Bar Vitello! And as if authorities who have remains of a body would match DNA to a pair of jeans found in a rucksack! These didn't necessarily belong to the dead person! This would prove nothing.Surely they would take the DNA from the actual body! I cannot believe such a major faux pas was made at such a crucial point in the book! The book was a complete disaster! The whole going to Sicily served no purpose whatsoever. Convoluted and nonsensical.Time to retire if this is the rubbish being churned out. GET A PROOFREADER.
This is the worst La Plante book I have ever read! It is full of typos,contradictory information and inaccurate facts! An editor is required! Jack bought a new tumble dryer at the very start of the book then later his mum says the dryer they got 8 years ago has broken and they needed a new one! ?? Then the book says that the nephew's mother was Bruno Jansen's first wife and that she was Swedish only later for it to say she was his SECOND wife!!! Then Jack decides NOT to visit the Bar Vitello as it was too commercial and went to a quiet little bar instead where he met the man from the plane. But later when they want his fingerprin from the beer glass the man gets dropped off at the Bar Vitello where he ' left Jack's glass with the owner'! He and Jack NEVER went to the Bar Vitello! And as if authorities who have remains of a body would match DNA to a pair of jeans found in a rucksack! These didn't necessarily belong to the dead person! This would prove nothing.Surely they would take the DNA from the actual body! I cannot believe such a major faux pas was made at such a crucial point in the book! The book was a complete disaster! The whole going to Sicily served no purpose whatsoever. Convoluted and nonsensical.Time to retire if this is the rubbish being churned out. GET A PROOFREADER.
May 1, 2026
Loved the Previous Books in this series but ........
I have read each of the previous books in this series with delight and admiration. The author created a Detective who was talented but with many flaws. I was drawn into both his professional and family life, each character, becoming an important addition to the story of Jack Warr.
I am really sad about how this book developed and how Jack became such a very unlikeable person, one you definitely wouldn't want to spend a few hours with. For me, Jack, always found a way through the moral dilemmas he faced but others might see it very differently.
Perhaps the author intended the readers to make this transition from admiring Jack, his cleverness, his sense of duty and love of his family to one where we can't muster an iota of sympathy for him.
I now simply don't care about what happens next to him and I am not certain that I want to read any more about him and his descent into the cess pool his life has become.
I have read each of the previous books in this series with delight and admiration. The author created a Detective who was talented but with many flaws. I was drawn into both his professional and family life, each character, becoming an important addition to the story of Jack Warr.
I am really sad about how this book developed and how Jack became such a very unlikeable person, one you definitely wouldn't want to spend a few hours with. For me, Jack, always found a way through the moral dilemmas he faced but others might see it very differently.
Perhaps the author intended the readers to make this transition from admiring Jack, his cleverness, his sense of duty and love of his family to one where we can't muster an iota of sympathy for him.
I now simply don't care about what happens next to him and I am not certain that I want to read any more about him and his descent into the cess pool his life has become.
May 4, 2026
brilliant
I was certainly not expecting the series to end like it has/did. I would have loved another book or at least 1 more chapter for Jack to get in contact with Maggie.
Definitely a must read series!
I was certainly not expecting the series to end like it has/did. I would have loved another book or at least 1 more chapter for Jack to get in contact with Maggie.
Definitely a must read series!
May 12, 2026
Better and Better
This book got better and better the further into it you went. The details at first, a little overwhelming on a subject I knew little about, and then coming together in an action filled ending.
This book got better and better the further into it you went. The details at first, a little overwhelming on a subject I knew little about, and then coming together in an action filled ending.
April 11, 2026
2.5/5
May 3, 2026
Brilliant final Jack Warr book.
Did Not Finish
May 26, 2026Enjoyed this series so far but just couldn’t get into this one unfortunately
June 2, 2026
I did not enjoy this book as much as Lynda’s other books.Somebody in the ‘art’ world would enjoy it more.
June 17, 2026
I really enjoyed this series and all the other books but was actually a bit disappointed with how this one ended
June 27, 2026
End of the road for Jack and it shows in this book a very disappointing ending - two and a half stars not on your game here Lynda.
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