Tennison - Lynda La Plante

The Kray twins are behind bars, but the streets of London are still rife with drugs, robbery and murder.

It is 1973 in the East End of London and a young WPC, Jane Tennison, joins the toughest ranks of the Hackney police force as a probationary officer.

When her first case comes in, a woman savagely beaten and strangled to death, Jane is thrown right in at the deep end.

The victim’s autopsy is just the beginning of Tennison’s harsh initiation into the criminal world